Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) Mirabai Chanu on Tuesday bettered her own national record enroute to winning the ongoing senior National Weightlifting Championships in Kolkata. Mirabai lifted a total of 203 kg to win the 49 kg gold, bettering her previous record of 201 which she had achieved at the World[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The 2019 World Wrestling Championship bronze medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya is gunning for his maiden continental title at the upcoming Asian Wrestling Championships (AWC), to be held in New Delhi from February 18-23. He also won a gold medal in the 61 kg weight category[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Bharti Airtel continues to bleed with the Sunil Mittal company posting a consolidated net loss of Rs 1,035 crore in Q3 (Oct-Dec) against a net profit of Rs 86 crore in the same period of the last fiscal. The company hinted at further hike in[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Producer Anand Pandit, who has been working with Abhishek Bachchan in the upcoming film “The Big Bull”, is all praises for the actor. According to Pandit, Abhishek is committed to everything he takes up. “Abhishek believes in acing everything he does and he is very committed[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court against Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s upcoming film “Shikara: The Untold Story Of Kashmiri Pandits”, demanding a stay on its release and deleting some of the scenes. “Shikara” is set against the backdrop[Read More…]
Panaji (Goa), Feb 4 (IANS) FC Goa will begin life without Sergio Lobera on Wednesday when they take on Hyderabad FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. The Gaurs will look to keep up the momentum in order not to lose out in the race for the top spot which[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Sharpening his revised pro-Hindutva stance, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray will take to the streets on Sunday, leading a procession to throw out illegal Pakistani-Bangladeshi migrants. The party has launched teasers for the campaign and Raj Thackeray will be joined by his son Amit[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Actors Neeraj Kabi and Geetanjali Kulkarni along with Danish Hussain, Sheeba Chaddha will bring alive a story about love, friendship, politics and heartbreak, in the upcoming web series “Taj Mahal 1989”. The Netflix series also stars Anud Singh Dhaka, Anshul Chauhan, Paras Priyadarshan, Shiri Sewani, Mihir[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Election Commission on Tuesday named IPS officer Rajender Prasad Meena to take charge as DCP, Southeast Delhi, immediately and that a compliance report along with his taking charge report be sent to it. Meena, a 2010 AGMUT batch officer, was currently Additional DCP, Northeast.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) POCO, an independent brand from Chinese handset maker Xiaomi, on Tuesday launched X2 smartphone in India at a starting price of Rs 15,999 for the 6GB+64GB configuration. The phone is available in two other storage configurations: 6GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB storage variants for Rs 16,999 and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Kunwar Bidhuri, Himmat Singh and Hiten Dalal scored half centuries as Delhi reached 270/6 against Gujarat at stumps on Day 1 of their Elite Group A and B Ranji Trophy clash here on Tuesday. Opener Dalal set the tone with 69 off 130 balls, his[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) The Kolkata police have busted a gang which defrauded people by promising to arrange “friendship” with high class men and women and arrested six people including two women, a senior officer said on Tuesday. The arrests were made from Jadavpur police station area on the basis[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (IANS) Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has said that India can create 100 million jobs with necessary policy changes and by tapping some low hanging fruits. “See, there are certain low hanging fruits which can be tapped. The intervention of solving these problems does not require a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Away from the limelight, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was spotted playing playing volleyball with his group of friends in the Maldives as Team India get ready to take on New Zealand in the ODI series after sweeping the T20I series 5-0. A video of Dhoni playing[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 4 (IANS) Twitter has revealed that it has suspended a large network of fake accounts that exploited a bug to match usernames to phone numbers. “While we identified accounts located in a wide range of countries engaging in these behaviours, we observed a particularly high volume of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Citing inaction and unnecessary delay, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu Advocate General to tell it, by February 14, when will the Assembly Speaker decide on disqualification petitions filed in March 2017 against Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and 10 other MLAs[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Soon after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Tuesday, Samir Dwivedi, the son of senior Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi, lost no time in bashing the Shaheen Bagh blockade. Leaving the veteran Congress leader surprised, Samir Dwivedi said that he was inspired by Prime[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Producer Rajan Shahi, who came up with the ongoing daily soap “Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai” in 2009, feels it is one of the finest shows of his life, and wants to bring a positive change in society through it. ” ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) An adorable video of a dog getting its own sledge and riding down the snow has won the Internet. The brown furry friend, who looks just like the famous sleigh dog Balto, comes running down the snow, holding the plastic sleigh in its mouth. Drops[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) In her bid to secure a podium finish at the Tokyo Olympics, former world champion Mirabai Chanu said that she wants to lift 210 kg at the Asian Championships in April. Chanu on Tuesday bettered her own national record by two kilograms enroute to winning the[Read More…]
Bhopal, Feb 4 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has been trending in India on the Twitter charts since Monday, and the veteran politician can thank Bollywood glamour for as much. Nath happened to attend the press conference of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in the city.[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (IANS) Two senior IPS-rank officers of the Karnataka cadre have been booked for their alleged role in the multi-crore IMA ponzi scam that rocked the state last year, a CBI official said on Tuesday. “We have booked an FIR against 11 accused, including Karnataka cadre IPS officers[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said more than 30 people have died in the state over the panic created regarding a proposed countrywide National Register of Citizens and cautioned the masses not to be candid or hand over papers if somebody goes to[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Model Angela Krislinzki is still trying to find her feet in Bollywood as an actress, although she has regularly been turning heads with her style quotient. We will get to see her once again on the big screen this weekend in the action thriller “Malang”, starring[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Lawyers for Nirbhaya’s parents on Tuesday made a urgent mentioning before Justice Suresh Kumar Kait of the Delhi High Court seeking early disposal of the Centre’s plea for vacating the stay on the death warrants against the four convicts in the gang-rape and murder case.[Read More…]
