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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Sensex pares losses, down 23 pts in late morning deals

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Mumbai, May 9 (DIN NEWS) The BSE Sensex pared its initial losses but still traded 23.52 points lower in late morning deals today, led by profit-booking in energy, utilities and power sectors. Global markets were mixed after President Donald Trump said the US will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, while crude oil surged to its highest level since late 2014 at USD 76 a barrel on supply worries. Buying interest was witnessed in IT, teck, metal, consumer durables and capital goods sectors. The 30-share index was trading lower at…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

India sends 2nd relief consignment for Rohingyas in Bangladesh

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Dhaka, May 9 (DIN NEWS) India has sent to Bangladesh its second relief consignment to help tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar following a military crackdown, triggering one of the world’s worst refugee crises. Over 600,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar’s violence-hit Rakhine state to neighbouring Bangladesh since August when the military intensified crackdown against alleged militant outfits of Rohingya Muslims. Indian Navy Ship INS Airavat sailed from Vishakhapatnam and reached Chattogram port (formerly Chittagong) Port yesterday where Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla handed over the…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Netanyahu to meet Putin amid new round of Syria strikes

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Jerusalem, May 9 (DIN NEWS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Moscow today, where he and President Vladimir Putin will discuss military coordination amid new strikes in Syria blamed on Israel. Syrian state-run media said Israel struck a military outpost near the capital, Damascus, on Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missiles targeted depots and rocket launchers that likely belonged to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard in Kisweh, killing nine people. Tensions between Israel and Iran are high over Iran’s efforts to expand its military presence…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES POLITICS 

Normaly returns to Kashmir as separatists call off strike

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Srinagar, May 9 (DIN NEWS) Normalcy returned to most parts of Kashmir Valley today as the separatists called off their three-day strike against the death of six civilians during clashes with security forces, in which eight militants were also killed. A police official said there were no restrictions in most parts of the summer capital today, with shops and other business establishments getting back to business. He said public transport also resumed services. Similar reports were received from district headquarters of the Valley, except in Pulwama and Shopian districts of…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES POLITICS 

Modi attacks Rahul over ready to be ‘PM’ remark

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Bangarpet (K’taka), May 9 (DIN NEWS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at Congress party president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday after the latter publicly declared his prime ministerial ambition, and wondered whether the country would ever accept such an “immature and naamdar (famous)” leader for the post “The naamdar who does not have confidence in his alliance partners… who doesn’t care for Congress’ internal democracy, whose arrogance has reached cloud seven, and is declaring himself that he would be the prime minister in 2019… Will the country ever accept…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Sonam Kapoor And Anand Ahuja’s Wedding: They Are Married. Meet Sonam Kapoor-Ahuja

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Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja are now married. Sonam and Anand got married as per a traditional Sikh ceremony on the morning of May 8 at her aunt’s Bandra bungalow. Sonam Kapoor wore a fabulous creation by Anuradha Vakil festooned with a spectacular choker and a necklace along with matching mathapatti and juhkis. Sonam looked gorgeous and Anand Ahuja complemented her in a gold sherwani with a ruby red mala. A bevy of Bollywood celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Sonam’s colleagues Swara Bhasker and Kareena Kapoor, her best friend Jacqueline attended the Anant Karaj ceremony in the…

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NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Watch: Fans In Disbelief As Yusuf Pathan’s One-Handed Stunner Sends Virat Kohli Packing

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SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) are making a habit of defending low totals and on Monday night, the Hyderabad franchise was at it again. The match was going to plan for Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) but SRH again decided to throw the script out of the window. Kane Williamson’s side produced yet another sublime bowling performance to deny RCB a crucial winthat gave the hosts an outright lead at the top of the IPL 2018 points table. The game-changer for SRH came via an unlikely source in the field — Yusuf Pathan.…

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IPL: Virat Kohli Tears Apart RCB’s Performance, Says Deserved To Lose vs SunRisers Hyderabad

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Virat Kohli didn’t mince any words in his analysis of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) narrow loss to SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Monday night. After the loss, the RCB skipper accused his team of letting the opposition get back in the game and throwing the match away. Kohli said his team just weren’t good enough on the day and deserved to lose the game. RCB’s bowling has let the team down on numerous occasions in IPL 2018 but in the loss against Kane Williamson’s team, it was the batting…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Former Top Chinese Communist Official Sun Zhengcai Jailed For Life For Bribery

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A former Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped as a potential successor to President Xi Jinping was sentenced to life in prison for bribery on Tuesday, the latest senior cadre to fall in Xi’s sweeping anti-corruption crusade. Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member and party chief of the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, was found guilty of taking more than 170 million yuan ($26.7 million) in bribes, the First Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin said in a statement on its website. Sun, 54, had once been tipped for promotion…

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How China’s Leap In Missiles Is Altering The Picture For India

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For a quarter century, the US and its allies owned the skies, fighting wars secure in the knowledge that no opponent could compete in the air. As tensions with Russia and China surge, that’s no longer the case. Rapid technological progress in China’s aerospace industry, particularly air-to-air missile systems fired from an aircraft, is changing the game for Western air forces and the global arms trade. It’s also altering the picture for China’s neighbours such as India. Russia took the lead in modernizing its air force, and has been more…

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