Los Angeles, Feb 17 (IANS) Singer Justin Bieber, who dated singer-actress Selena Gomez on-and-off for years, has spoken about his past mistakes. During an interview with Zane Lowe, while talking about his new album, “Changes”, and a song that’s about true love, Bieber was asked about knowing he needed time[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Three persons including an engineer were killed and three others injured when an under-construction bridge on Farakka barrage collapsed in Baishnabnagar of West Bengal’s Malda district on Sunday night, officials said. However, Congress MLA Moinul Haq claimed four people had died. Several labourers trapped beneath the[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 17 (IANS) Nearly 4 million workers from China’s primary-level medical and health institutions have played an important and unique role in the fight against the coronavirus, a health official said on Sunday. The medical institutions include both community health service centres in cities and clinics in rural areas,[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 17 (IANS) Online healthcare services have been assisting the fight against the novel coronavirus in China, thanks to the application of information technology in medical systems. Based on 5G and other information technology, many Internet healthcare service providers have cooperated with doctors and experts all over the country[Read More…]
Wuhan, Feb 17 (IANS) China’s Hubei Province, the centre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, announced on Sunday a slew of wide-ranging and more stringent measures to control the epidemic. The measures include enforcing province-wide traffic restrictions on all non-emergency vehicles and closing all non-essential public venues, according to a circular[Read More…]
Taipei, Feb 17 (IANS) Taiwan confirmed two new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number to 20, and reported the first death caused by the epidemic, the island’s epidemic monitoring agency said Sunday. One of the two new cases was a man in his 60s living in central Taiwan who had[Read More…]
Wuhan/Shanghai, Feb 17 (IANS) Twenty recovered coronavirus patients donated their plasma to those in severe condition in Wuhan, capital of the hard-hit province of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), said the province’s COVID-19 scientific research team on Sunday. The donors are doctors and nurses who have recovered from the disease[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) An unknown poisonous gas leaked from a container at a port in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi killing at least five people, while 70 others fainted, the police said. Deputy Inspector General of Police of South Karachi Sharjeel Kharal told media that the gas leaked when[Read More…]
London, Feb 17 (IANS) A plane has pulled off an extraordinary landing at Heathrow Airport, after contending with powerful headwinds brought by Storm Dennis. Footage shows the pilot’s skilful manoeuvre, as the Etihad Airbus A380 aircraft hovered sideways over the runway before successfully landing on Saturday, a report in British[Read More…]
By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANSlife) Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan says there may be a hidden model in her as she loves walking on the ramp. “I love walking the ramp. May be I’m a hidden model. I get to meet such beautiful designers, wear their clothes,[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 17 (IANS) Actor Harshvardhan Rane will be seen sharing screen space with Taapsee Pannu and Vikrant Massey in the upcoming film “Haseen Dillruba”. Written by “Manmarziyaan” fame writer Kanika Dhillon, “Haseen Dillruba” is a murder mystery. “It’s definitely one of the most quirky films I have come across….It’s[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Two labourers were killed and several others injured when an under-construction bridge on Farakka barrage collapsed in Baishnabnagar of West Bengal’s Malda district on Sunday night, officials said. Several labourers were believed to be trapped beneath the rubble after the bridge being constructed under the supervision[Read More…]
By Arul Louis United Nations, Feb 17 (IANS) US Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the Security Council resolutions on Kashmir have to implemented – and although he did not make a reference to it, the main resolution requires Pakistan to withdraw from the areas it occupies. Guterres, who is[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 16 (IANS) Karisma Kapoor posted a couple of pictures on Instagram to mark her father Randhir Kapoor’s 73rd birthday. The birthday was a Kapoor family affair and Karisma, who couldn’t make it, posted a group picture on Instagram Stories that features Randhir surrounded by the family, reports hindustantimes.com.[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 17 (IANS) A combative ruling BJP is bracing to face the onslaught of the opposition Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in the year’s first legislature session beginning on Monday. “We are ready to counter the opposition parties on any issue they want to raise or discuss, keeping[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Cracks have started to emerge among the Shaheen Bagh protestors with several of them trying to grab the media attention and showcase themselves as leaders. On Sunday, a large number of activists gathered at Shaheen Bagh and decided to visit Home Minister Amit Shah’s house[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) At least two inmates sustained minor injuries after a clash between two groups of prisoners in Tihar Jail complex’s Jail No 4 here, officials said on Sunday. According to jail officials, eight inmates were affected out of which two had to be taken to hospital[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 16 (IANS) China is carrying out, in Mao style, one of the biggest social control exercises in history in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. According to the New York Times, China has flooded cities and villages with battalions of neighborhood busybodies, uniformed volunteers and Communist Party representatives[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Anti-CAA protests broke out at various places in Hyderabad on Sunday, even as the police continued to deny permission for the protests. Men and women came out on the streets at different places raising slogans against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens[Read More…]
Gandhinagar, Feb 16 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Sunday evening announced that ignoring the controversial 2018 GR (government resolution), it will carry out the women LRD recruitment as usual, seeking to end the imbroglio that put the government in a fix as the 2018 decision had started an agitation among[Read More…]
By Saiyed Moziz Imam New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) After its rout in the Delhi Assembly election, a major reshuffle is expected in the Congress where more faces from GenNext are set to be inducted in the party organisation and the Rajya Sabha as well. The Congress is weighing options[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) A day after former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s supporters thrashed a youth for chanting a religious slogan, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad took pot shots at him. “Heard he calls himself descendant of Lord Krishna. But in his own rally a man who took[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Displaying political propriety Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal exchanged good-natured remarks, here on Sunday. While the Prime Minister congratulated the Chief Minister for taking oath, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said they must work together to make the national[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Arvind Kejriwal, a common man of Delhi, is now a special as the bureaucrat-turned-politician took oath of the Chief Minister’s office for a third time. For the first time, Kejriwal became the Chief Minister of Delhi for the first in 2013 for 49 days, then[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 16 (IANS) A police constable died after slipping off a bridge while overseeing rescue work following an accident in which a car fell off from the same bridge in Telangana’s Karimnagar district on Sunday, police said. One person died and his wife was injured when the car in[Read More…]
