End of Watch
Verdict Despite succumbing to genre conventions, End of Watch is a thrilling and exciting film with terrific performances. Go for it. Cast : Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Martinez… Director : David Ayer Producer : David Ayer, Nigel Sinclair Story : Two young LA police officers discover a secret that makes them the target of the country’s most dangerous drug c artel
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Cultural heritage and might on display at Republic Day parade
NEW DELHI: A rich cultural heritage and military prowess were on display at the 64th Republic Day parade on Saturday on the 8-km stretch from Rajpath to Red Fort. An eager audience on both sides of the imposing Rajpath, the country’s ceremonial boulevard facing the seat of power Raisina Hills, braved the winter chill and cheered loudly as the parade went past them portraying the rich and diverse culture of the country. General Officer Commanding (Delhi) Lt General Subroto Mitra led ...
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Maruti Q3 net profit doubles, first rise in six quarters
(Reuters) – Maruti Suzuki Ltd(MRTI.NS), India’s biggest carmaker by sales volume, said its third quarter profit more than doubled, its first increase in 18 months after a torrid period marked by a strike, plant shutdowns and a demand slowdown. The small car champion, which two years ago produced every other new car sold in India, outperformed a miserable market during the quarter to end-December, bouncing back after a deadly factory riot in July led to a $250 million production ...
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Australian Open: Murray beats Federer
(DNA) Andy Murray set up an enthralling Australian Open final against world number one Novak Djokovic after a high-quality victory against Roger Federer on Friday. The 25-year-old Briton, who had never beaten Federer in a grand slam previously despite being one of the few players to hold a superior career record against the Swiss, advanced to the final with a 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 win in four hours. Murray had looked the more likely to win the match from the outset with a superior servi...
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37 foreigners die at Algeria gas plant, 7 missing – PM
(Reuters) – A total of 37 foreign workers died in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday. Sellal also told a news conference that a Canadian had coordinated the attack by Islamists on the site near the Libyan border. “A Canadian was among the militants. He was coordinating the attack,” Sellal said, adding that the raiders had threatened to blow up the gas inst...
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Rahul Gandhi appointed the vice president of Congress
Rahul Gandhi has been appointed as the vice president of the Congress. Congress party spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi told that the decision to elevate Rahul Gandhi was taken by the Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest decision making body, at its ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Jaipur. After With this appointment as vice president of the Congress party today, Rahul Gandhi has been elevated to number two position in the party. Certainly, this decision will greatly streng...
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Diesel demand in India seen immune to stepped price hikes
(Reuters) – India’s demand for diesel will stay buoyant despite its plan to hike the price of the fuel in small monthly steps, analysts and company officials said on Friday, and the country will keep up the pace of its exports of diesel. From Thursday, government allowed state fuel retailers to raise prices by up to 0.50 rupees, or one U.S. cent, a litre each month to gradually align them with market rates, and has also freed up the price of gasoil sold to bulk consumers. T...
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‘Matru Ki Bijlee ka Mandola collects Rs22.4 crore in first weekend
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola made Rs22.4 crore during its opening weekend. The filmmaker is content with the response to his new project, which is satirical in nature. Our country is going through a massive transition. He wanted to make a film about the social and political scene in the country, but wanted to do it in a humorous tone. The response from the public and especially the young adults, has made him realise that Indian audiences are open to satire that do...
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Hafeez demands more Test matches for Pakistan
Pakistan player of the year Mohammad Hafeez wants his cricket board to schedule more Test matches for the national team. Pakistan’s Test matches are restricted after rival teams refused to tour the country following a gun attack on the Sri Lanka squad in 2009 but the national Twenty20 captain still believes more Tests are possible. “I would ask the board to take up this issue and try to schedule more test matches for us because I believe players only develop by playing test...
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Are You Living with stress?
