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Today women don’t need to pull down each other to be better: Sushmita Sen

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Actor Sushmita Sen says society is moving in the right direction as women no longer believe in elbowing each other to be “one up”.The 42-year-old actor says the world has become a better place as even men are now more supportive of women and are accepting their individuality. “What I love about the times we are living in now is that women don’t need to pull down other women to be better or one up. Now, if somebody asks them to do that they usually dump the person.”The new generation…

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“No chance at all”, says CEC on possibility of simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls

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Putting to rest all speculation, Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat today emphatically ruled out the possibility of holding simultaneous elections to the state assemblies along with the Lok Sabha polls anytime soon.Rawat also said a legal framework is needed to be in place for holding simultaneous polls.There has been some speculation in the recent weeks that Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram due this year end may be deferred and held simultaneously along with the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for April-May 2019.While the term of the…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Rupee sinks 30 paise on US rate hike worries, crude spike

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The rupee today sank 30 paise to close below the 70-mark against the US currency due to renewed worries about a hike in US interest rates amid global trade war jitters.The domestic currency ended at 70.11 per dollar, a loss of 30 paise or 0.43 per cent over the previous close. In day trade, the rupee had crumbled to a session low of 70.17 per dollar.The rupee suffered its the biggest single-day drop in past one week, snapping a two-straight session recovery trend.Forex sentiment wobbled with a resurgent dollar as…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Pakistan has ‘solid evidence’ against Kulbhushan Jadhav: Foreign Minister

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Pakistan has “solid evidence” against Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav and is hopeful of winning the case against him at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the country’s new Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said today.Jadhav, 47, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on spying charges in April 2017. India moved the ICJ in May the same year against the verdict. The world court has halted Jadhav’s execution on India’s appeal pending the final verdict by it.Both India and Pakistan have already submitted their detailed pleas and responses…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Sudden water release by TN from Mullaperiyar a reason for deluge: Kerala to SC

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The sudden release of water from the Mullaperiyar Dam by the Tamil Nadu government was one of the reasons for the devastating deluge in Kerala, the state government told the Supreme Court today.It said that out of a total population of about 3.48 crore, more than 54 lakh or one sixth of the population of Kerala, had been directly affected by the floods.The Pinarayi Vijayan government said that in the wake of prior alerts by its engineers, Kerala’s Water Resources Secretary had written to her counterpart in Tamil Nadu government…

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NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Ankita Raina assures India of another medal

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Anikta Raina today confirmed just the third singles medal in women’s tennis for India at the Asian Games as she reached the semifinals after being 1-4 down at one stage. India’s top-ranked women’s singles player, Anikta breezed past Eudice Chong 6-4 6-1 of Hong Kong in their quarterfinal match. She won the first set in 54 minutes and took only 27 minutes to claim the second set. Raina came back from behind to take the first set 6-4 against Chong of Hong Kong. Raina was trailing 0-3 and 1-4 at…

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Danny Boyle exits Bond 25 due to ‘creative differences’

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Director Danny Boyle has dropped out of directing next James Bond movie due to “creative differences” with the producers. The official James Bond Twitter account shared the news of Boyle’s departure, saying the filmmaker chose to walk out of the project. “Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig today announced that due to creative differences Danny Boyle has decided to no longer direct Bond 25,” the official James Bond Twitter account tweeted. The producers had announced in May this year that the 61-year-old director, who won the 2009 Best…

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Facebook takes down 652 accounts linked to Russia, Iran

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Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behaviour, a far larger discovery than a “sophisticated” effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare. The social network said yesterday that it had removed 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and, unexpectedly, Iran, for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that included the sharing of political material. Facebook has significantly stepped up policing of its platform since last year, when it acknowledged that Russian agents successfully ran political influence operations on its platform that…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SC terms criminalisation of politics as ‘rot’, says may ask EC to deal with it

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Dubbing criminalisation of politics as “rot”, the Supreme Court today said it may consider directing the Election Commission to ask political parties to get their members disclose criminal cases against them so that the electors know how many “alleged crooks” are there in such parties. The observation by a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra came when it was told by the Centre that considering the concept of separation of powers, the issue of disqualification of lawmakers fell under the domain of Parliament. “Everybody understands that (doctrine…

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4 killed, 16 injured in fire in Mumbai high-rise residential building

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A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a posh high-rise residential building in Dadar here today morning, killing four people and injuring 16, fire officials said Dozens of people were rescued from different floors of the 17-storey Crystal Tower building near Hindmata Cinema The blaze has been brought under control and cooling operations are underway, officials said The fire brigade control room got a message at 8.32 am about the blaze on the 12th floor. The smoke from the raging fire spread rapidly, trapping the residents in the…

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