Author: IANS

Tehran, July 30 (IANS) Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has been sentenced to death for killing his wife, officials said on Tuesday. Najafi’s second wife Mitra Ostad was shot dead at her home in the northern district of the Iranian capital on May 28. Najafi confessed to the murder[Read More…]

Colombo, July 30 (IANS) Over 6,000 drunk drivers have been arrested in Sri Lanka over the last three weeks in a special island-wide operation, the police said on Tuesday. A total of 6,315 such drivers were arrested from across the country as of Tuesday in the special operation which will[Read More…]

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) E-commerce company Snapdeal on Tuesday said that it has removed 8,000 sellers from its platform, in the last eight months, for selling counterfeit products. The company, in a statement, said that its anti-counterfeiting program “Brand Shield”, which was launched in November 2018, offers a single[Read More…]

San Francisco, July 30 (IANS) A 33-year-old woman hacker broke into over 100 million customers’ personal data in a massive breach at the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, exposing credit scores, balances, income information and Social Security numbers. Paige A. Thompson, who goes by the handle “erratic,”[Read More…]

Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Veteran actress Shabana Azmi has been roped in for Faraz Arif Ansari’s LGBTQ drama “Sheer Qorma”. She is looking forward to start working on it. Shabana will be seen as a mother in the film, which also stars Swara Bhasker and Divya Dutta. “Divya Dutta recommended[Read More…]

Moscow, July 30 (IANS) The Russian military on Tuesday launched a Soyuz-2.1 carrier rocket with the Meridian communications satellite. The rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s northern Arkhangelsk region at 8.56 a.m. (Moscow time) and the satellite separated from the rocket nine minutes later, said the Defence[Read More…]

By Archana Sharma Jaipur, July 30 (IANS) The Rajasthan government on Tuesday ordered a CB-CID probe into a rape victim’s self immolation case at Vaishali Nagar police station here on Sunday following which she succumbed to burn injuries on Monday. Sanjay Godara, the SHO at the police station, was also[Read More…]

New York, July 30 (IANS) Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor completed 10 months in the Big Apple on Tuesday. He is undergoing medical treatment in New York. “Today, 30th July, is ten months here in New York,” Rishi tweeted on Tuesday. The actor’s wife and veteran actress Neetu Singh has remained[Read More…]

Bangkok, July 30 (IANS) The long-running trade dispute between the US and China, and simmering territorial disputes in the South China Sea will be among the key issues in focus during a ministerial-level meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) that begins in Bangkok on Wednesday. US Secretary[Read More…]

Bhopal, July 30 (IANS) Mob-lynching episodes owing to the spread of child lifting rumours on various social media platforms like WhatsApp are back in the state and this time, the authorities are concerned about the ferocity of such misinformation attack. In Madhya Pradesh, child kidnapping rumours in the past three[Read More…]

Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Actor Suniel Shetty returns to the big screen with “Pehlwaan”, and says he loves his look in the Kannada action-drama. Suniel’s look as a wrestling coach was shared on Tuesday. With rustic touch, Suniel is seen wearing ‘desi’ attire and staring into the camera with intensity.[Read More…]

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Actor Govinda has claimed that James Cameron offered him a lead role in his blockbuster film, “Avatar”. The actor also claimed it he who suggested the film’s title to Cameron. “I gave the title of the film (Avatar). It turned out to be a superhit.[Read More…]

Chennai, July 30 (IANS) J. Deepa, the niece of late Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa, on Tuesday quit politics citing personal reasons and said her party had merged with the ruling AIADMK. Speaking to reporters, Deepa said: “I have taken the decision to quit politics.” Deepa said[Read More…]

Dhaka, July 30 (IANS) In one of the worst outbreak of dengue in Bangladesh, over 1,000 people, majority of them children, have been diagnosed with the disease in the last 24 hours, according to officials on Tuesday. While over 50 districts across the country had been affected, Dhaka, the national[Read More…]

Hong Kong, July 30 (IANS) Protesters blocked access to commuter trains in Hong Kong on Tuesday, causing widespread disruption during the morning rush hour. Hong Kong has seen eight consecutive weekends of anti-government protests that began in early June in opposition to a now-shelved bill that would have allowed extradition[Read More…]

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that reservations are intended to achieve equality of opportunity, while hearing a bunch of applications on the 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019 that provides 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS). A bench headed by Justice S.A.[Read More…]