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New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Legendary shooter Abhinav Bindra has tipped P.V. Sindhu to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics next year, after the ace shuttler became the first Indian to win gold at the badminton World Championships in Basel, Switzerland. Sindhu demolished Nozomi Okuhara of Japan 21-7, 21-7 in[Read More…]

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New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The civil aviation regulator here on Monday asked passengers not to carry certain type of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops due to safety concerns with the device. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops, sold[Read More…]

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The Delhi government which has been praised for its work on the Health sector, has only added 394 beds between 2014-15 and 2017-18, the Delhi Assembly was informed on Monday. In a reply to a question raised by BJP MLA O.P. Sharma, Health Minister Satyendar[Read More…]

Los Angeles, Aug 26 (IANS) It was in April 15 1912 when the Titanic — then the world’s largest passenger ship — sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, taking down more than 1,500 passengers and crew. Since then, many documentaries and movies have been made on the incident. National Geographic[Read More…]

Chennai, Aug 26 (IANS) The Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday released a fresh set of photographs of the surface of the moon and its craters taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera-2 of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. According to ISRO, the pictures were taken on August 23 at an altitude of[Read More…]

Chennai, Aug 26 (IANS) With normalcy returning to Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district after a clash between two groups, political leaders on Monday condemned the damaging of the Ambedkar statue in the town following group clashes. In a statement issued here, DMK President M.K. Stalin condemned the destruction of B.R. Ambedkar’s[Read More…]

Dublin, Aug 26 (IANS) As contractors in the Irish city of Cork listened to over 1,000 Siri recordings per shift before Apple suspended the programme last month, they regularly heard drug deals, sensitive business deals and even recordings of people having sex picked up by Apple’s digital assistant, a media[Read More…]

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 26 (IANS) Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor continues to face attacks from party colleagues for supporting the stance of two other party leaders — Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Jairam Ramesh — that demonising Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the time would not work. While on Sunday, Kerala[Read More…]

By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Left red-faced after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Ethics Officer D.K. Jain asked National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid to depose before him on September 26 over the Conflict of Interest allegations levelled against him, the Committee[Read More…]

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A 27-year-old citizen of Nepal was arrested from South Delhi for allegedly supplying fake Indian currency notes (FICNs) in India from Pakistan through the Indo-Nepal border, the police said on Monday. The Police recovered counterfeit currency with face value of Rs 5.50 lakh in denomination[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Enterprise information security spending in India is set to grow 12.4 per cent from 2018 to hit $1.86 billion this year, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. “The growth of enterprise spending on information security in India will continue to grow unabated to reach over[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) National Award-winning actor Upendra Limaye says his dream was to be a cricketer but his parents didn’t allow him to take up the sport. “I wanted to be a cricketer but my parents didn’t allow me to pursue that and they wanted me to make a[Read More…]

Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) On a day, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced a mass outreach programme, a host of leaders from new Union Territory of Ladakh, joined the BJP in the presense of Ladakh MP Jamyang Namgyal. On joining the BJP from the Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP, Haji Anayat Ali, Chairman,[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Indian markets took it in their stride the trade-related tensions troubling overseas markets and advanced sharply on Monday on the back of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s measures announced last week to combat slowdown and improve foreign investor confidence. Both the Sensex and Nifty surged over 2[Read More…]

Panaji, Aug 26 (IANS) A BJP-backed students panel which won the Goa University Students Council election on Monday, dedicated the victory to veteran BJP leader Arun Jaitley who passed away on August 24. “We have won the election, which is a thing to be pleased about, but our party has[Read More…]

Biarritz (France), Aug 26 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as “fake news” a report which said that he suggested using nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes from hitting the country. Trump, who was meeting world leaders at the G-7 in France, took to Twitter to hit out at[Read More…]

Dublin, Aug 26 (IANS) Contractors in the Irish city of Cork had the task of listening to over 1,000 Siri recordings per shift, before Apple suspended the programme last month, a media report said. The contractors had the job of listening to and grading recordings by Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri,[Read More…]

Panaji, Aug 26 (IANS) If Goa does not provide fair and efficient taxi transportation service, the coastal state will lag behind as a tourism destination, the stakeholders of the state’s oldest travel and tourism body said on Monday. Savio Messias, President, Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG), also backed[Read More…]

Chandigarh, Aug 26 (IANS) A man set himself afire in Sonepat district on Monday during the Jan Ashirvaad Yatra of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, the police said. The man, identified as Rajesh of Rathdhana village, who suffered 80 per cent burns, was hospitalised in a hospital in Rohtak[Read More…]