New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Tuesday taunted the BJP over its defeat in the Delhi assembly elections saying AAP won and the “bluff and bluster” lost. He said the people of Delhi have defeated the polarising and divisive agenda of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will visit the Hanuman temple in Connaught Place here after addressing the volunteers at 3.30 p.m. at the party office to celebrate the hat-trick in Chief Minister office. The national convener also visited the temple, a day before the[Read More…]
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New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday sentenced NGO owner Brajesh Thakur to imprisonment for the remainder of his life in connection with the sexual and physical assault of several girls at his shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. Additional Session Judge Saurabh Kulshrestha had on January[Read More…]
Ferozabad, Feb 11 (IANS) An Inspector and a Station House Officer have been suspended following the murder of the father of a rape victim by the accused on Monday night. The suspended police personnel are inspector Shikohabad and Kotla Road SHO fro dereliction of duty. The rape victim’s family told[Read More…]
Tehran, Feb 11 (IANS) Hundreds of thousands of Iranians participated in nationwide rallies on Tuesday to mark the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. In different cities, people took to the streets, chanting anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans, reports Xinhua news agency. In Tehran, the demonstrators burned US and Israeli flags.[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 11 (IANS) South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, who made history by winning Best Picture Oscar for his film “Parasite”, became the most tweeted-about celebrity from the guest list at 92nd Academy Awards ceremony. “Parasite” created history at the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony by winning four out of the[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 11 (IANS) After LG electronics, Ericsson, Nvidia, Sony, Amazon, now Intel, Vivo, and NTT Docomo on Tuesday cancelled their presence at Mobile World Congress 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. “Vivo has been closely monitoring the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) outbreak and continuously evaluating planned activities. The[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) With Arvind Kejriwal looking all set for a third term as Delhi Chief Minister, congratulatory wishes are pouring in from leaders cutting across party lines. Chief Ministers of Kerala and West Bengal wished Kejriwal as the trends of Delhi Assembly poll results showed a clean[Read More…]
By Sugandha Rawal Rishikesh, Feb 11 (IANS) Actor Karan Jotwani has struggled with depression, and feels tackling the malady is always an ongoing battle. The actor says depression never completely goes away, adding that he now knows how to detach himself and channelise his energy somewhere else in order to[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 11 (IANS) “The Modi-Shah magic has failed in Delhi,” was a terse reaction from Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on the impending victory of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi elections on Tuesday. “Congratulations to Arvind Kejriwal-ji and AAP workers for achieving a ‘sweeping[Read More…]
By Navneet Mishra New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Hectic campaigning and a lot of work by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) brought some fight to the Delhi Assembly elections which otherwise would have become a one-sided affair, Shyam Jaju, BJP national vice-president and Delhi in-charge, told IANS on Tuesday. He[Read More…]
London, Feb 11 (IANS) Researchers have revealed that having genetically higher testosterone levels increases the risk of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes in women, while reducing the risk in men. Higher testosterone levels also increase the risks of breast and endometrial cancers in women, and prostate cancer in[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The AAP’s victory in Delhi assembly polls has yet again brought the focus on election strategist Prashant Kishor and his firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), which first changed the contours of political campaigning by introducing Narendra Modi’s famous ‘chai pe charcha’ campaign in 2014[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 11 (IANS) Senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar was booked under the stringent Public Safety Act for exhorting people to read Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s book while he was the state’s education minister, among other reasons, according to a dossier accessed by IANS. He was also[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Feb 11 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday stressed improving early warning dissemination system and capacity building for the conservation of cultural heritage sites. Addressing the 2nd BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Disaster Management Exercise here, the Chief Minister said the[Read More…]
Lahore, Feb 11 (IANS) An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of two terror financing cases involving against Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) who mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, till February 18. The ATC was to initially announce its verdict[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) India U-17 womens football head coach Thomas Dennerby wants his charges to try and imbibe a quicker passing game as they get ready for the U-17 World Cup slated to be played in the country in November. The team, as part of their preparation, have[Read More…]
Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh) Feb 11 (IANS) A three-year-old girl has been raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district. The incident has led to an outrage with people blocking the Sitapur-Delhi highway for several hours on Tuesday. Senior police officials reached the spot and assured the people of strict action[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) As Aam Aadmi Party’s supporters celebrated outside party office here over its return to power in Delhi for the third time, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his family celebrated his wife Sunita Kejriwal’s birthday on Tuesday. Kejriwal’s family, including wife Sunita, father and two children,[Read More…]
Jerusalem, Feb 11 (IANS) In a massive breach, an election app named Elector in use by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party exposed sensitive personal data — including identity card numbers, full names and addresses of the country’s entire national voting registration of about 6.5 million citizens. The Authority[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday described the Aam Aadmi Party’s win in the Delhi Assembly polls as a victory of democracy and said the people did not want divisive politics. Banerjee, who made a phone call to AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister[Read More…]
Colombo, Feb 11 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that 10,607 dengue cases were reported from across the country last month, a 90 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. The Ministry’s Epidemiology Unit said the highest number of cases were reported from Colombo at 1,693,[Read More…]
Patna, Feb 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister and JD-U chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday just said “public is supreme”, when asked to comment on the Delhi assembly poll results. Nitish Kumar was speaking to reporters after inaugurating a statue of Jan Sangh leader Deen Dayal Upadhyay at Rajendra Nagar here.[Read More…]
Manila, Feb 11 (IANS) The mayor of a city in southern Philippines whose name figured in the controversial “narco-list” prepared on the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, was shot dead in Manila, the police confirmed on Tuesday. Abdul Wahab Sabal, 45, was shot dead on Monday night at the entrance[Read More…]
