New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea by home buyers seeking it pass a direction to recover Rs 42.22 crore paid by the Amrapali group to former Indian cricket captain M.S. Dhoni as endorsement fee. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) After sitting sombrely for two hours at India Gate as she led a protest against the crackdown on Jamia students, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra mounted a scathing attack on the government and termed the Sunday’s action as “dictatorial”. She said Congress workers will be[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Rajnish Kumar on Monday said that National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is not the right platform for resolution of bankrupt small and medium enterprises (SMEs) Speaking to the media on the sidelines of an event here, Kumar said that[Read More…]
Islamabad, Dec 16 (IANS) Some 2,60,000 health professionals are taking part in a campaign launched, here on Monday, to immunise over 39.5 million Pakistani children after more than 100 polio cases were reported this year. “A national level campaign has been launched in four provinces in addition to Kashmir, Gilgit[Read More…]
Guwahati/Agartala/Shillong, Dec 16 (IANS) The 48th Vijay Diwas was celebrated in all the northeastern states on Monday by paying tributes to the Indian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, resulting in the creation of Bangladesh. Vijay Diwas is celebrated every year to mark the victory[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Instagram will now warn users if it detects potentially bullying language in captions before these are posted on the social network, a media report said. Facebook-owned social media app said that it will use Artificial Intelligence to spot possibly harmful language and give users an[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 16 (IANS) A girl was allegedly raped by a distant relative in the Satyabadi area of Odisha’s Puri district, the police said on Monday. While the incident occurred on Sunday, the complaint was lodged with the Satyabadi police on Monday. The accused, identified as Purna Chandra Das, is[Read More…]
By Anjana Das New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The venture capital firms and startups, here on Monday, sought support in the next budget to make India top startup nation, while the software and BPO industry urged parity in corporate tax rates for manufacturing and services firms and tax Esops (employee[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 16 (IANS) Several Bollywood celebrities posted opinions all through Monday on the amended Citizenship Act (CAA) and the countrywide tension it has unleashed, which was triggered off after Sunday’s protests at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who took a break from Twitter in August, made[Read More…]
By Arundhuti Banerjee Lonavala, Dec 16 (IANS) Actor Deepak Dobriyal believes that filmmakers should not make childrens film just for the sake of it. Instead, they should focus on the story. The actor’s debut Marathi film “Baba” was screened at the LIFFT Filmfotsav 2019, and was attended by a room[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (IANS) Students of Moulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) boycotted their examinations to stage protests on Monday in solidarity with the students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. The day-long protest by students remained peaceful with police keeping a tight vigil from outside the campus.[Read More…]
Guwahati, Dec 16 (IANS) The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which operates in the entire northeastern region and in some parts of Bihar and West Bengal, has cancelled all 16 Bengal bound trains on Monday due to agitations in various stations in the state against the new Citizenship Amendment Act, officials[Read More…]
San Francisco, Dec 16 (IANS) Google has halted the roll out of latest version of Chrome after a bug wiped data in select applications that use Android’s WebView feature. According to AndroidPolice, WebView is responsible for rendering web pages inside applications. This feature is used by several third-party applications to[Read More…]
Chennai, Dec 16 (IANS) Hitting out at the AIADMK, DMK President M.K. Stalin on Monday said the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would have been defeated in the Rajya Sabha had only the 11 members of Tamil Nadu’s ruling party voted against it. In a statement issued here, Stalin also said[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) While most of the Indian cricketers frequently post about their personal and professional life across various social media platforms, former India skipper M.S. Dhoni tries to keep everything a secret and rarely there comes a moment when he expresses something on his official Twitter, Instagram[Read More…]
Perth, Dec 16 (IANS) Australia’s Mitchell Starc may have opted out of the Indian Premier League this year, but his team mate David Warner has welcomed him to Sunrisers Hyderabad in an Instagram post. Warner on Monday posted a pic of Starc talking to him and New Zealand and SRH[Read More…]
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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 16 (IANS) In a gruesome case of mob lynching, a 30-year-old succumbed to injuries suffered when he was brutally attacked by a mob, here, said the police. The shocking incident took place last week when the 30-year-old Ajesh was beaten brutally by a group of auto rickshaw drivers[Read More…]
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Nagpur, Dec 16 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pravin Darekar was on Monday elected the new Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Leader of Opposition in Assembly Devendra Fadnavis announced Darekar’s name for the prestigious post, earlier held by Nationalist Congress Party’s Dhananjay Munde, who has now[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has led the protest at the iconic India Gate along with Congress leaders against alleged police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia. Priyanka Gandhi is accompanied by scores of Congress workers at the protest site. But missing in action[Read More…]
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By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Delhi Police Crime Branch will investigate the violence that took place during the protest by the Jamia Millia Islamia students, said Delhi Police spokesperson DCP Mandeep Singh Randhawa on Monday. While talking to reporters at the Delhi Police headquarters,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) After a security update of Delhi Metro in the morning said all entries have been reopened, by evening at least six stations were shut once again, citing security issues. First to get shut was Jamia Millia, the epicentre of Sunday’s violence. The Delhi Metro Rail[Read More…]