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Sandeep Kumar, Arjun Narendran notch up impressive wins

July 21, 2018 strong

Chennai, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS): Sandeep Kumar and Arjun Narendran chalked up impressive wins in the MRF F1600 and Indian Touring Cars categories respectively in the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI National Racing Championship at Sriperumbudur near here today. Starting from pole position, Chennai’s Sandeep Kumar, was largely untroubled though he trailed Nirmal Umashankar briefly before moving into the lead midway through the first of the eight-lap race. Championship leader Ashwin Datta, 19, who had scored a triple in the previous round at Coimbatore, got stuck in the…

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Key to Root’s ODI success was picking Kuldeep from his hand: Tendulkar

July 21, 2018 strong

New Delhi, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) England Test captain Joe Root may have decoded how to tackle chinaman Kuldeep Yadav but Sachin Tendulkar feels that the young wrist spinner could still prove to be a handful if the home team prepares dry surfaces for the upcoming five Test series against India, starting August 1. “Whatever I saw on television, Root picked Kuldeep from his hand and did that really well. Now Kuldeep’s wrist action is a complex one and once he lands the ball, I don’t think too many batsmen…

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Aamir Khan to be chief guest at Indian Screenwriters Conference

July 21, 2018 strong

Mumbai, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Superstar Aamir Khan will be the chief guest at the Indian Screenwriters Conference (ISC). The fifth edition of the conference will be held from August 1 to 3 at St Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra. Noted journalist and Padma Shri awardee Vinod Dua will be delivering the keynote address at the inaugural day of the conference, whose theme this year is ‘Where Mind Is Without Fear’. The biennial event is organised by the Screenwriters Association. The event will see panel discussions on various topics which will be…

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Now, box office war between Kangana and Hrithik next January

July 21, 2018 strong

Mumbai, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Actors Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan, who have been engaged in a public war of words over their alleged affair, will battle it out at the box office as their films are scheduled to hit the cinema houses in January next year. Kangana’s one of the most ambitious projects “Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi” is set to clash with Hrithik’ “Super 30” on January 25, 2019. “Manikarnika” was apparently set to release this year in April and was later pushed to August 15 and then…

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19-year-old sentenced to death for raping infant in Alwar

July 21, 2018July 21, 2018 strong

Jaipur, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) A 19-year old youth was today given death penalty by a court for raping a seven-month-old child in Alwar district of Rajasthan in May, the first such sentencing in the state after a law entailing capital punishment to those convicted of raping a child below 12 years of age came into force, according to police. A special court hearing cases of SC/ST Act and POCSO Act in Alwar sentenced to death Pintu, who was found guilty of raping the infant in Laxmangarh area in Alwar…

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Herald case: Vora moves court seeking to restrain Swamy

July 21, 2018 strong

New Delhi, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Senior Congress leader Motilal Vora today approached a Delhi court seeking to restrain BJP leader Subramanian Swamy from sharing information about the National Herald case on social media. Swamy has filed the case against Vora, Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi and others. In an application moved before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, Vora said he has “time and again noticed that the complainant (Swamy) has been putting up various posts on social media regarding the daily proceedings of the instant case for…

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South Indian Bank net profit nosedives in Q1

July 21, 2018 strong

Kochi, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Kerala-based South Indian Bank has declared a net profit of Rs 23.04 crores for the first quarter of the financial year 2018-19 as against Rs 101.47 crores during the corresponding period last year. In a press release here, the bank said the reason for the decline in profit was the reduction in the Treasury trading profit by Rs 73 crores and incremental MTM (mark to market) provision in the Treasury Book by Rs 41 crore owing to adverse market conditions, besides incremental one-time employee cost…

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Govt slashes GST rate on several products

July 21, 2018 strong

New Delhi, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Conceding a year long demand, sanitary pads today exempted from GST as the GST Council reduced tax rates on an array of daily use appliances and products. While GST tax on sanitary pads was cut from 12 per cent to zero, rakhis were exempted from the tax, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters here. “Sanitary napkins exempted from GST,” Goyal said. Among items on which GST was reduced include footwear, small televisions, water heater, electric ironing machines, refrigerators, lithium ion batteries, hair dryers, vacuum…

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Lawyers meet jailed Sharifs

July 21, 2018 strong

Islamabad, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Lawyers for Pakistan’s jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and his son-in-law, today met them to discuss the appeal against their conviction. Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London. They were later taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Both Sharif and Maryam have been sentenced by the court to 10 and seven years in prison,…

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CIA: China is waging a ‘quiet kind of cold war’ against US

July 21, 2018 strong

Aspen (US), Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) China is waging a “quiet kind of cold war” against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia has said. Beijing doesn’t want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the US in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia. “I would argue … that…