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Pak PM to visit Afghanistan tomorrow

April 6, 2018 strong

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will travel to Afghanistan tomorrow on a day-long visit during which he is likely discuss a range of issues, including ways to facilitate talks with the Taliban. In a statement, the Foreign Office said Abbasi was visiting Kabul on an invitation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. “The Prime Minister’s visit is taking place in the backdrop of Pakistan’s support to President Ghani’s offer of peace talks with the Taliban for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan and strengthening bilateral engagement,” it said. Abbasi will…

Good guy, bad boy Salman back in jail

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 strong

Salman Khan, Bollywood’s ‘enfant terrible’ and arguably its most successful star with an estimated Rs 600 crore riding on him, has long walked the good and bad binary with his larger than life ‘bhai’ image clashing with his controversial personal life. Bollywood’s ‘bad boy’ through the decades, who was sent to Jodhpur jail today, has landed in prison for a fifth time on charges ranging from killing deer to a man sleeping on a Mumbai pavement. The star, mellower perhaps at 52 than he was in 1998, when he killed…

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Opposition to ban on liquor is an anti-poor stance: Nitish

April 6, 2018 strong

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today lambasted opposition parties for criticising prohibition policy saying the stance was “anti-poor” since the economically deprived sections of the society suffered the most on account of alcoholism. In an apparent reference to spate of communal flare-ups witnessed recently in the state, Kumar also made it clear that the rule of law will be upheld under his watch, “though there are elements in every society who keep looking for an opportunity to create tension”. “There are people who are angry with me because of obvious…

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Rate-sensitive stocks rise ahead of RBI policy decision

April 5, 2018 strong

Shares of interest rate-sensitive stocks like auto, banking and realty rallied in morning trade on the bourses ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision today. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Urjit Patel, will announce the resolution of the MPC on its first bi-monthly monetary policy for financial year 2018-19 later in the day. Among banking stocks, Kotak Mahindra Bank rose as much as 1.91 per cent, while Yes Bank jumped 2.40 per cent, State Bank of India 2.06 per cent, Federal Bank 2.07…

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Salman Khan Found Guilty, Other Actors Acquitted In Blackbuck Poaching Case

April 5, 2018 strong

A Jodhpur court today convicted Bollywood star Salman Khan for killing two blackbucks in October 1998 but acquitted his colleagues Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, a prosecution lawyer said. A fifth person, Dushyant Singh, a local from the area, has also been acquitted, Mahipal Bishnoi, the prosecution counsel, told reporters. Salman was found guilty of killing the blackbucks, from the antelope family, in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the night of October 1, 1998 during the shooting of the film “Hum Saath Saath Hain”. While the media…

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Champions League: Liverpool Stun Manchester City, Barcelona Thrash Roma

April 5, 2018 strong

Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sadio Mane scored as Liverpool stunned Manchester City 3-0 at Anfield in Wednesday’s first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. Salah fired Liverpool ahead on 12 minutes with Oxlade-Chamberlain hammering in a terrific long-range strike before Mane headed in a third as Jurgen Klopp beat City counterpart Pep Guardiola for the sixth time in 10 meetings. The return fixture takes place in Manchester on April 10. Barca win Luis Suarez’s late strike sealed a 4-1 win for Barcelona against Roma in their Champions League quarter-final, first leg…

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“No Outsider Needs To Tell Us”: Sachin Tendulkar On Shahid Afridi’s Kashmir Tweet

April 5, 2018 strong

For Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi, comes a strong word of advice from cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. “No outsider needs to know or tell us what we need to do,” said the former India captain, condemning Afridi’s comments on Kashmir. “It is obvious that we have capable people to manage our country, run our country,” the master blaster added when asked about Shahid Afridi’s tweet in which he had alleged an “appalling and worrisome situation” in Kashmir and urged UN intervention. The former Pakistani captain was apparently reacting to an anti-terror operation in…

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India To Offer $3-4 Billion Development Plan For Giant Iran Gas Field: Sources

April 5, 2018 strong

India is set to offer a $3-4 billion development plan for the Farzad B gas field to Iran next week after Tehran reduced the scope of the project, two sources familiar with the matter said. Relations between the two countries, which have long held deep trade ties, were strained last year after Iran sought other investors for the field and media reports suggested Tehran would award it to Russia’s Gazprom. In retaliation, India directed its state refiners to cut oil imports from Iran. At a meeting in New Delhi in…

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Cauvery Issue: Tamil Nadu Shutdown Called By DMK, Other Opposition Parties Today

April 5, 2018 strong

Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party – the DMK – along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue – a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery Management Board, as ordered by the Supreme Court, be set up immediately. They have accused the central government of delaying the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board due to electoral gains in…

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“You’ll Get It”: Saif Ali Khan, Upset At Media, Shouts At Driver On Video

April 5, 2018 strong

Actor Saif Ali Khan is heard shouting at his driver and threatening to hit him in a video filmed after he landed in Jodhpur yesterday for a court verdict on a 20-year-old case of poaching blackbucks, in which he is an accused. Actor Salman Khan is the main accused in the case; he is accused of killing two blackbucks while on a film shoot in 1998 along with co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam. Saif Ali Khan and the other actors are co-accused in the case. As he got into…