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Surprised that there are questions on Dhoni’s batting everyday: Bangar

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India’s batting coach Sanjay Bangar Monday joined the players in backing Mahendra Singh Dhoni and expressed surprise that the veteran is frequently criticised for his strike rate.Dhoni scored 42 off 31 balls against England in the World Cup on Sunday, but many questioned his lack of intent during the death overs of a game that India lost by 31 runs.”I’m surprised that this question continues to come up every now and then. He’s doing the job for the team and overall we’re very happy with the intent he’s batting with,”…

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President Sirisena accuses EU of undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty

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President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday accused the European Union of challenging Sri Lanka’s sovereignty by threatening with tariffs if capital punishment is re-introduced in the country after 43 years.Last week, President Sirisena signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts, ending a four-decade-long moratorium on the capital punishment in the country.Addressing the National Drug Prevention Day event here, Sirisena underlined the importance of his campaign to combat the drug related crimes in the island nation.The President said that the 28-member European Union bloc has threatened to withdraw the EU…

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ONGC discovers 230 mn tonnes of oil reserves: Pradhan

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State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has discovered over 230 million tonnes of in-place oil reserves in the last three years, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday.In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, he said India’s top oil and gas producer ONGC as on April 1, 2019, has in place oil reserves of 459.84 million tonnes.These reserves are spread over 16 assets it currently extracts oil from, he said.”ONGC has established 230.29 million tones of oil initial-in-place during the last three years,” he added.The company…

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Films like ‘Coolie no 1’ in minority now: Farhad Samji

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Writter Farhad Samji, who is writing the script of “Coolie No 1” remake, says mainstream commercial comedies are in minority today. “Coolie No 1” is an adaptation of the original of the same name, which starred Govinda and Karisma Kapoor in the lead. It was directed by Varun’s father, filmmaker David Dhawan.David is returning to direct the new movie featuring Varun Dhawan. “‘Coolie No 1’ is a fairly easy film with no frills attached. The audiences know it’s a David Dhawan film with his son so they’ll come for the punches, the…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SC judge recuses herself from hearing pleas against Bombay HC order on laws on beef

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Supreme Court judge Justice Indu Malhotra Monday recused herself from hearing a batch of appeals and cross-appeals challenging a Bombay High Court verdict which held that mere possession of beef of animals slaughtered outside the state cannot invite criminal action. A bench headed by Justice A M Sapre said that Justice Malhotra was recusing herself from the hearing as she had earlier appeared as a lawyer in the case.Now the petitions would be listed before an “appropriate bench” by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.The apex court, on August 17, 2016, had sought…

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AN-32 aircraft fleet is airworthy: Defence Minister

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The AN-32 plane of Indian Air Force that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh killing all 13 personnel on board was completely airworthy, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed Rajya Sabha on Monday.He also said that the accident rate per 10,000 flying hours in the Air Force has come down from 1.04 in 1999 to 0.33 currently.Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, he termed the accident as unfortunate but made it clear that there was no problem with the airworthiness of the aircraft.He informed the House that a total of 13 people…

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It was a full team effort: Sarfaraz on Aghanistan win

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Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed said the close win over Afghanistan was a “full team effort,” after his side side pulled off a dramatic three-wicket victory here to stay alive in the World Cup.There were contributions from Babar Azam (45) and Imam-ul Haq (36) at the top order while chasing a modest 228 on Saturday, but it required a special innings from Imad Wasim, who took Pakistan to the finishing line with an unbeaten 49-run knock under pressure.”It is a great win for us. Not an easy pitch to bat on,…

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Trump steps into North Korea in historic first

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Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first Sunday as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world’s last Cold War frontier.Moments after becoming the only sitting US president to set foot inside North Korea, Trump brought Kim back over the dividing line for a meeting where they agreed to start working-level talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. Trump also said he had invited the young leader to the White House “anytime he wants to do it”.“It was an…

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Glad people are taking me seriously as an actor: Kriti Sanon

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She made her foray into Bollywood with a cliche love story “Heropanti” and went on to feature in multi-starrer “Dilwale”, but Kriti Sanon’s acting skills came to notice with her performance as Bitti in “Bareilly Ki Barfi”. The actor, who last release “Luka Chuppi” was also well-received by the audience, says after completing five years in the movie business she is happy that people are finally taking her seriously as a performer. “Both ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ and ‘Luka Chuppi’ were instinctive choices, today I do feel all the more confident to go…

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Coal supply by CIL to power sector drops 3 pc in Apr-May

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Supply of coal to the power sector by state-owned CIL declined by 2.6 per cent to 80.9 million tonnes in the first two months of the ongoing fiscal, government data showed. This comes amid coal imports rising 12.9 per cent to 235.2 million tonnes (MT) in FY’19 over 208.2 MT imported in FY’18.The country’s top dry-fuel miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) had supplied 83.1 MT of coal in April-May period of FY’18, according to government data.In May, coal dispatch by CIL dropped 4.9 per cent to 40.6 million tonnes from…

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