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      'The Black Prince': Strong subject poorly executed (IANS Review, Rating: **)

      Film: "The Black Prince"; Director: Kavi Raz; Cast: Satinder Sartaaj, Shabana Azmi, Amanda Root, Jason Flemyng, Atul Sharma, Rup Magon, Sophie Stephen; Rating: **

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      Should journalists protect national interest or publish and be damned?

      Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's fate hangs in the balance on unexplained finances, most specifically for apartments he acquired on London's most expensive stretch, Park Lane, facing Hyde Park. To make sense of the military handouts explaining the situation, I turned up in London to interview

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      Actively working towards clean political funding: Jaitley

      New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the government was actively working towards providing a system of clean political funding. "When we deal with the subject of how the political system will be funded, we hope through cleaner money in future. Jaitley said for

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      Don't think I'm a feature film director: Designer Tarun Tahiliani`

      New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Tarun Tahiliani, one of India's favourite bridal designers, has made a whole series of "very nice short vignette films" on fashion but says he doesn't see himself going behind the camera to helm a feature film. In 2015, model-actress Lisa Haydon featured in

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      Diandra Soares looking for 'elite' models

      New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Model Diandra Soares is excited about co-judging the Delhi contestants of Max Elite Model Look India 2017, which provides a platform to "fresh, young and aspiring models". Among other cities, the Elite Model Look team will be travelling to Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata

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      Ani

      Telangana Agriculture Minister meets German delegates, discusses seed sector development

      Telangana Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy met German delegates and discussed 'Seed Sector Development' at Telangana Secretariat in Hyderabad. Many agricultural related officials and intellects participated in the meeting. Speaking at the event, Reddy said for the first time in India

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      Ani

      Tomato prices continue to rise across India

      Prices of tomatoes continue to soar across India adding to the distress of common man. Price of tomatoes, an essential ingredient of Indian cuisine and consumed extensively across India, touched Rs. 100 per kg in certain parts of the country. People in Hubli are upset with the rising prices as the skyrocketing

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      Making 'Dunkirk' was enormous responsibility, says Nolan

      Los Angeles, July 22 (IANS) Filmmaker Christopher Nolan says he felt "an enormous responsibility" while making his new film "Dunkirk". The film is based on the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, and Nolan says he had a lot of responsibility while making something about real-life events,

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      Rahul warns NDA government against distorting Constitution

      Bengaluru, July 22 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday warned the ruling NDA government against distorting the Constitution and implementing the agenda of the RSS.S "The aim of the union government is to distort the Constitution, which was drafted by B.R. Ambedkar, and implement

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      Ministerial group formed to look into AI divestment meets

      New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) A ministerial group formed to look into the modalities of national passenger carrier Air India's divestment process met here on Friday. The group -- Air India-specific Alternative Mechanism -- headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley met here for the first time after its

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      EAM Sushma Swaraj meets 4-month-old Pakistani infant after his successful heart surgery

      After the successfully heart surgery of four-month-old infant from Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met him on Friday. Rohaan successfully underwent a heart surgery at Jaypee Hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Noida. The infant was brought to India for medical treatment after by External

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      6 telecom firms under-reported Rs 61,064 cr revenues: CAG

      New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Telecom majors in India under-reported their revenues to the tune of Rs 61,064.5 crore during 2010-11 and 2014-15, leading to a "short payment" of Rs 7,697.6 crore to the government, the national auditor said on Friday.

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      Kuldeep, Jadeja shine in practice tie as India end Day-1 at 135/3

      Colombo, July 21 (IANS) Indian spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja shared seven wickets between them as India bundled out the Sri Lanka Board President's team for 187 on the opening day. Coming back from a surgery, India opener Lokesh Rahul fired a rapid 58-ball 54 while skipper Virat Kohli

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      NCLT admits SBI's insolvency application against Electrosteel Steels

      Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) The Kolkata bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Friday issued an interim order admitting State Bank of India's (SBI) insolvency application against the city based Electrosteel Steels Limited for initiating the corporate insolvency resolution process. "

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      'Farooq sahab is just playing a political game': PDP over Farooq Abdullah statement

      After former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah stirred up a statement suggesting that India should explore the option of 'third party' intervention to bring peace in Kashmir, the Ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) stated that the former is playing a political game. Peoples

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      IANS India Private Limited

      Government looking at monthly wind project auctions

      New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The government plans to hold auctions for wind power projects every month, ensuring, however, that this process does not push up tariff rates, Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. Speaking at an event here for signing power purchase agreements

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      3 college boys in ISL player draft

      Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) As the Indian Super League (ISL) Indian player draft unfolds here on Sunday, three college boys could realise their dreams of rubbing shoulders with the superstars of Indian and global football in the upcoming edition of the tournament, to be held later in the year.

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      Women’s WC17: 5 interesting facts about recording breaking Harmanpreet Kaur

      Harmanpreet Kaur is the name that everyone is talking about after the star batsman’s incredible batting performance, scoring a career best 171 runs off 115 runs which included 20 fours and 7 sky-soaring sixes guiding India to the finals of the World Cup 2017.

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      Meghalaya to launch grassroots football development programme

      Shillong, July 21 (IANS) A state government-backed football grassroots development programme will be launched with an exhibition match between the north-eastern players and their rest of India counterparts at the floodlit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Saturday. A 'pet project' of Meghalaya

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      Rahul blames Modi for Kashmir turbulence

      Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's policies for the volatile situation in Jammu and Kashmir and also remarked "Kashmir is India and India is Kashmir"

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      RIL's action-packed AGM announces free JioPhone, 1:1 bonus shares

      Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) In an action-packed Annual General Meeting of Reliance Industries Limited on Friday, its Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani announced the launch of zero cost 'intelligent smartphone' as well as recommended bonus shares in the ratio of 1:1 for the company's

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      Sachin, Virat, SRK PRAISES Women's Cricket Team

      A string of celebrities from Bollywood and sports like Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli Amitabh Bachchan, have lauded India's win against Australia in the second semi-finals of Women's World Cup.

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      BJP, Panthers Party disapprove Farooq Abdullah's statement on third party intervention to settle Kashmir issue

      Politicos from all across the country reacted to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah's broiling statements on the Kashmir issue, about asking India to take help of the United States and China to mediate the region. Condemning Abudullah's statement, Deputy Chief Minister of

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      Q1 results, RIL announcements lift equity indices

      Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Healthy quarterly results from index heavyweights such as Reliance Industries (RIL) and Wipro buoyed the Indian equity markets on Friday.

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      Sushma lied about border, India easy to defeat in war: Chinese daily

      Beijing, July 21 (IANS) Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj lied to Parliament that all countries back New Delhi over the border dispute, a Chinese daily said on Friday, and warned India to be ready for war and lose even its own territory if it did not pull back troops. A hard-hitting commentary in