Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Newly-elected BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday reiterated that Bangladesh will tour India next month as per schedule as their Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has “given her consent” to attend the second Test match to be held in Kolkata. “It’s their internal matter. (But) the Bangladesh[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Described as the “greatest literary show on Earth”, the 2020 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will take place from January 23-27 at the historic Diggi Palace Hotel in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The festival authorities released the list of the first 25 speakers out of[Read More…]
Madrid, Oct 23 (IANS) The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on Wednesday decided that the first ‘El Clasico’ of the season between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid should be played on December 18. The game was due to be played this coming Saturday, October 26, but was postponed because of the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the much-awaited 4G spectrum allocation to ailing telecom PSUS — BSNL and MTNL — and gave in-principle approval to their merger while allowing them to raise sovereign bonds of Rs 15,000 crore for their revival. The allocation of 4G[Read More…]
New York, Oct 23 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook presented the keynote speech on climate change at the Ceres 30th Anniversary Gala in New York. Ceres is a non-profit company which aims to promote sustainable energy for the environment and the economy. At the event, Cook described how Apple views[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 23 (IANS) It would be Yesterday Once More for Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee in January when he returns to his alma mater Presidency University (Presidency College when he was a student there) to receive the distinguished alumnus award as also for an informal get together with[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria will visit Oman to witness the ongoing joint air exercise between India and Oman, defence ministry officials said here on Wednesday. This is the fifth bilateral Indo-Oman joint exercise, ‘Eastern Bridge’ between the Indian[Read More…]
London, Oct 23 (IANS) A murder investigation has been launched after 39 people were found dead in a lorry container in UK’s Essex on Wednesday, reports said. Essex Police said the vehicle travelled from Bulgaria and entered the UK on Saturday via Holyhead, Anglesey, over 300 miles from where the[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 23 (IANS) The Indian Navy has reduced the restricted development area for new constructions around Goa’s Dabolim international airport from a radius of 20 km to 4 km around the aviation facility, after a meeting with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Airport Authority of India and other officials, state[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 23 (IANS) A proposed marina project in the picturesque Nauxi bay in North Goa is facing stiff resistance from local residents as well as the BJP and the Congess, all of whom say that it will impact the livelihood of fishermen. However, Anytime Harbour of Yachts (AHOY) Private[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Actress Rashami Desai is already locked in the “Bigg Boss” house and her rumoured beau Arhaan Khan is expected to join her soon as a wild-card contestant in the house of “Bigg Boss 13”. Things Season 13 of “Bigg Boss” is getting hotter, going by what[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) In what comes as an Diwali gift for over 40 lakh people living in unauthorised colonies of the national capital, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved regularisation of these colonies. The decision was announced by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after the cabinet meet. In[Read More…]
Lucknow, Oct 23 (IANS) UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a compensation of Rs 15 lakh for the family of slain Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari. The chief minister also announced a house in Mehmoodabad tehsil in Sitapur district for the family. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Newly-elected BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday brushed aside the need for dual captaincy in the Indian team, saying Virat Kohli and Co. are the best team in the world right now and there is no need to change anything. Post the World Cup where India[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the cadre review of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), an exercise that was pending for almost 18 years. The decision for the cadre review of Group ‘A’ General Duty (Executive) cadre and Non-General Duty cadre of ITBP was taken by[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Oct 23 (IANS) Investigation has been initiated against a privately-run college for allegedly abetting the suicide of a harassed student, the police said on Wednesday. “An inquiry has been initiated into the role of Amrita School of Engineering in the death of one of its students, Sri Harsha, who[Read More…]
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New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) India on Wednesday issued a travel advisory for the Indian travellers visiting Turkey advising them to exercise “utmost caution” during their journey to the transcontinental nation following tensions with the United States. The government, however, clarified there have been no reports of untoward incident in[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) The Sensex closed higher on Wednesday, supported by gains in the auto sector which got a boost after better than expected results by Bajaj Auto. The benchmark Sensex closed 94.99 points higher at 39,058.83 after logging an intra-day high of 39,196.67 and a low of 38,866.08.[Read More…]
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 23 (IANS) The Odisha government on Wednesday invited potential investors to invest in the food processing sector in the state. “The government will assist all the investors and industrialists to set up units in the state,” Industries and MSME Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra said. The Industrial Promotion and[Read More…]
Beijing, Oct 23 (IANS) The Chinese scientists are constructing a cosmic ray observation station on an area equivalent to 200 soccer fields in China’s southwest Sichuan Province, 4,400 meters above sea level. Huge rocks left from the Ice Age have been blasted. Different detectors are being installed to form a[Read More…]
Abu Dhabi, Oct 23 (IANS) Cricket World Cup-winning England skipper Eoin Morgan has urged young cricketers to join him in the Abu Dhabi T10, as the global talent hunt programme to select eight budding cricketers gets underway. Abu Dhabi T10, the world’s only ten-over cricket league to be officially sanctioned[Read More…]
Rae Bareli, Oct 23 (IANS) Two rebel Congress legislators from Rae Bareli, Aditi Singh and Rakesh Singh, have chosen to stay away from party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s two-day workshop in her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s constituency. The absence of these two legislators, who are getting close[Read More…]