Author: IANS

Los Angeles, Oct 11 (IANS) Actress Ruby Rose loved the script of “Batwoman” since the beginning, and is glad that it was a perfect fit for her. “Well, first I had a meeting with Sarah (Sarah Schecter) and Caroline (Caroline Dries) just to talk about whether I’d be interested in[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) Actor Rajkummar Rao says he decided to sport unibrow in “Made In China” because of director Mikhil Musale. Rajkummar, who essays the role of the lead protagonist Raghu Mehta, gained eight kgs and to get the round belly for the role, and decided to include unibrow[Read More…]

New York, Oct 11 (IANS) US equities advanced amid a new round of trade talks between China and the US. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday jumped 150.66 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 26,496.67. The S&P 500 increased 18.73 points, or 0.64 per cent, to 2,938.13, Xinhua news[Read More…]

Los Angeles, Oct 11 (IANS) Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee doesn’t believe in living with regrets, and says it is important to live in the moment instead of fretting about the past. Asked what would he say to his 23-year-old self, Lee said: “Ah, I’d tell him to f**k off!”[Read More…]

New York, Oct 11 (IANS) As US President Donald Trump heads out to his first 2020 rally since the impeachment inquiry began, he took questions from reporters at the WH. Displaying equanimity and calm, he took questions in a rapid fire from reporters gathered there, nowhere did he show any[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Former promoters of pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh and his elder brother Malvinder Singh, have been arrested in a Rs 740 crore fraud case, sources said. According to sources, Shivinder was arrested on Thursday evening while Malvinder was arrested late at night, after a lookout[Read More…]

Jakarta, Oct 11 (IANS) Indonesia’s Security Minister Wiranto was stabbed by a man who police say was “inspired” by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The Minister, who uses one name, was getting out of a car in a town square in Banten province when he was attacked on Thursday.[Read More…]

Islamabad, Oct 11 (IANS) Pakistan, which has backed Turkey’s attack in northern Syria, will welcome the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who arrives here on a two-day visit on October 23. Erdogan, who will be visiting Pakistan on an invitation by Prime Minister Imran Khan, will meet the top political[Read More…]

Lahore, Oct 11 (IANS) Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested four aides of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on Thursday, ahead of the Financial Action Task Force’s crucial plenary meeting in Paris next week. The arrested suspects were Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Aziz, Muhammad Ashraf, and Abdul Salam. The four will appear[Read More…]

Bengaluru, Oct 11 (IANS) Mysore Maharaja Jayachamaraja could be best described as the most eminent monarch-democrat, President Ram Nath Kovind said at his centenary celebrations on Thursday. The President gloriously invoked Jayachamaraja as an exceptional ruler and an able administrator at the illuminated and decked up Amba Vilas Palace in[Read More…]

New York, Oct 11 (IANS) US stocks traded on an upbeat note on Thursday amid the fresh round of US-China trade talks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 193.36 points, or 0.73 per cent, to 26,539.37. The S&P 500 climbed 23.71 points, or 0.81 per cent, to 2,943.11, Xinhua news[Read More…]

Mysuru, Oct 11 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday attended the birth centenary celebration of Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar of Mysore. In his address on the occasion, the President, who reached Karnataka on a three-day visit on Thursday, said that Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar (1919-74, reigned 1940-50), was an exceptional ruler[Read More…]

By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Oct 11 (IANS) A combative White House has vowed to defy what it calls an “illegitimate” impeachment inquiry opened for only the fourth time in US political history. As White House defiance grows, Democrats turn up the heat and polls find support for impeachment, we[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has attached a bungalow of a promotor of Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) in connection with the Rs 4,355 crore Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank fraud case. Spread over 5 acre, the Diwan Bungalow located in[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Experts have called for judicial reforms and regulation of social media platforms for fair elections in the country while discussing the experiences from 2019 Lok Sabha polls, here on Thursday. They also suggested ways to address the challenges in the wake of changing dynamics of[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday questioned Congress MP D.K. Suresh, the brother of former Karnataka Minister D.K. Shivakumar, on the second consecutive day in connection with the money laundering case against the Congress leader. The questioning comes as Shivakumar remains in jail for a[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Just don’t do anything and the forests and the ecosystem will revive — is the message of noted conservationist Bitu Sehgal, contending that forests are “more valuable” than all the human-created infrastructure put together. “We are not just talking about trees. We are talking about[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Tata Motors Group on Thursday reported a decline of 27 per cent in September’s global wholesales, including that of Jaguar Land Rover, over the corresponding period of last year. According to the company, the global wholesales during the month under review declined to 89,912 units. “Global[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday issued a list of spokespersons and media panelists deputed to monitor media outreach for the October 21 Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra. Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal issued the list of six such leaders who have been deputed to monitor[Read More…]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 10 (IANS) Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Thursday seized around 12.9 kg gold worth about Rs 5 crore from the Mumbai-bound Jnaneswari Super Deluxe Express midway in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district. Two persons have been detained in connection with the seizure. A team of DRI[Read More…]

Mysuru (Karnataka), Oct 10 (IANS) President Ramnath Kovind reached Mysuru from Nashik in Maharashtra on a three-day visit to Karnataka, an official said on Thursday. “State Governor Vajubhai Vala received the President and his wife Savita Kovind at the airport,” the official told IANS. The heritage city is about 150[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) India and Thailand here on Thursday discussed ways to enhance physical and digital connectivity between them as well as identifying areas for cooperation in fields such as agriculture, science and technology, and information technology, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The issues were discussed in[Read More…]