(China Daily) Millions of people suffer stress everyday and increasingly with tragic consequences. Some suffer in silence. Others try a host of remedies to cope with the strain of modern living. Here, in our special report, we analyze and highlight the reasons why we worry. Look at the troubling road to how we have become a world superpower in stress and consider what can be done to ease the growing tide of pressure on the nation’s workforce. Nearly eight out of 10 Chinese workers b...
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NASA probe reveals organics, ice on Mercury
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.- Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday. Earth-based telescopes have been compiling evidence for ice on Mercury for 20 years, but the finding of organics was a surprise, say researchers with NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the first probe to orbit Mercury. NASA probe reveals organics, ice on Me...
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French teenager makes astrophysics discovery
( Agencies) Neil Ibata, a 15-year-old French high school student and the son of astrophysicist Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg), poses next to a computer screen showing a 3D model representation of his research and the Andromeda galaxy at the observatory in Strasbourg Jan 5, 2013. Neil, working with his father, has participated in the discovery that many small companion dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda seem to orbit in concert, aligned ...
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Delhi Gang Rape – After throwing her off the bus, accused tried to crush ‘Amanat’, say sources
New Delhi: First they brutally beat and gang-raped the 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus. Then, they threw her and her friend, also badly beaten, out of the bus. And then, the six men accused of murdering the young woman in a case that has shaken a nation’s conscience, allegedly tried to drive the bus over the couple. The friend pulled her to safety, just in time, police sources say. This is one of many shocking details now emerging of what happened on the evening of Su...
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Nip ‘n’ tuck scare tactic: Patients ‘should see photos of scarring to warn them of side effects’
Patients thinking of having cosmetic surgery should be shown photos of bruising and scarring to warn them of the side-effects, a report says. They should also be given more time to decide whether to go ahead with an operation in the first place. The consultation on the regulation of procedures from breast implants to Botox says the booming cosmetic surgery industry should be overhauled to protect the public from unscrupulous clinics. No warning: Many patients who sign up for plastic surgery o...
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Few Ways to Cut Your Heart Attack Risk
Try to maintain a healthy heart. Here we are explaining some delicious recipes to surprising facts about cholesterol, we have all the tools you need to ensure a smart and strong heart without depriving yourself of all the foods you love. In comparison with the men women are more at risk of dying from a heart attack, because we don’t recognize the symptoms, which can be more subtle than the cinematic heart-clenching ones typically seen in men. In an study it is found that women who’...
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Chinese scientists find evidence for speed of gravity
(People Daily) BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found evidence supporting the hypothesis that gravity travels at the speed of light based on data gleaned from observing Earth tides. Scientists have been trying to measure the speed of gravity for years through experiments and observations, but few have found valid methods. By conducting six observations of total and annular solar eclipses, as well as Earth tides, a team headed by Tang Keyun...
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Bharti Infratel shares drop 13 percent in market debut
(Reuters) – Bharti Infratel, backed by billionaire Sunil Mittal, dived 13 percent in its trading debut after raising about $760 million in India’s biggest IPO in two years, weighed down by a cautious outlook for mobile tower operators. The IPO, priced near the lower end of an indicative range to ensure success, struggled to find interest from retail investors and was supported mostly by overseas institutional buyers, a key pillar in the Indian stock market. Bharti Infratel’s...
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China tightens Internet controls, legalises post deletion
(Reuters) – China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalising the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain “illegal” information and requiring service providers to hand over such information to the authorities for punishment. The rules signal that the new leadership headed by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will continue muzzling the often scathing, raucous online chatter in a country where the Internet offers a rare opportunity for debate. Th...
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Pakistan skipper Mohammed Hafeez confident Pak would down India in second T20 also
(HT) Pakistan skipper Mohammed Hafeez on Thursday said the way his side clawed its way back in the first Twenty20 match against India, he has no doubts that his side will go on to win the series by winning the second match in Ahmedabad on Friday. Pakistan thumped India by five wicketsin the Bangalore T20 match. “The way we played the last match, our morale is quite high. The way the entire team bounced back in both batting and bowling, that was morale boosting for us and we will try to ...
