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SAARC countries must focus on fighting terror

Six years after the Mumbai terror attacks, the menace of terrorism still continues to plague the South Asian region. Speaking on the first day of the SAARC Summit today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly reminded the SAARC countries of their pledge to combat terrorism. Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani was more direct in his attack on Pakistan as he criticised "state actors for using non-state elements as political tools and providing them with safe havens".

Former MoS Dasari Narayana Rao faces coal heat

Congress leader and former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayana Rao is in for trouble with the Enforcement Directorate turning the heat on him in connection with coal blocks allocated to companies owned by Congress MP Naveen Jindal. ED has alleged that a company owned by Jindal gave an unsecured loan of Rs.2.25 crore in 2008 to a trading firm (ND Exim), which used it to buy new shares of a company (Sowbhagya Media) owned by Rao at about four times the market price.

Praying for Phil Hughes

Phillip Hughes, the Australian batsman who needed emergency surgery after being knocked out by a cricket ball, remained in a critical condition on Wednesday. Hughes underwent more scans at during the morning and that his condition was unchanged. The 25-year-old Hughes was batting for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday when he was felled by a sharply rising delivery that struck him behind the left ear.

New Trailer to mark 1,000 weeks of DDLJ

When Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge released on October 20, 1995, no one would have expected that Simran and Raj's love story would still be running even 19 years later. The film completes 1,000 weeks at Mumbai's Maratha Mandir theater on December 12, 2014. To mark this, Yash Raj films have released a new trailer. The trailer itself is a little underwhelming, as it merely compiles some of the key moments in the film. But of course, the nostalgia of generations of DDLJ fans will ensure its virality.