Bhubaneswar, Oct 4 (IANS) Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Pipili MLA Pradeep Maharathy passed away at a private hospital here. He was 65. The seven-time MLA had tested positive for Covid-19 on September 14. Maharathy passed away late Saturday. He was admitted to the SUM Ultimate Medicare. He[Read More…]
Cairo, Oct 4 (IANS) Egyptian authorities have unveiled a collection of 59 intact and sealed 26th Dynasty coffins, which were recently unearthed by an archaeological mission at the Saqqara Necropolis. On Saturday, the collection was unveiled in the presence of 60 ambassadors and international media representatives, the Al Ahram online[Read More…]
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Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 4 (IANS) A 16-year-old girl has forwarded a complaint of gang rape to the police on WhatsApp after she was found pregnant. The teen has claimed she was raped multiple times by three men during a course of over one-and-half years. A team led by a[Read More…]
BY VINOD MIRANI Somebody recently said Bollywood is a soft target! Is it? In what stalwarts prefer to call the Hindi Film Industry, there exists a fast swinging revolving door. Some stay for a while after entering, while others are thrown out immediately. Whoever said that the industry is a[Read More…]
Jammu, Oct 4 (IANS) Pakistan resorted to heavy shelling and firing on Sunday at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. At about 3.20 a.m., Pakistan initiated the unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars along the[Read More…]
New York, Oct 4 (IANS) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said that the state was responding to growing coronavirus clusters in 20 “hotspot” ZIP codes, as infection rates continue to soar just days after it restarted indoor dining and allowed more children to resume in-person classes. A statement issued[Read More…]
BY MAJOR GENERAL (RETD) S.B. ASTHANA The current China-India standoff in Eastern Ladakh has seen multiple rounds of talks failing to ease tensions, with continued troop build-up under the shadow of talks. While negotiations roll over to the seventh military-level talks amidst an environment of deep mistrust, there is very[Read More…]
BY D.C. PATHAK It is clearly established that apart from the external dimension of the threat to India’s national security emanating from the Sino-Pak alliance, a huge problem has arisen for India on account of the total collusion that now exists between these two hostile neighbours in the matter of[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 4 (IANS) Firefighters were continuing to battle two out-of-control wildfires raging in California, which have scorched almost 120,000 acres of land. In its latest update on Saturday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said that the Glass Fire, located in the Napa and[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) The re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump, who is currently in the hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, has announced the launched of “Operation MAGA”, a series of in-person and virtual events to be held throughout this month the November 3 election. In a statement[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 34.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,031,500, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday, the total number of cases stood at 34,791,855 and the fatalities rose to 1,031,528, the University’s Center[Read More…]
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) A lockdown project, which she started in January and wrapped up in June this year, the recently released fiction title ‘Club You to Death’ by writer Anuja Chauhan (HarperCollins India) may not be gory, but it has all the elements of ‘cozy[Read More…]
Nishabdham; Cast: Anushka Shetty, R. Madhavan, Michael Madsen, Anjali, Shalini Pandey, Subbaraju; Direction: Hemant Madhukar; Rating: * * (two stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY What could they have possibly said to Michael Madsen, to lure him into signing this one? Yes, Michael Madsen — Hollywood maverick of Kill Bill and Reservoir[Read More…]
London, Oct 4 (IANS) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have “agreed the importance” of finding a post-Brexit trade deal, Downing Street has said. They agreed progress has been made in talks between the EU and UK but “significant gaps” remain, Downing Street[Read More…]
Sharjah, Oct 4 (IANS/GloFans) Shreyas Iyer played a captain’s knock — 88 not out off 38 balls — to guide Delhi Capitals (DC) to a thrilling 18-run win, but not before Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) gave them some anxious moments towards the end of the 16th IPL game on Saturday[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Oct 4 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Telangana police, probing renegade slain Maoist-turned-gangster Nayeem’s nexus with politicians and police, have given clean chit to all 25 police officers whose names had surfaced during investigation. Y. Nagi Reddy, Inspector General of Police, SIT, informed an activist in a[Read More…]
Sharjah, Oct 4 (IANS) Delhi Capitals (DC) captain Shreyas Iyer called on his team mates to build on the good start to the season. DC scored 228/4 on Saturday and beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 18 runs in another high scoring thriller at the Sharjah International Cricket Stadium. Shreyas[Read More…]
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Oct 4 (IANS) The White House scrambled to clarify on Saturday afternoon the timeline of Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis, which got clouded earlier on Saturday after Trump’s doctor Sean Conley said the US president was diagnosed “72 hours” ago. In a morning briefing on Saturday,[Read More…]
Sharjah, Oct 4 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Dinesh Karthik on Saturday said that KKR will continue to bat Andre Russell higher up after their 18-run defeat to Delhi Capitals (DC) in another high-scoring thriller at the Sharjah International Cricket Stadium. Russell came in at no. 4 for KKR[Read More…]
Agartala, Oct 4 (IANS) India’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami on Saturday met Tripura Governor and Chief Minister and discussed various issues involving Bangladesh, officials said. Doraiswami, who succeeds Riva Ganguly Das as the Indian envoy in Bangladesh, also visited the under construction India-Bangladesh new 12.23 km railway[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday that the recent reforms undertaken by the government amid the pandemic — in mining, labour and agriculture, among other sectors — will strengthen India and prepare the country to engage globally from a position of[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Oct 3 (IANS) A sales executive and a cab driver, facing financial problems triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, were arrested for chain snatching in two separate incidents in Greater Hyderabad, police said on Saturday. Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwath confirmed the arrest of the accused by the police under[Read More…]
Ongole, Oct 3 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district police have completed a year since raising the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team on Saturday, in a bid to have the district’s own counter-terror and urban warfare force. “Prakasam district SWAT team is one of first such counter-terror forces to be[Read More…]
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Oct 4 (IANS) The timeline simply doesn’t add up. Exclamation marks are flying thick and fast around two competing versions of Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis timeline after White House doctor Sean Conley let slip a crucial detail on Saturday afternoon: “Just 72 hours into the[Read More…]
