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Koeman’s Netherlands claim friendly draw in Belgium

October 17, 2018 strong

The Netherlands continued their resurgence under Ronald Koeman as youngster Arnaut Groeneveld’s first international goal secured a 1-1 friendly draw with Belgium in Brussels. Dries Mertens fired the World Cup semi-finalists into a sixth-minute lead, but Groeneveld marked his full debut for the Dutch by equalising before the half-hour mark on Tuesday. This was another strong performance for the Oranje after Saturday’s stunning 3-0 Nations League victory over Germany, while Roberto Martinez’s Belgium remain unbeaten at home since a loss to Spain in September 2016. “I think there is still…

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Idris Elba in talks for ‘Cats’ movie

October 17, 2018 strong

Actor Idris Elba is in negotiations to join the voice cast of “Cats”, the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved musical.Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper will helm the project which is expected to start shooting in England next month, reported Deadline. If the deal gets finalised, the 46-year-old actor will join Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden and Ian McKellen in the cast.Lee Hall will adapt the screenplay for the musical, which Lloyd Webber based on T S Eliot’s children’s poems. The film will follow the story of a tribe…

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Trump criticizes rush to condemn Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi

October 17, 2018 strong

President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticised rapidly mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia over the mystery of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, warning of a rush to judgment and echoing the Saudis’ request for patience.In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump compared the case of Khashoggi, who Turkish officials have said was murdered in the Saudis’ Istanbul consulate, to the allegations of sexual assault levelled against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. “I think we have to find out what happened first,” Trump said. “Here we go…

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Sensex logs first fall in 4 days, tanks 383 pts on rupee woes

October 17, 2018 strong

The BSE benchmark Sensex snapped its three-day gains, plunging 383 points due to heavy selling mainly in financial and auto stocks as rising crude prices and rupee volatility spooked investorThe flagship index swung nearly 880 points both ways on alternate bouts of buying and selling during the session.The NSE Nifty too fell by 131.70 points to slip below 10,500-mark. Intense selling pressure was witnessed in select counters led by auto, realty and oil&gas stocks. Sentiments were also hurt by liquidity concerns that dragged down non-banking financial stocks.Meanwhile in the forex market,…

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Media bears brunt of protests as tempers soar around Sabarimala

October 17, 2018 strong

Women journalists were heckled, their vehicles smashed and young female Ayyappa devotees turned back as hordes of Hindu right activists besieged the road leading to the Sabarimala temple whose gates open for women of menstrual age Wednesday evening for the first time after the Supreme Court’s verdict.The political slugfest over the Kerala government’s decision not to file a review petition against the apex court order also escalated as tempers frayed in areas surrounding the hill shrine that were on edge.Activist Rahul Easwar, a front-ranking leader of the protesters and votary…

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Godman Rampal, 13 followers sentenced to life term in another case

October 17, 2018 strong

A Haryana court sentenced self-styled godman Rampal and his 13 followers to life imprisonment in a second case of murder Wednesday.The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge in Hisar sentenced Rampal, 67, and his followers in the case registered at Barwala police station in the district on November 19, 2014. They had been charged with murder, wrongful confinement of people and criminal conspiracy.A woman was found dead at Rampal’s Ashram in Hisar district on November 19, 2014. Rampal was arrested the same day for murder and other charges were…

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Inquest into Roebuck death set to be reopened – report

October 15, 2018 strong

An inquest into the supposed suicide of renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in South Africa in 2011 is set to be reopened, his former employer reported Monday. English-born Roebuck, 55, was covering the Test series between South Africa and Australia when he plunged to his death from the Southern Sun Hotel in Cape Town. South African police said he leapt out of a sixth floor window after two officers arrived to arrest him over a claim of sexual assault by a Zimbabwean man.But his family have never accepted the account…

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PM warns of high oil prices hurting global economic growth

October 15, 2018 strong

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday warned oil producers like Saudi Arabia that high crude prices are hurting the global economy and sought a review of payment terms to provide a temporary relief to the local currency.India, the world’s third-biggest oil consumer, has been over the past two months battered by high crude oil prices that have sent retail petrol, diesel and LPG rates to record high, posed inflationary risks and together with a sliding rupee threatened to upset its current account deficit. Also, unrelenting fuel price rise since mid-August has…

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Bryan Adams makes it a night to remember in Gurgaon

October 15, 2018 strong

He came, he performed and left crooning and swaying fans asking for more; Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams wound up his five-city India tour with a concert in the Delhi-NCR region Sunday night.Beginning his nearly two-hour gig at the Leisure Valley Park here with the 2017 hit Ultimate Love’, which seamlessly segued into the one-two punch of Can’t Stop This Thing We Started’, he went on to belt 24 more numbers from his rich repertoire of songs before going solo on being persisted by the 15,000-strong crowd. Taking the stage…

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Trump wants people to come to US on basis of merit

October 15, 2018 strong

President Donald Trump has backed off from his claim that climate change is a “hoax”, but accused climate scientists of having a “very big political agenda”. The comments by Trump, who in June last year pulled the US out of the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, was made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. It come less than a week after climate scientists issued a final call to halt rising temperatures. Last week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the leading international body evaluating…