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British PM ‘irritated’ by leadership speculation

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British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was “irritated” by speculation about a leadership contest as she slammed former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, seen as her most likely challenger.The centre-right Conservative Party’s leader said she was focused on securing a Brexit deal rather than her own future, in a BBC television interview marking the six-month countdown to Britain’s departure from the European Union.May blasted Johnson for using “completely inappropriate” language when he described her Brexit blueprint as putting Britain in a “suicide vest”.Asked about her plans to stay in…

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Mob lynching in name of cow vigilantism ‘blot on democracy’:Mayawati

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Terming mob lynching in the name of cow vigilantism as a “blot on democracy”, BSP supremo Mayawati Sunday accused the BJP governments oflaxity and indifference on the issue.”The increasing tendency of indulging in mob lynching in the name of cow vigilantism in the BJP-ruled states is a blot on democracy, yet the governments are exercising laxity and are being indifferent to it,” Mayawati told reporters here.”These activities of the BJP governments (against the Dalits, tribals, backwards, Muslims and Christians) are going on since inception and are result of the BJP’s…

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20 lakh people join modified JanDhan scheme, total account holders 32.61 cr

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As many as 20 lakh people have joined the modified Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY), taking the total number of account holders in the flagship financial inclusion programme to 32.61 crore as on September 5, according to finance ministry data.The government earlier this month relaunched PMJDY as an open-ended scheme with higher insurance cover and double the overdraft (OD) facility. The Union Cabinet decided to continue the scheme beyond the four-year period ended August 14 with an aim to take the formal banking system from “every household to every adult”. During…

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CBI charge sheet against Mallya likely in a month, bank officials may be included

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Many senior bank officials who had dealt with loans given to liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines may be named as accused in a CBI charge sheet which is likely to be filed within a month, sources said.This would be first charge sheet in the case pertaining to loans of over Rs 6000 crore given to Kingfisher by a consortium of 17 banks led by State Bank of India which alone had an exposure of Rs 1600 crore.The agency has already filed a charge sheet against Mallya last year in…

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Serena Williams talks fashion, not fouls at Las Vegas event

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Serena Williams talked about her fashion business and her family, but not tennis fouls during an appearance before a business trade group in Las Vegas.The 23-time Grand Slam champion wasn’t asked about gender equality in sports or an argument she had last weekend with the chair umpire at her U.S. Open finals match in New York during about 25 minutes onstage with Sarah Robb O’Hagan, chief executive of Flywheel Sports, at the National Retail Federation trade show.Williams, who took no questions from the audience, said previously she felt she had…

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Bradley Cooper talks about sexual harassment allegations against producer Jon Peters

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Actor Bradley Cooper, who is making his directorial debut with the musical drama, “A Star Is Born”, has addressed the resurfaced allegations of sexual harassment against one-time producer Jon Peters.A report by Jezebel had claimed that Peters, who produced the 1976 version of ‘A Star Is Born’ starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, has been sued for sexual harassment at least five times, with some of the suits settled out of court.In an interview with NPR, Cooper, 43, said he would have taken a different approach to adapting the film…

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Trump, Pompeo bash ex-Secretary of State Kerry on Iran talks

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unloaded Friday on his Obama-era predecessor John Kerry for “actively undermining” US policy on Iran by meeting several times recently with the Iranian foreign minister, who was his main interlocutor in the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. In unusually blunt and caustic language, Pompeo said Kerry’s meetings with Mohammad Javad Zarif were “unseemly and unprecedented” and “beyond inappropriate.” President Donald Trump had late Thursday accused Kerry of holding “illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to…

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Little point in engaging Opposition on Rafale deal, says Def Min

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Amid a political furore over the multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has suggested it is futile to engage opposition parties on the issue when all facts have been already placed before Parliament.She also alleged that the Opposition has “misled” the country and thrown unsubstantiated allegations on a sensitive issue concerning India’s defence preparedness. She made the comments on Thursday during an interaction with PTI journalists. On Saturday, the Defence Ministry said Sitharaman had not said that the opposition does not deserve to be engaged.Sitharaman said…

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Government Announces Measures To Stabilise Rupee

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A Singapore-based forex dealer said the measures would not do much to bolster the rupee.  The Indian government late on Friday announced a slew of steps aimed at stemming a steep decline in the rupee, which has fallen rapidly this year, and it left the door open to announcing more measures. After an economic review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s finance minister said the government plans to take measures to cut down “non-necessary” imports, ease overseas borrowing norms for the manufacturing sector and relax rules around banks…

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Anger, vendetta of aggrieved persons shouldn’t take advantage of dowry law: SC

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The Supreme Court has said “anger” and “vendetta” of an aggrieved person should not take advantage of the legal provision on dowry harassment and harass the other side espousing the principle of sympathy. The court’s observation came on a verdict modifying its earlier order of stopping immediate arrests in cases registered under Section 498-A of the IPC which relates to the offence of subjecting a married woman to cruelty. “The courts remain constantly alive to the situation that though no war takes place, yet neither anger nor vendetta of the…

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