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Harassment stories anger me: Raveena Tandon on #MeToo

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Supporting India’s #MeToo movement, Raveena Tandon says even though she has not been a victim of sexual harassment, the countless stories of ill-treatment of women anger her.   The 43-year-old actor said she has been through “professional harassment” in the film industry and hence understands the trauma.   “I was never sexually harassed as I was not the one to just take it. I would give it back. But I can imagine the trauma that the young girls go through. It is so sad and disheartening to hear these stories. It angers…

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India will hit back with ‘double the force’ if its sovereignty is challenged: PM

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India never eyes anyone else’s territory but will hit back with “double the force” if its sovereignty is ever challenged, Prime Minister Modi said Sunday at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of proclamation of the Azad Hind government by Subhas Chandra Bose. He also said his government is working towards providing the armed fores with better technology and latest weapons even as efforts are underway to make the lives of soldiers easier by extending them with better facilities. Modi said his government took decisions such as carrying out…

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US will pull out of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia: Trump

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President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will pull out of an arms control treaty with Russia dating from the cold war that limited the number of missiles in the two nations, accusing Moscow of violating the deal.The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was one of those agreements and is set to expire in the next two years. The 1987 pact helps protect the security of the US and its allies in Europe and the Far East.It prohibits the United States and Russia from possessing, producing or test-flying a…

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Goa global investors’ meet with focus on start-ups in Dec: Prabhu

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Global investors will meet in Goa in December to help finance the start-up community in the state, Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said Sunday.    He said the Centre was thinking of making Goa as the start-up and logistics hub to create more jobs and that it will also promote agricultural export from the coastal state.  “One of the problems faced by start-ups is finance. We have called all global players who are into financing. This event, to be held on December 7, will bring in global players for investment in…

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No insurance cover to persons suffering from congenital anomalies: HC seeks IRDAI explanation

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The Delhi High Court has asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) to “explain the reasonableness” of not granting insurance cover to people suffering from congenital anomalies.    “What is the objection to giving insurance cover to them (people suffering from congenital anomalies),” a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the IRDAI and sought its response before the next date of hearing on December 17.  “Give the justification for such exclusion,” the court said to the insurance regulator.  The bench also issued notices to…

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Ed Moses backs calls for probe into WADA bullying claims

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Athletics great Ed Moses says he was told to “shut up” at a meeting of world anti-doping chiefs as he backed calls Friday for an investigation into bullying claims at the organisation.Moses, chair of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said a “hostile atmosphere” was “increasingly becoming the norm in the global anti-doping cauldron”.His comments, in an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, follow allegations by Beckie Scott, chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Athlete Committee, that she was “bullied” by some WADA officials over her opposition to reinstating Russia’s anti-doping agency.Scott,…

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I know I’ve become a star but don’t want to believe it: Ayushmann

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Six years and nearly a dozen films later, Ayushmann Khurrana says his aim is to be consistent with his choices by retaining his innocence towards the craft.Ayushmann, who made his debut with “Vicky Donor” in 2012, has featured in several slice-of-life films, including “Dum Laga Ke Haisha” and “Shubh Mangal Savdhan”. His first thriller “Andhadhun”, directed by Sriram Raghavan, is the best reviewed film of the year. He has followed it up with “Badhaai Ho”, which is garnering positive response. “I approach all my films as my first. If you carry…

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Reliance Industries shares slump 7% post Q2 results

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Shares of Reliance Industries Friday slumped 7 per cent despite the company reporting its highest ever quarterly net profit in the July-September quarter.The stock opened lower and declined further by 6.59 per cent to Rs 1,073.15 on BSE.At NSE, shares of the company dived 7 per cent to Rs 1,070.25.In terms of equity volume, 10.50 lakh shares of the company were traded on BSE and over one crore shares changed hands at NSE during the morning trade. Reliance Industries Wednesday reported its highest ever quarterly net profit of Rs 9,516…

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Trump threatens to close US-Mexico border over migrant ‘onslaught’

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US President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the “onslaught” of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed opposition Democrats.The attack comes less than three weeks before midterm elections where Trump’s Republicans are fighting to retain control of Congress, and as thousands of migrants from impoverished Honduras were marching north through Guatemala toward the United States.”I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our…

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Not Cong, BJP flay Kerala government for bringing activists to Sabarimala

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The opposition Congress and BJP Friday hit out at the Left government in Kerala for allegedly extending support to bring women activists to Sabarimala temple, hurting the sentiments of devotees.They also alleged the police gave one of the women, who climbed to the hill shrine amid heavy security, their official uniform and helmet.The two women, identified as a journalist from Hyderabad and a Kochi-based activist, trekked Sabarimala and reached a few metres away from the holy 18 steps with police escort but had to return due to massive protest by…

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