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Delhi rape victim admitted to Singapore’s top hospital for specialised treatment
(Reuters) – Police thwarted an attempt by activists on Thursday to rekindle mass protests in New Delhi over the gangrape and ferocious beating of a young woman, after the victim was airlifted to Singapore for specialist hospital care to save her life. Demonstrations erupted in New Delhi after the December 16 attack, culminating last weekend in pitched battles between police and protesters around the city’s India Gate war memorial. However, activists who gathered on Thursday fo...
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Control your Anger and Drive your Life Smoothly.
Anger is related anxiety disorder. It is a powerful emotion that threatens the complete body and as much as disturbs totally mental condition of a person. The person who is worried about his health, money and relationship is often comes under anger attack. Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems—problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life. And it...
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Govt had won the approval of Parliament on FDI
Government had won the approval of Parliament to its controversial decision of allowing FDI in multi-brand retail with a motion against it being defeated convincingly in Rajya Sabha, as BSP voted in favour of UPA. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). refers to an investment made to acquire lasting or long-term interest in enterprises operating outside of the economy of the investor, which could be a foreign person, company or group of entities, is seeking to control, manage, or have significant i...
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Amazon’s billion-dollar tax shield
(Reuters) – In 2005, Amazon rented a historic five-storey building in Luxembourg’s Grund quarter, right at the bottom of a steep rock-walled valley below the old town. By setting up in Luxembourg, and channelling sales through its units there, the world’s biggest online retailer could minimise corporate taxes. Amazon’s Luxembourg arrangements have deprived European governments of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax that it might otherwise have owed, as...
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Court summons Salman Khan, in a Hit & Run case
On Monday a local court issued summons to Salman Khan and a police officer to answer the charges of giving false information and producing wrong witnesses in a hit-and-run case involving the actor was delayed by around five years. The complaint was heared by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of the ninth court and summon was issued at suburban Bandra. The complaint was filed by a social worker named Santosh Daundkar. The complaint alleged that on the basis of false information ...
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High Blood Pressure May Harm Your Brain
According to latest research, the harms to your brain may begin well before your golden years if hypertension isn’t controlled properly. As the researchers write in their journal article, the evidence of even subtle brain injury among young middle-aged people. Brain scientists of the University of California, are studying the links between systolic blood pressure (that’s the first number in a reading, and measures the pressure of the blood on the vessels as the heart beats) and various in...
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Fantastic Tablet Google’s new Nexus 10
Since last three years till now Google has offered Android gadgets which has put Android in its purest form on hardware. Google has added a 10? tablet, the Nexus 10. This is the first Nexus tablet which competes directly with the iPad and a new phone, the Nexus 4 which replaced the Galaxy Nexus. The said brand was started with phones and then expanded to include the nifty Nexus 7 Tablet. However, Nexus was a comprehensive product. As we know Google is the proud owner of Motorola, it doesn’t...
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Top News Headlines of the Day
Israel Warns of ‘Expansion’ as Attack Widens to Media Sites Two children look through the rubble of their house after an airstrike in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, on Sunday. GAZA CITY —Israel pressed its assault on the Gaza Strip for a fifth straight day on Sunday, deploying warplanes and naval vessels to pummel the coastal enclave and striking at two media offices here as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a possible “significant” expansion in the onslaught and President Obama defen...
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End of Watch
Verdict Despite succumbing to genre conventions, End of Watch is a thrilling and exciting film with terrific performances. Go for it.
Cast : Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Martinez...
Director : David Ayer
Producer : David Ayer, Nigel Sinclair
Story : Two young LA police officers discover a secret that makes them the target of the country's most dangerous drug c
artel
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Cultural heritage and might on display at Republic Day parade
NEW DELHI: A rich cultural heritage and military prowess were on display at the 64th Republic Day parade on Saturday on the 8-km stretch from Rajpath to Red Fort.
