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The European Parliament insisted today there can be no discussion of future ties with Britain until the divorce conditions are finalised, rejecting a key demand of British Prime Minister Theresa May. MEPs added their voice to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who rebuffed May's call for negotiations for Britain's withdrawal to run alongside talks on a trade relationship after Brexit.

Amid crackdown on slaughterhouses across the state of Uttar Pradesh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has threatened to shut down all the shops which are cutting and selling meat or chicken on their premises with or without the certificate/licence. According to reports, the demands from the VHP members to close such shops have already started reaching the police officials in Noida. It has also threatened to unleash vigilante groups if the police fails to take action. The VHP says that even if the meat shops have a valid licence from the district administration, they cannot cut the meat of already slaughtered animals on the premises. The shopkeepers, however, cited practical reasons for cutting the slaughtered animal and selling at their shops. While earlier the slaughter of animals went unchecked at most of the shops in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad, the shopkeepers have now started buying already slaughtered chicken or goats from places like Ghazipur Mandi in Delhi or New Ashok N...

A 22-year-old resident of east Delhi knows first-hand what it is like to fall into the trap at a young age. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha) Cut, samaan or maal — these are words that a 38-year-old real estate broker wants to forget. What started as an experiment with a pinch of heroin 14 years ago has now hijacked his life. Lodged at a south Delhi de-addiction centre for the sixth time in seven years, the father of two is trying to get rid of a habit that has cost him family ties and his business. “I started abusing drugs when I was in Class X. The guard in my school gave it to me, saying it was ‘bhole ki booti’. I don’t remember if it was heroin, charas or ganja,

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday condemned the behaviour of Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who is accused of assaulting an Air India officer, saying people expect dignified conduct from members of Parliament. "As members of august bodies like Parliament, the country expects dignified behaviour from all of us," he tweeted. Prasad said he is "deeply distressed" over the Delhi airport incident involving the MP. His tweets, however, did not name Gaikwad. On Thursday , Gaikwad had repeatedly beaten a 60-year-old Air India duty manager with slippers as he was upset over not being able to travel business class despite having insisted on boarding an all-economy flight. The national carrier has filed two FIRs against the MP, while the Shiv Sena has sought an explanation from him.

Xiaomi Redmi 4A, the new budget smartphone from the Chinese technology company, will be launching in India today. This is Xiaomi’s second big smartphone launch for India this year. In January the company launched the Redmi Note 4 in India in three variants. The Redmia 4A is a successor to the Redmi 3, and the phone was first launched in China in November last year. With the Redmi Note 4, Xiaomi introduced the phone at three price points. Redmi Note 4 with 2GB RAM+32GB storage at Rs 9,999, the 3GB RAM+32GB storage variant at Rs 10,999, and the 4GB RAM+64GB storage version at Rs 12,999. However, it doesn’t look like the Redmi 4A will have a 32GB version yet, though you never know with Xiaomi.

The two-day India Today Conclave - India's most iconic ideas platform - saw a galaxy of speakers deliberating on 'The Great Disruption', including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, industrialist Mukesh Ambani, and superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The conclave, held last Friday and Saturday at Hotel Grand Hyatt in Mumbai, was a resounding success. Here's all that happened:

Police enforce curfew in Srinagar in July 2016 following the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani. The death led to one of Kashmir’s longest periods of unrest.

A man who drove to a security checkpoint near the White House in a car that was deemed suspicious has been detained by the U.S. Secret Service. On Saturday, The car was stopped about a quarter-mile from the White House. The Secret Service says it’s exploring. It hasn’t said what brought on the auto to be viewed as suspicious. Republican President Donald Trump wasn’t at the White House since he and his family are spending the end of the week at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Prior Saturday somebody hopped a low metal obstruction simply outside a White House fence. About seven days prior a man ruptured an external border fence and scaled a vehicle entryway to pick up passage to the White House grounds, bringing up issues about failures in security under the Secret Service’s watch.

Paris, France: Security forces at Paris' Orly airport on Saturday shot dead a man who took a weapon from a soldier, the interior ministry said. Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting at around 8:30 a.m. (0730GMT). The man fled into a shop at the airport before he was shot dead, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP. He said there were no people were wounded in the incident.

CHENNAI: International car racing champion Ashwin Sundar and his wife were killed in an accident on Saturday after their car crashed into a tree in Chennai after midnight. The accident happened at the Pattinapakkam area, on the Santhome High Road. Ashwin, 27, was the national champion in LGB F4 category in 2012 and 2013. His wife Nivedha, 26, was a doctor in a private hospital. A video of the blazing fire was posted on social media by eyewitnesses who said they were unable to rescue the couple due to the intense heat from the flames. Authorities said fire-fighters received the distress call at 1:51 am and a team was rushed to the scene but it was too late to save the couple.

It takes tremendous guts and b***s to shoo away an alligator who is having the time of his life at a lush-green golf course. Normally harmless creatures until you call for danger by doing something silly. No one can yet understand what was going on in the mind of 26-year-old golfer Cody Gribble when he decided to take things in his own hands and ask the alligator to get the s*** out of his golf course. This happened during the PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational this week at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Florida. Social media users brought references to Chubbs Peterson, played by Carl Weathers a.k.a. Apollo Creed, in the movie Happy Gilmore. The character of Chubbs Peterson was a pro golfer who was forced to retire early when his hand was bitten off by an alligator.

