Author: IANS

Kochi/Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26 (IANS) After a day-long standoff, Trupti Desai, the activists who stayed put at the Kochi City Police Commissioner’s office with her team insisting police protection to visit the Sabarimala temple, decided to leave for the airport to fly back to Pune. “For the time being, we have[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying and Indias doubles poster boy Satwiksairaj Rankireddy turned out to be the most sought after players as they went to Bengaluru Raptors and Chennai Superstarz respectively while world champion PV Sindhu was retained by Hyderabad Hunters ahead of the[Read More…]

Mumbai, Nov 26 (IANS) Suddenly out of job as Deputy Chief Minister, Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar is certainly not out of the reckoning, both within the family and party, as dramatic political events unfolded here all of Tuesday. Contrary to speculation, he remained absent from the mega-meeting of[Read More…]

Gurugram, Nov 26 (IANS) KYC (know your client) is becoming a potent tool for cyber conmen to dupe people these days. Latest in the series of such crimes has been the complaint by the general manager of Ambience Mall to the cyber crime cell of the Gurugram Police on Tuesday.[Read More…]

Bengaluru, Nov 26 (IANS) Service sector is at the forefront of Karnataka’s industrialisation, with specific policies in aerospace, infrastructure, IT and startups, Large and Medium Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday. “Karnataka is a leader in medical education with numerous institutes of repute based in the state. It is well[Read More…]

Hyderabad, Nov 26 (IANS) Hundreds of employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) were arrested across Telangana on Tuesday to prevent them from joining duties after 52-day-long strike. Protests rocked TSRTC depots as the management refused to take back employees who reported to duties following the decision of their[Read More…]

Washington, Nov 26 (IANS) The White House was on lockdown on Tuesday morning due to a potential airspace violation. The North Lawn of the presidential residence was cleared and pedestrian traffic was restricted, as fighter jets were scrambled in the US capital city. The Capitol was also locked down with[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against directors and promoters of Vindhyavasini group in its probe into Rs 457-crore bank fraud case. A senior CBI official said here that the agency filed the chargesheet against its promoters and directors for allegedly[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) on Tuesday unveiled a stand named after former India opener Gautam Gambhir at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here. Gambhir, who was also present during the occasion, wrote on Twitter: “Arun Jaitley Ji was like a father figure to[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Indian insurance space is about to witness an exponential increase in “unique and unheard” products covering a cross-section of people, livestock and situations, as companies test niche policies. However, these products might be sometime away from actual introduction into the market space, since the[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) A promo posted by ongoing Bigg Boss 13 of an episode to be aired on Tuesday night caught the attention of Twitter users, who praised as well as flayed various contestants. Posted on Twiiter handle @BiggBoss was a message” “Learn convoluted English with teacher #ShehnaazGill[Read More…]

By Arul Louis United Nations, Nov 26 (IANS) India has criticised the negotiation process for Security Council reform saying it’s violating the fundamental rules of multilateral negotiations by failing to adopt a basic document for it and thereby making it a Sisyphian endeavour. There was “an unwillingness to follow basic[Read More…]

Mumbai, Nov 26 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister-designate and Shiv Sena President Uddhav B. Thackeray on Tuesday evening remembered his late father Bal Thackeray and thanked Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar for the trust reposed in him. Thackeray will be sworn-in as Chief Minister on[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Bollywood actor Anupam Kher’s social media video of a Senegalese woman speaking Hindi and a self-professed Hindi movie buff had social media users heaping praise on her and the actor. The 1.11 minute clipping was posted by Kher on Twitter and Instagram. The clipping got[Read More…]

Kolkata, Nov 26 (IANS) With the Supreme Court restoring the detention orders issued against the “uncle-nephew duo” of Ashok Jalan and Amit Jalan under the COFEPOSA Act, both the accused have surrendered and are now lodged in a correctional home here, a DRI official said on Tuesday. The Jalans were[Read More…]

San Francisco, Nov 26 (IANS) Google again finds itself in the midst of a controversy over its relationship with employees. The tech giant has been accused of “union busting” and retaliatory behaviour after it sacked four employees for allegedly violating the company’s data security policies. Two of these employees who[Read More…]

Kochi/Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26 (IANS) Right wing activists returned to resume their protests at the Kochi City Police Commissioner’s office on learning that Trupti Desai and her six-member team had stayed put there, refusing to return to depart from the city without offering prayers at the Sabarimala temple, despite a 12-hour[Read More…]

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Maharashtra’s new Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government, after taking over, is likely to announce a farm loan waiver scheme by cutting on the state’s share in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious 508-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed train project. According to the top NCP leadership, the three parties have[Read More…]

Mumbai, Nov 26 (IANS) The placards at Hotel Trident where the legislature party meeting of three parties — Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress — was being held, announced: “We love you Ajit Dada Pawar.” Despite being absent, the rebel NCP leader let it be known loud and clear: he has[Read More…]

Panaji, Nov 26 (IANS) Several top elected politicians in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir, including a Chief Minister, could land in prison on account of corruption, which enabled them to buy homes and stakes in hotels across the world, Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik said here on Tuesday.[Read More…]

By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) “Indira Gandhi’s assassination left the country in a shock. Since she was killed by Sikh policemen, the whole Sikh community was portrayed as murderers by a particular community due to which riots broke across the country. The news reached the[Read More…]