An eager audience on both sides of the imposing Rajpath, the country's ceremonial boulevard facing the seat of power Raisina Hills, braved the winter chill and cheered loudly as the parade went past them portraying the rich and diverse culture of the country.
General Officer Commanding (Delhi) Lt General Subroto Mitra led the Read more [...]
Maruti Q3 net profit doubles, first rise in six quarters
(Reuters) - Maruti Suzuki Ltd(MRTI.NS), India's biggest carmaker by sales volume, said its third quarter profit more than doubled, its first increase in 18 months after a torrid period marked by a strike, plant shutdowns and a demand slowdown.
The small car champion, which two years ago produced every other new car sold in India, outperformed a miserable market during the quarter to end-December, bouncing back after a deadly factory riot in July led to a $250 million production loss.
Maruti, Read more [...]
Australian Open: Murray beats Federer
(DNA) Andy Murray set up an enthralling Australian Open final against world number one Novak Djokovic after a high-quality victory against Roger Federer on Friday.
The 25-year-old Briton, who had never beaten Federer in a grand slam previously despite being one of the few players to hold a superior career record against the Swiss, advanced to the final with a 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 win in four hours.
Murray had looked the more likely to win the match from the outset with a superior service Read more [...]
37 foreigners die at Algeria gas plant, 7 missing – PM
(Reuters) - A total of 37 foreign workers died in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.
Sellal also told a news conference that a Canadian had coordinated the attack by Islamists on the site near the Libyan border.
"A Canadian was among the militants. He was coordinating the attack," Sellal said, adding that the raiders had threatened to blow up the gas installation.
Earlier Read more [...]
Rahul Gandhi appointed the vice president of Congress
Rahul Gandhi has been appointed as the vice president of the Congress. Congress party spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi told that the decision to elevate Rahul Gandhi was taken by the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision making body, at its 'Chintan Shivir' in Jaipur.
After With this appointment as vice president of the Congress party today, Rahul Gandhi has been elevated to number two position in the party. Certainly, this decision will greatly strengthen the party. Read more [...]
Diesel demand in India seen immune to stepped price hikes
(Reuters) - India's demand for diesel will stay buoyant despite its plan to hike the price of the fuel in small monthly steps, analysts and company officials said on Friday, and the country will keep up the pace of its exports of diesel.
From Thursday, government allowed state fuel retailers to raise prices by up to 0.50 rupees, or one U.S. cent, a litre each month to gradually align them with market rates, and has also freed up the price of gasoil sold to bulk consumers.
The plan Read more [...]
‘Matru Ki Bijlee ka Mandola collects Rs22.4 crore in first weekend
Vishal Bhardwaj's Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola made Rs22.4 crore during its opening weekend. The filmmaker is content with the response to his new project, which is satirical in nature.
Our country is going through a massive transition. He wanted to make a film about the social and political scene in the country, but wanted to do it in a humorous tone. The response from the public and especially the young adults, has made him realise that Indian audiences are open to satire that does not Read more [...]
Hafeez demands more Test matches for Pakistan
Pakistan player of the year Mohammad Hafeez wants his cricket board to schedule more Test matches for the national team. Pakistan's Test matches are restricted after rival teams refused to tour the country following a gun attack on the Sri Lanka squad in 2009 but the national
Twenty20 captain still believes more Tests are possible.
"I would ask the board to take up this issue and try to schedule more test matches for us because I believe players only develop by playing test matches Read more [...]
Are You Living with stress?
(China Daily) Millions of people suffer stress everyday and increasingly with tragic consequences. Some suffer in silence. Others try a host of remedies to cope with the strain of modern living.
Here, in our special report, we analyze and highlight the reasons why we worry. Look at the troubling road to how we have become a world superpower in stress and consider what can be done to ease the growing tide of pressure on the nation's workforce.
Nearly eight out of 10 Chinese workers became Read more [...]
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