A ‘royal’ tiger housed in captivity at the city’s National Park died of old age early on Friday. The park’s only surviving white tiger, Bajirao, who was 18 years old, was unable to walk due to long-standing arthritis. Bajirao had been afflicted with ‘chronic senile generalised arthritis’ for four years. The condition is akin to …
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Food from one’s city or town has a distinct flavour. At a new place, craving and nostalgia take place of the real taste that once was the part of daily cuisine. But sometimes, one gets really lucky to find some places, where they can get authentic home food ingredients that satiates their palette and makes possible the preparation of their …
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has thwarted a possible Sri Lanka-like attack in Kerala after it arrested three men from the state who had links the ISIS-inspired terror group which carried out the Easter bombings. Riyas Aboobacker, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala, was arrested by the NIA on Monday while two of his associates Ahamed Arafat and Aboobacker Siddique, …
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Business tycoon Ness Wadia, heir to the Wadia Group and co-owner of Kings XI Punjab has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan over possession of drugs. The Financial Times, quoting Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reported that Wadia was arrested in March at New Chitose Airport in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido while on a holiday after …
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Now that every other person that you see around is busy on their phones, mindlessly scrolling through the Facebook or Instagram feed or just playing games. Rarely, you encounter someone soaked in a book. To help people get off their phones and indulge into actual reading, vending machines in London are not giving out chocolates cars or cans of drinks …
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Five days after the deadly blasts on Easter Sunday left over 300 persons dead, Sri Lanka released photographs of six suspects, including three women as police intensified search and arrested 16 people, taking the number of those under custody to 76. Nine suicide bombers, believed to be the members of local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), carried …
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Puranigudam Minar, as the locals call it, stands tall in a dusty bylane of Nagaon. Situated inside the Puranigudam Masjid, built in 1824, the turret was about to be demolished to make way for a highway expansion project. The people of Purunigudam, cutting across religious lines, would not let that happen. In 2015, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) …
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As the battle for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 continues, one of the most talked about issues this year is about women safety. Cutting across age groups and geographic locations, women voters from all over the country have expressed their views on how important an issue it is and how they will prefer to vote for a candidate who will …
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The Indian Army, for the first time, has issued an advertisement in newspapers for recruiting women soldiers into the military police. The development comes three months after the government announced that women will be inducted into the force in the “Personnel Below Officer Rank” (PBOR) category. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) BJP’s Gautam Gambhir Richest …
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The Indian Navy has launched its latest warship, INS Imphal, a guided missile destroyer. The Navy’s latest warship was launched into the water at the Mazagon Docks in Mumbai on Saturday. According to the Navy Spokesperson, INS Imphal was launched by Adm Sunil Lanba and Mrs. Reena Lanba President Navy Wives Welfare Association (NWWA), who broke a coconut on the …
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