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Sharad Pawar silent on whether Ajit will become deputy CM

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday kept mum on whether senior party leader and his nephew Ajit Pawar would become deputy chief minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra.Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would soon take decision on cabinet expansion, Pawar said at a press conference here.Asked about Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s reported statement that Ajit Pawar would become deputy CM in the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP government in the state when the cabinet is expanded, the NCP chief refused to make any clarification.”I have read Raut’s statement. But I am…

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CAC to be formed in next couple of days to appoint selectors: Ganguly

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BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Friday said that a Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) will be formed in the next couple of days to announce the new selection panel on a three-year tenure. Ganguly said the CAC will be appointed only for one meeting to decide the selectors as the appointment of the men’s head coach has already been done by the previous panel led by former captain Kapil Dev. “The CAC will be appointed in a couple of days. It will only be for one meeting to appoint the selectors…

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Deepika, Siddhant and Ananya to star in Shakun Batra’s next

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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday have been roped in as the leads in director Shakun Batra’s next directorial. The yet-to-be-titled project will mark next step in Batra’s collaboration with producer-director Karan Johar after “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2012) and “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). Described as a relationship drama, Shakun said the film will see its character finding themselves “stuck in a morally ambiguous zone”. “I have had a wonderful journey with Karan and his production house for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to get…

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Trump seeks rapid exoneration in Senate after impeachment

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US President Donald Trump pressed his Republican allies Thursday to exert rigid control of his Senate trial and ensure a swift exoneration, a day after he was impeached in a historic rebuke by the House of Representatives. A bitter fight looms over the coming trial, expected to begin as early as the second week of January, with Senate leaders already drawing battle lines over the evidence that will be allowed. But its fate was left in limbo late Thursday when the Senate’s powerful majority leader, Mitch McConnell signalled the standoff…

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Rupee opens 12 paise down at 71.15 against US dollar

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The rupee opened on a weak note and fell 12 paise to 71.15 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday amid rising crude oil prices and strengthening of the US dollar vis-a-vis other currencies overseas. Forex traders said cautious opening in domestic equities weighed on the local unit. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the rupee opened weak at 71.15 showing a decline of 12 paise over its previous closing. The Indian rupee on Thursday had closed at 71.03 against the US dollar. Traders said sustained foreign fund inflows…

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Dense fog in Delhi delays over 100 trains, 10 flights; air quality in ‘severe’ category

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Rail and air traffic was affected as visibility dipped considerably due to dense fog that enveloped Delhi on Friday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 6.4 degrees Celsius. Relative humidity was at 95 per cent, at 8.30 am. Due to low temperature and high humidity, the air quality was in the “severe” category in the morning. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, Delhi’s AQI at 8 am was at 430. Visibility was zero at Palam and 300 metres at Safdarjung, at 5.30 am. Later, visibility improved at…

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Unnao rape case: Kuldeep Sengar to remain in jail for life; pay Rs 25L exemplary fine

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Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for entire life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him for life. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case and it has to be paid within a month. “This court does not find any mitigating circumstance, Sengar was public servant and betrayed people’s faith,” the judge said while declining the plea for lenient approach in sentencing him. The conduct of 53-year-old…

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Why is Virat so animated? Please ask him, says Pollard

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India skipper Virat Kohli has been a bit more charged up than he usually is during the ongoing West Indies series and rival captain Kieron Pollard is “clueless” as to what’s been the trigger. During the T20 series, Kohli’s imitation of Kesrick Williams’ ‘notebook tick’ celebration was ‘television gold’, and then he seemed agitated when on-field umpire Shaun George referred Ravindra Jadeja’s run-out in the first ODI in Chennai. In fact, Kohli was very animated after Pollard’s first-ball dismissal. “You have to ask him why he is so animated. I…

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Deepika, Siddhant and Ananya to star in Shakun Batra’s next

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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday have been roped in as the leads in director Shakun Batra’s next directorial. The yet-to-be-titled project will mark next step in Batra’s collaboration with producer-director Karan Johar after “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2012) and “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). Described as a relationship drama, Shakun said the film will see its character finding themselves “stuck in a morally ambiguous zone”. “I have had a wonderful journey with Karan and his production house for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to get…

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Sensex, Nifty turn choppy on tepid global cues

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Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty started on a choppy note on Thursday as global investors turned cautious over US President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Retreating from its record high, the 30-share BSE index was trading 24.89 points or 0.06 per cent lower at 41,533.68 in opening session. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty slipped 7.60 points or 0.06 per cent to 12,214.30. Yes Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack falling up to 2.46 per cent, followed by IndusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma, HDFC, Tata Steel and Bharti Airtel.…

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