New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court will, on Wednesday, pronounce verdict over the plea filed by the Centre challenging a sessopms order which stayed the death warrants issued against the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait had reserved the[Read More…]
Potchefstroom (South Africa), Feb 4 (IANS) India captain Priyam Garg rated their bowling attack as the best in the tournament after the colts strolled to the final of the U19 World Cup with a 10-wicket win over Pakistan here. In what is the first ever 10-wicket win in knockouts of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Calling the BJP-led government’s National Population Register (NPR) exercise the next step towards a National Register of Citizens (NRC), AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused it of creating an atmosphere in the country, similar to that created by Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) A former PDP MLA and a trade union leader were released from detention in Srinagar on Tuesday. Former PDP legislator Ajaz Mir was detained in the MLA hostel in Srinagar while trade union leader Shakeel Kalander was detained at the Central Jail. On Sunday, four mainstream[Read More…]
Potchefstroom (South Africa), Feb 4 (IANS) Centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal said its a dream come true for him to play so well in the World Cup and that too against Pakistan in the semi-final as India strolled to the final of the 2020 ICC U19 World Cup with a 10-wicket win[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) With the common man still facing the conundrum of whether to avail lower tax by foregoing all exemptions or stay with the old regime, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairperson P.C. Mody on Tuesday said that the unorganised sector is ought to be under[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Swami Vivekanand International School (SVIS), Kandivali thrashed Bunt Sangha’s S.M. Shetty International School, Powai by ten wickets on the second day of the Mumbai Indians Junior cricket tournament at Azad Maidan on Tuesday. Their dominating victory in the Under-14 category was set up by SVIS bowler[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP over its nationalism plank, asking whether a person, who makes two patriots fight, be called a nationalist. Addressing his first public rally for the Delhi assembly polls in[Read More…]
By Anindya Banerjee New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Never has any road in the history of electoral politics became so central as has Road No 13A connecting Delhi’s Sarita Vihar and Badarpur with Noida, passing through Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. It has been 51 days since the locals shut their[Read More…]
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The “inflammatory” pamphlet recovered from the laptop of JNU research scholar Sharjeel Imam was made on December 3 to mobilise a crowd against the CAA and the NRC and was shared through WhatsApp, mail and messenger with groups of students of the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Brent, the global oil benchmark, slid from a high of $70 a barrel to $53 over fear of Coronavirus turning into epidemic. The impact of the virus on economic activity in China has been likened to the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, a report said on Tuesday.[Read More…]
Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution demanding that India reverse its decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The resolution passed by the Pakistan National Assembly’s lower house demanded that India immediately reverse its decisions taken on Jammu and Kashmir[Read More…]
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The February 8 Delhi Assembly election is not going to be a cake walk for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in some constituencies. While on one hand, the AAP would like to retain seats held by crucial MLAs like Arvind Kejriwal and[Read More…]
Potchefstroom (South Africa), Feb 4 (IANS) India on Tuesday strolled to the final of the 2020 ICC U19 World Cup with a 10-wicket win over Pakistan here. In what is the first ever 10-wicket win in knockouts of the U19 World Cup, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a century as he and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Around 50 per cent of unsold housing stock across nine major cities in the country comprises affordable housing units, according to a report by PropTiger.com. As per the report titled ‘Real Insight Q3FY20’, there was a total unsold stock of 7.75 lakh units at the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) As many as 50 Pakistani Hindu families, comprising 200 people, crossed over to India through the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab as they were facing prosecution, and were desperately fearful there on account of their religion, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Actress Ishita Dutta and her “Bepanah Pyaarr” co-star Adhik Mehta recently recreated Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s iconic train scene from the 1995 film “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”. Adhik shared the picture on Instagram in which he can be seen extending his hand to Ishita while[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Electric, green and auto telematics technologies are set to rev up the 15th edition of Asia’s largest automobile show in terms of visitor footfalls. Slated to start for a select opening from Wednesday, the show will feature more than 15 start-ups, telecom, alternate fuel, electric[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 4 (IANS) The future of the iconic BlackBerry smartphones has once again come under a cloud as Chinese electronics group TCL has announced that it will stop selling BlackBerry phones later this year. In a note shared on Twitter on Monday, TCL Communication said it “will no[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) National weightlifting head coach Vijay Sharma expects Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics which will be a springboard for the teenager to become a medal prospect for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Jeremy bettered his clean and jerk record to clinch the[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Feb 4 (IANS) Ashton Kutcher says he will “never stop loving” ex-wife Demi Moore’s children. Kutcher, 41, was married to Moore, 57, for eight years between 2005 and 2013. During that time, he helped raise Moore’s three children from her prior relationship with actor Bruce Willis — Rumer,[Read More…]
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Hina Khan feels it was important to give a fitting reply to an unkind tweet posted Kamaal R. Khan, and the actress says she doesnt understand why people waste time by talking negative about “someone you dont know or someone who doesnt[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Investing in mutual funds may become less attractive as the government has proposed a tax on the income distributed by asset managers to unitholders. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget for 2020-21 has introduced a 10 per cent TDS (tax deducted at source)[Read More…]
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New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Hitting the campaign trail for the Delhi Assembly polls, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi-led Central government over the rising unemployment rate in the country, which is the highest in the last 45 years, and asked if it is a[Read More…]