Hong Kong, Sep 20 (IANS) A senior Hong Kong government official on Sunday called for support from lawmakers in the third round of anti-pandemic fund to fight Covid-19 and revive the economy. Chief Secretary for administration, Matthew Cheung said in an online article that he will strive to win the[Read More…]
BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Actress Payal Ghosh has claimed that filmmaker Anurag Kashyap tried to molest her once, recalling an incident when he got naked in front of her and tried to get intimate with her. In an interview to IANS, the upcoming Bollywood actress opened[Read More…]
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that he expected a nominee to replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be announced “next week”, and that it will “most likely” be a woman. The President made the remarks to reporters on Saturday night as he walked[Read More…]
Mumbai, Sep 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has denied all sexual assault allegations levelled against him by actress Payal Ghosh, saying the charges are baseless. “Wow, it took so long in the attempt to silence me. Never mind… in a bid to silence me, you have dragged another woman in[Read More…]
Hanoi, Sep 20 (IANS) At least three people were killed and 113 others injured as typhoon Noul lashed some provinces and cities of Vietnam over the past few days, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Sunday. Three deaths were reported in the provinces Thua[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A lot has been written about the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing role in liberating Bangladesh. But, little is known about the challenges R&AW spies had to face following Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s murder in August 1975. The unprecedented crisis, a senior R&AW officer[Read More…]
Kabul, Sep 20 (IANS) Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry on Sunday said 4,776 IEDs were discovered and defused across the country in the past six months. In a statement, the Ministry said the IEDs had been planted by the Taliban on public roads, in residential areas and on highways, reports TOLO News.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Centre will move four Bills on Sunday for consideration and passage during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. The National Forensic Sciences University Bill, 2020; Rashtriya Raksha University Bill, 2020; Bilateral Netting of Qualified Financial Contracts Bill, 2020; and Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020[Read More…]
Mumbai, Sep 20 (IANS) Actress Delnaaz Irani has been entertaining fans mostly with her comic roles, but she wants people to see her in a new light now. “I believe I am a good actor who happens to excel in comic roles. I really want people to see me in[Read More…]
San Francisco, Sep 20 (IANS) Apple Arcade has added Marble Knights, a new fantasy adventure game from WayForward Technologies, to its growing catalog of over 130 games. The title comes from indie outfit WayForward, developers of “DuckTales: Remastered” and “Double Dragon Neon,” and offers players a mixture of sword-swinging fantasy[Read More…]
Islamabad, Sep 20 (IANS) Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has warned that as many as 20 million girls may never return to schools even after the global Covid-19 crisis is over, the media reported on Sunday. Speaking at a side event of the UN General Assembly on[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Sep 20 (IANS) Odisha has reported 4,330 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike so far taking the state’s total tally to 1,79,880, said a state health official on Sunday. The Covid-19 death toll increased to 701 in the state with 10 new fatalities[Read More…]
Islamabad, Sep 20 (IANS) Two Pakistani soldiers were killed during a security operation against militants in North Waziristan, an army statement said. Without mentioning the time of the operation, the statement by the military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday night said that the armed offensive was[Read More…]
Wellington, Sep 20 (IANS) New Zealand reported four new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the nationwide tally to 1,464, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. Of the four new cases, two were community cases and two were at managed isolation facilities, Xinhua news agency reported citing the Ministry[Read More…]
Mumbai, Sep 20 (IANS) The Covid-19 lockdown has helped many explore skills beyond what they usually do. While most have been cooking, baking, kitchen gardening and even cutting hair, some Bollywood actresses turned beauty experts for fans, with skin and haircare solutions and make-up tutorials on social media. Here are[Read More…]
San Francisco, Sep 20 (IANS) In a surprise move, Oracle and Walmart have come together to save TikTok from the ban, forming a new company called TikTok Global which will be headquartered in the US. President Donald Trump said he has given the deal his blessing. Trump on Saturday announced[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah is to lay papers on the table in the Lok Sabha and introduce Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 along with two other Bills for passage, revised list of Business of the lower House reveals. It will be his first[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Even as the government introduced two of the three contentious farm Bills in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday, the Upper House witnessed ruckus for a brief period when a YSR Congress Party member used the word “dalal” for the opposition Congress. Speaking in the House,[Read More…]
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) The US claimed that all pre-2015 UN sanctions against Iran had been restored, a unilateral effort ignored by the international community. In a statement on Saturday night, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the sanctions were being re-imposed according to the “snapback” mechanism under UN[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) As Alexa in Hindi celebrates its first anniversary in India, the company is hopeful that her knowledge graph will improve and it will talk to millons of people in several regional languages in the near future. Today, users from India make hundreds of thousands of[Read More…]
San Francisco, Sep 20 (IANS) In a surprise move, Oracle and Walmart have come together to save TikTok from the ban, forming a new company called TikTok Global which will be headquartered in the US. President Donald Trump said he has given the deal his blessing. According to a report[Read More…]
London, Sep 20 (IANS) England white-ball batsmen Jonny Bairstow and Dawid Malan are expected to be announced as new recruits to the Big Bash League over the coming days. As per a report on dailymail.co.uk, the duo are set to sign for Melbourne Stars and Hobart Hurricanes respectively with Jason[Read More…]
United Nations, Sep 20 (IANS) Ahead of the high-level meetings of the UN scheduled for Monday, the international community expects world leaders to make collective efforts to address global challenges. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the UN which finds itself standing at another juncture in human history given[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Pakistan has been eliminating its Sikh population for decades through killings, rapes, abductions and forced marriages of young women, yet it is funding and fuelling Khalistani terrorism and separatist movement globally to achieve it sinister plans to break up India, a Canadian expert has said.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Taking a dig at the Centre’s claim to double the income of farmers by 2020, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien on Sunday said that it cannot be doubled before 2028. Discussing the contentious farm Bills introduced in the Rajya Sabha, the TMC member said: “The[Read More…]
