Author: IANS

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) To alleviate the problem of shortfall of tomatoes in the city, Safal will provide from Friday tomato puree from all its outlets here at Rs 25 per 200 gram pack. This pack is equivalent to about 800 grams of tomatoes. Another larger pack of 825[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez is the first female celebrity to get visibility at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) airport. According to Mid-Day, she is now in a commercial at the KSA airport airport. This makes her the first woman celebrity to get visibility at the[Read More…]

Ranchi, Oct 10 (IANS) Ahead of the upcoming Jharkhand Assembly elections, cinema halls and multiplexes in the city have been asked to show the video clips of the voter awareness campaign, a statement said on Thursday. Jharkhand will go to assembly poll in November and December this year. The Election[Read More…]

Guwahati, Oct 10 (IANS) Indian Super League (ISL) club NorthEast United FC (NEUFC) coach Robert Jarni felt the senior India football team should expect a positive result against Bangladesh when the two teams meet in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Kolkata on October 15. Moments after the Blue[Read More…]

By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANSlife) Three designer labels from northeast India — Jenjum Gadi, Munkee.See.Munkee.Doo and Naturally Anuradha — made their way to the ramp on the second day of the Lotus Make-up India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2020 being held at the national capital on Thursday. Gadi’s[Read More…]

Islamabad, Oct 10 (IANS) In a diplomatic embarrassment, Pakistan has cancelled the appointment of a retired military officer as its envoy to Sri Lanka, after Defence Minister raised objections. In a statement issued on September 30, the Foreign Office said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had made a number of[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The special sessions court of Dharmesh Sharma conducting trial into the Unnao rape case, here on Thursday, concluded cross-examination of the victim’s mother in a case pertaining to alleged assault and murder of the victim’s father in the judicial custody in 2018. During the hearing,[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) India’s largest IT firm, TCS, on Thursday reported a 1.80 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase in its consolidated profit at Rs 8,042 crore for the second quarter ending September. The company’s revenue in the period in consideration grew by 5.80 per cent to Rs 38,977 crore.[Read More…]

By Troy Ribeiro “Gemini Man”; Cast: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen; Direction: Ang Lee; Rating: ** and 1/2 (two and half stars) The film begins with a promise. A snipper hits his mark aboard a silver-bullet train, from a distance of over two kilometres. For his razor-sharp precision,[Read More…]

Tehran, Oct 10 (IANS) The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged Turkey to stop its military operation in northern Syria. Iran expresses its concerns about Turkey’s military operation in Syria,” Xinhua quoted the Iranian ministry as saying in a statement. “Iran stresses the halt of Turkey’s military operation and withdrawal[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Enthused after the success of India’s first privately-run train by IRCTC, the Centre is mulling over a proposal to allow other corporates to commence luxury rail-road services on over 30 routes around the country. The government has formed an Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS), which[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday approached the Delhi High Court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and his Karti Chidambaram in the Aircel Maxis case. The matter is likely to come up for hearing on Friday. District and[Read More…]

Panaji, Oct 10 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Bench in Goa on Thursday refused to stay coal handling operations at the Mormugao Port Trust. It also sought pollution data on the port town of Vasco, before making a call in the case. The Bench, comprising of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog[Read More…]

Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) The quagmire that US President Donald Trump finds himself in leaves him undeterred as he sashays forth with great abandon. Even as the Dems want to unleash a slew of subpoenas against his inner circle, he trashes the idea of his popularity diminishing. The Twitter warrior[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) State-run BSNL on Thursday said its revival plans are under active consideration of the government through VRS and 4G spectrum allocation. “Recently, there have been published media reports on clsoure of BSNL. It is clarified that there is a plan under active consideration for revival[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) The makers of Ayushamann Khurrana’s “Bala” on Thursday announced that the film is preponed from November 15 to November 7. However, this change in the release date did not go down well with the producers of the upcoming film “Ujda Chaman”. Both films are comedies with[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Crisis-hit IL&FS Group has put 13 of its properties in prime locations across Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata up for sale and has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for the same. Out of the total 13 properties, 11 are in Mumbai. The properties put on the block[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) In major relief to duty free shops, the Bombay High Court has ruled that goods and services tax (GST) cannot be levied on products sold at the duty free shops in Mumbai airport. The two judge bench observed that the if duty free shops are subjected[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) A 22-year-old woman from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh won the ‘High Commissioner for a Day’ competition and the chance to be the UK’s top diplomat to India. Ayesha Khan spent the day overseeing the UK’s largest overseas network, chairing briefing sessions, networking with dignitaries and meeting[Read More…]

Agra, Oct 10 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Forest department officials in cooperation with NGO Wild Life SOS, today rescued a five foot long python and two venomous kraits. The kraits were rescued from a 10-feet deep borewell in Bilati village in Panwari area. The snakes rescued after 30-minutes operation were found[Read More…]

Nur-Sultan, Oct 10 (IANS) Smart cities not only make peoples lives easier, but they are also a boost to tourism, the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili, said Thursday. “Smart cities have enormous capacity to positively influence not only the lives of the people who inhabit them,[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Thursday slashed India’s gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for 2019-20 to 6.1 per cent for the second time in two months. Ind-Ra had earlier revised its GDP growth estimate to 6.7 per cent from its earlier forecast of 7.3[Read More…]