MUMBAI: Usually accustomed to spending most of their time making nuclear weapons, a group of scientists in India have developed a unique life-saving device. And a low-cost, affordable solution for the rural masses of India at that. It is estimated that one person in India dies due to a heart attack every thirty seconds. While adequate facilities exist in urban areas, rural and remote areas do not even have basic electro-cardiogram (ECG) machines or specialists who can read them. With them in mind, scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center have developed a credit card-sized Tele-ECG machine that can transmit an ECG over mobile phones to save lives. While imported commercial models are much bigger, heavier and 10 times more expensive, this 12-channel ECG machine costs just Rs 4,000 and is possibly the smallest of its kind. The machine can be recharged via a mobile charger and then the data can be transmitted via mobile network anywhere in the world to a specialist.

BJP’s ‘ally’ in Maharashtra Shiv Sena on Saturday congratulated the BJP for its unprecedented victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly elections and said that the Shiv Sena is now hopeful for the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. "Ram's period of exile has ended. We now hope that Ram temple will be constructed soon in Ayodhya," said Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut. Sena and BJP, who fought the recently held civic body elections in Mumbai separately, are not at best of the terms as this moment. Moreover, Shiv Sena has also criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his demonetization move. "The assembly results in five states are out. We welcome the win of BJP. We also congratulate the Prime Minister on this victory," he added. Referring to the Congress' win in Punjab, Raut said that people have voted for a change wherever there was a credible alternative to the incumbent government. In an apparent reference to the Samajwadi Party and its al...

Uttar Pradesh victory gives BJP and India chance of 7 years of stability

winners Assembly election 2017: Big winners and losersThe Big WinnersPM Modi has consolidated, beyond question, his status as India's most popular politician. Like Vajpayee, Modi is a great communicator; he is also the master of the mass mind. He struck a chord with aspirational voters, fashioning a mix of 'Vikas' and Hindu nationalism, and turned the charge of divisive politics on his opponents. While even a week can be a long time in politics, he looks strongly placed to defend his title in 2019. 

         After pink water flowed from the taps of a Canadian town, an Australian lake has now turned pink. In Port Melbourne, Westgate Park's salt lake is now a fabulous shade of pink instead of the customary blue. Unlike in Canada, where potassium permanganate contamination led to the change in colour, this lake turning pink is a natural phenomenon. "Westgate Park's salt lake has turned pink again this season: a natural phenomenon in response to very high salt levels, high temperatures, sunlight and lack of rainfall. Algae growing in the salt crust at the bottom of the lake produces the red pigment (beta carotene) as part of its photosynthesis process and in response to the extremely high salt levels," says a statement on the Parks Victoria Facebook page.

With Holi, the festival of colours round the corner, everyone must be busy buying colours and water guns. Though people loves to play with colours, water guns, water filled balloons during this festival, but it can also damage the hair and skin because of the harmful and toxic chemicals. Oiling One apply oil, such as olive oil, coconut oil, mustard oil on your face and body before and after playing with colours at least 20-25 minutes before playing with the colours and water. Moisturise You can also moisturize your skin with sunscreen all over your body, especially behind your ears and ear lobes as these are areas one tends to neglect. But make sure that the moisturizer has an SPF to avoid a tan from the sun. Clothing Always wear dark colour-full sleeves and full length bottoms to protect your skin. Nail paints Protect your nails from harsh effects of colours by painting your fingers and toes with nail polish. Water One should drink lots of water before you start playin...

Three persons were killed and 39 injured when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned at Khahnar village in east Jaintia hills, police said today. The vehicle, carrying 42 passengers, was overloaded and headed to a health camp in the area when it overturned yesterday, they said. “The driver lost control of the vehicle before it overturned, killing three persons on the spot and injuring others,” East Jaintia hills SP Spill Thamar said, adding 24 passengers are in critical condition. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and later shifted to Jowai and Shillong, Thamar added.

SAN FRANCISCO: Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan are going to be parents again! The Facebook CEO shared the news on his official page on the popular social media site this morning. "Priscilla and I are happy to share we're expecting another baby girl!

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According to three residents on Thursday, a number of individuals were killed in an assault that hit a mosque run by the militants and harmed neighbouring houses in the west of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday. The Omar al-Aswad mosque, in the al-Faruq locale of the old downtown area, was hit by an airstrike, three inhabitants in a similar region. Neighboring houses were harmed or crumpled in view of the impact, they said without giving an exact gauge of the setbacks as their moves are confined by the activists.

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Apple took the wraps off its latest iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus flagship smartphones back in September, 2016. The Cupertino tech-giant introduced not one, but two new colour variants namely Glossy Black and Jet Black. However, soon after the launch, rumours regarding the company’s plan to introduce more colours in the new smartphone began circulating. According to a report published by Macotakara sometime late last year, Apple is planning on introducing a white variant for the new iPhone device. In fact, the same website even suggests that a new Red iPhone 7 could be unveiled at the end of March along with the new iPad devices. Apple is expected to hold a launch event towards the end of March wherein the company is rumoured to announce four new variants of iPads.