Woman gangraped in moving car in Kolkata
A woman was gangraped inside a moving vehicle in the wee hours of Monday, police said. The incident took place at Sector V of upmarket Salt lake city, on the north-eastern fringes of Kolkata. The woman, a bar singer who was still in shock, told the police that she had...
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Cabinet ranks for Didi's defeated generals
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Man kills NRI dad, dumps body parts
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Guj: Woman, four kids found dead in farm well
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Prasad directs DoT to look into call drop masking tech
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Trai issues pre-consultation paper on net neutrality
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Tata Motors Q4 net profit triples to Rs 5,177 cr
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Citing Ghalib verse, Nadella asks entrepreneurs to be bold
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CommMin to press FinMin on local sourcing waiver to Apple
Commerce Ministry will press the Finance Ministry to reconsider its rejection of local sourcing waiver to Apple Inc for opening single-brand stores here, but won’t allow the iPhone maker to import refurbished mobiles for sale in India. The Finance Ministry has rejected relaxing the 30 per cent domestic sourcing norms, as...
SAIl clocks record sales of 3.79 MT in Q4
The audited financial results of Steel Authority of India limited (SAIl) for the financial year 2015-16 were taken on record by the Board of Directors here on Monday. The Company witnessed all round improvement in performance in Q4, FY16 clocking record sales of 3.79 MT, which is the highest ever in...
BJP chief unveils 'Veer Savarkar Jyot' at Port Blair's Cellular Jail
The National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Amit Shah unveiled a specially designed Veer Savarkar Jyot to commemorate the 133rd birth anniversary of ‘Swatantra Veer’ Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, at the Cellular Jail in Port Blair on Monday. Veer Savarkar Jyot has been erected by The IndianOil Foundation at the Cellular...
Birth control against Islam: Turkish Prez
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken out against birth control and family planning, saying they go against Muslim traditions. Speaking at an educational foundation in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan declared, “I say this openly, We will increase our descendants, we will increase our population. Family planning, birth control, no Muslim...
'Killing of 1.5 m Armenians not genocide'
Turkey has criticised plans by Germany’s Parliament to recognise the World War I killings of Armenians as genocide. The killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks are widely viewed by historians as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, insists that the...
Chad former dictator gets life for rape, war crimes
A special court in Senegal on Monday sentenced former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre to life in prison for war crimes, crimes against humanity and a litany of other charges, including rape. The verdict brings a long-awaited day of reckoning to up to 40,000 people kidnapped, raped and tortured under his...
Beijing tears into Pentagon over South China Sea
Ahead of a high-level Sino-US dialogue, China on Monday accused the Pentagon of clinging to “cold war” mentality and attempting to stage a Hollywood blockbuster by deploying its modern weapons in the South China Sea to “terrify” Beijing. In an angry reaction to US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter’s remarks that “China’s...
