By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Oct 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has turned the ongoing impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine into his signature “all-base, all-the-time” political rallying cry, calling opposition Democrats “crazy” and unpatriotic; he is framing the US pullout from Syria as “a great day for[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out raids at around eight places, including Dewan Housing Finance Corp Ltd (DHFL) offices and its promoters’ residences here, in a money laundering case against Iqbal Mirchi, who was a close accomplice of underworld fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, and his[Read More…]
London, Oct 19 (IANS) For the first time in 37 years, the UK Parliament will on Saturday to participate in what is being deemed as a “knife-edge” vote on Prime Minister’s Boris Johnson’s latest Brexit deal, a last attempt before the October 31 deadline to leave the European Union (EU).[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Saturday began search for six persons who were feared drowned when the car in which they were travelling fell into the Left Canal of Nagarjuna Sagar Project in Telangana’s Suryapet district, police said. The incident occurred on Friday[Read More…]
Ranchi, Oct 19 (IANS) In a bid to end his losing streak at the toss, South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis on Saturday brought Temba Bavuma as proxy captain for the third and final Test against India at the JSCA Stadium here. However, luck did not favour South Africa as[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Oct 19 (IANS) Brett Gelman, best known for his scene-stealing roles in “Fleabag”, “Stranger Things” and “Love”, has joined Michael B. Jordan in the adaptation of Tom Clancys “Without Remorse”. Jamie Bell and Jodie Turner-Smith are also on board, reports variety.com. Jordan is starring as operations officer John[Read More…]
Ranchi, Oct 19 (IANS) South Africa pacers came out with a brilliant performance as they scalped three wickets in the first session of the third and final Test against India, here on Saturday. At Lunch on Day 1, India were 71/3 with Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane batting at 38[Read More…]
By Saiyed Moziz Imam Mahendragarh (Haryana), Oct 19 (IANS) After a wipeout from south Haryana in the last Assembly elections, the Congress is looking for a revival in the region as a result of the growing discontent within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over distribution of tickets and the rift[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Superstar Salman Khan’s bodyguard Shera has formally joined the Shiv Sena on Saturday, just days before the Maharashtra Assembly polls. Party leader Aditya Thackeray tied a ‘Shiv Bandhan’ to Shera and welcomed him in to the Sena. The Shiv Sena took to Twitter on Saturday to[Read More…]
Colombo, Oct 19 (IANS) The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), headed by incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena, will on Saturday sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa to pledge support for his poll campaign. The MoU will assure that Rajapaksa, a former[Read More…]
Ranchi, Oct 19 (IANS) Left-arm Jharkhand spinner Shahbaz Nadeem on Saturday became the 296th player to represent India in Test cricket. Nadeem was included into the Indian playing XI in place of Ishant Sharma, who has been rested for the ongoing third and final Test against South Africa at the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Shoaib Akhtar has insisted that he has been telling Sarfaraz Ahmed to pull up his socks since last two years and therefore no one else is responsible for the sacking of the wicket-keeper batsman as Pakistan skipper in Tests and T20Is. “I saw it coming[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 19 (IANS) Malayalam award-winning filmmaker Jayaraj’s latest offering, “Roudram 2018”, based on the devastating 2018 Kerala floods, will be screened at the International Panorama Section of the 41st Cairo International Film Festival. “Roudram 2018” is Jayaraj’s seventh film in the “Navarasa” series. The Cairo International Film Festival, which[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Amid incidents of stone pelting in a few places, the day-long shutdown began in Telangana on a call given by the employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), whose indefinite strike entered the 15th day on Saturday. Transport services were hit as a majority[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Oct 19 (IANS) Amazon India on Saturday announced the Great Indian Festival – Diwali Special sale which will bring deals and offers on a wide range of items, including smartphones, laptops, cameras, large appliances, kitchen products and more. The special sale will start from midnight on October 21 till[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Arjun Kapoor has been roped in as the Brand Ambassador of Chelsea Football Club (FC) for India. The actor calls it a dream come true and a surreal feeling. Arjun on Saturday took to Instagram, where he shared a photograph of himself with Frank Lampard, the[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Oct 19 (IANS) Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu to seek the presidential nomination of a major party, has lashed out against a smear campaign by her Democratic Party’s leaders and their supportive media. Reacting to attacks by former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Gabbard on Friday[Read More…]
By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) India football coach Igor Stimacs comments on the lack of time with the national players before the World Cup qualifiers against Afghanistan and Oman in November owing to the running of the Indian Super League (ISL) hasnt gone down well with Football[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal will lead the respective Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams at the upcoming Olympic Qualifiers scheduled to take place on November 1st and 2nd at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium in Bhubaneswar. The two teams are scheduled to take part in[Read More…]
Barcelona, Oct 19 (IANS) Clashes erupted between riot police and over half a million citizens who took to the streets of Barcelona to protest against the hefty prison sentences recently handed out by the Spanish Supreme Court to several leaders of the Catalan independence movement. According to police figures, some[Read More…]
By Raghunath G. It has been nearly 13 months since the first sign of markets panicking in the aftermath of IL&FS default and the subsequent hammering down of the BFSI stocks. Enough has been speculated and muck thrown at the industry. Many experts have suddenly materialised and questioned the veracity[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) The US has announced a series of fresh sanctions against Cuba in retaliation over Havana’s support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The announcement of new sanctions, which will come into effect on October 21, was made by the US Department of Commerce on Friday through the[Read More…]
N0ew Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has joined the list of cricketers congratulating Sourav Ganguly who is all set to be elected as the next president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Yuvraj, while saying that Ganguly can enact the role of[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 19 (IANS) A court in the US has denied Facebook’s request to quash $35 billion class-action lawsuit against its alleged misuse of facial recognition data in Illinois. A three-judge panel of the ninth circuit judges in San Francisco rejected Facebook’s plea and the case will now go[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) A Boeing Co senior pilot had raised concerns in a series of messages in 2016 to a colleague about certain systems on the 737 MAX jet, which were later implicated in two fatal crashes leading to the aircraft’s global grounding. Boeing turned the information over on[Read More…]
