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New battle in Old Blighty: Upbeat India gear up for tough English test

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Manchester, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) Their supremacy in shorter formats is redoubtable but India will have their task cut out against a vastly improved England in the opening T20 International in what will be a defining summer for Virat Kohli and his team. While India has been a consistent limited overs side during the past decade, England have finally found their mojo in ODIs and T20s, courtesy a group of fantastic limited overs players like Jos Buttler, Jason Roy and Ben Stokes. With the 2019 ODI World Cup less than…

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Players question men’s doubles combinations for Asian Games

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) The AITA selection committee has erred by not picking two specialists doubles teams for the Asian Games, feel a number of players, who questioned veteran Leander Paes’ pairing with Sumit Nagal. The players though backed AITA’s decision to team Rohan Bopanna with Divij Sharan, as was requested by the top two players in the country. Players inside top-100 — Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja — and N Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan, who have earned their maiden Grand Slam debut, have all voiced concern…

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Everything happened by chance: Ram Gopal Varma on 20 years of ‘Satya’

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Mumbai, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) “Satya” is considered a milestone in contemporary Indian cinema and two decades after delivering the acclaimed film, director Ram Gopal Varma credits the success of the project to chance. The process started with an aim to make an action film — Varma had already made ‘Shiva’ — but not a movie on the underworld. “Everything in ‘Satya’ was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location and the film…

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I treat my gangster characters as humans, says Nawazuddin

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Mumbai, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui says the reason for him being convincing in gangster roles is that he looks at the characters through a human lens. Siddiqui shot to fame with his portrayal of local goon Faizal Khan in Anurag Kashyap’s “Gangs of Wasseypur”. The actor says he has played a gangster four times in his career — in “Munna Michael”, “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz”, among others — and has never treated the roles similarly. “I have never done a gangster role thinking of it as one. I think…

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State, Board must protect Vaishno Devi shrine and environment: SC

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today took note of the problem of pollution in the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and the surrounding areas and made it clear that the Jammu and Kashmir government and the shrine board would have to “protect and preserve” both. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta also asked them to protect the pony and mule owners, who are operating there for a long time ferrying devotees to and from the shrine, and look into issues of their…

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No tree felling in South Delhi colonies till further orders: NGT

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) Not a single tree would be cut and status quo be maintained on tree felling till further orders in seven South Delhi colonies by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the National Buildings Construction Corporation, the National Green Tribunal directed today. A bench headed by Acting NGT Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, NBCC, Central Pollution Control Board, Central Public Works Department, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and others, asking them to file their responses…

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Rupee hits near 5-yr low of 68.80 a dollar on macro worries

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Mumbai, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) The battered rupee today suffered yet another blow by plunging 34 paise to end at a near five-year low of 68.80 against the buoyant US dollar in the midst of weak global trends and concerns on macro-economic front. This is the level last seen on 28 August, 2013. With very little chance of RBI intervention, panic dollar demand from importers and speculative traders sent the home currency sinking to a low of 68.81 in late afternoon deals. Although the initial gains had been short-lived. It…

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Exports seem to have good performance in June: Prabhu

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu today said early data indicate that exports have registered a “good performance” in June despite volatility in global markets. The official export numbers for the month of June will be released on July 15. “Despite huge volatility in global markets, when large exporting countries are facing challenges in exports, our exports for month of June again have registered good performance as per early compilation,” Prabhu said in a series of tweets. The country’s merchandise exports recorded 20.18 per cent growth…

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More than 270,000 displaced by southern Syria fighting: UN

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Amman, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) A regime offensive in southern Syria has forced more than 270,000 people from their homes, the United Nations said today. “We were expecting the number of displaced in southern Syria to reach 200,000, but it has already exceeded 270,000 people in record time,” said Mohammad Hawari, the spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Amman. Nearly two weeks of ferocious air strikes and barrel bombing have seen regime forces retake swathes of rebel-held territory in the southern province of Daraa.

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Islamic State claims attack on Sikhs, Hindus in Afghanistan

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Kabul, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) The Islamic State group today claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus. The bomber targeted a delegation from the minority communities as it was travelling to the governor’s residence in the eastern city of Jalalabad yesterday for a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani. Avtar Singh Khalsa, a longtime leader of the Sikh community, was among those killed. Another 20 people were wounded. In a statement released today, the IS said it had targeted…

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