Los Angeles, Oct 17 (IANS) Hollywood star Britney Spears is back with her signature blonde look. Spears, who has returned home after vacationing in Maui, recently shared a video where she flaunts her new hair colour, reports dailymail.co.uk. Along with the video, she wrote: “So maybe blondes do have more[Read More…]
Paris, Oct 17 (IANS) French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will go to Iraq evening to discuss the situation in the region amid the Turkish offensive, and outline a judicial framework allowing foreign Islamic State (IS) militants to be prosecuted in countries where they were detained, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Oct 17 (IANS) One Direction band star Harry Styles has surprised one of his fans by giving her advice on her love life “at 4am” in a direct message on Twitter. The user, called Tisha, shared a screenshot of her conversation with Harry, with a large heart emoji[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Oct 17 (IANS) “Riverdale” star KJ Apa says essaying role of Archie Andrews in the popular show came as a challenge as he struggles to find time to go to gym. “I try to go to the gym every day, but it’s hard. It’s a grind. That’s probably[Read More…]
Tripoli, Oct 17 (IANS) The Libyan navy said that it rescued 90 illegal immigrants off the country’s western coast. “After a very difficult operation because of sea disturbance, a search and rescue coast guards patrol rescued 90 illegal immigrants, including seven women two of whom are pregnant,” Ayob Qassem, navy[Read More…]
London, Oct 17 (IANS) One Direction star Liam Payne has hinted that he is a little frightened of his ex-girlfriend Cheryl. The The 26-year-old singer has opened up about his relationship with the mother of his son, Bear, two. He revealed the former Girls Aloud star, 36, can be “strict”[Read More…]
United Nations, Oct 17 (IANS) The UN Security Council voiced deep concern over the situation in northeast Syria after Turkey launched a military incursion into the region last week. “The Security Council expressed deep concern over the risk of the spreading of terrorists from UN-designated groups, including ISIL,” South Africa’s[Read More…]
Bhopal, Oct 17 (IANS) The Economic Offences Wing in Madhya Pradesh has registered a preliminary enquiry against Vivek Agrawal, former Principal Secretary in the Urban Development Department in Madhya Pradesh. EOW director general Sushoban Banerjee said a complaint has been received against Agrawal and some officials of Smart City Development[Read More…]
Agartala, Oct 17 (IANS) In a major setback for the Left parties, former PWD and Finance Minister Badal Choudhury’s arrest by the police is imminent as District and Session Court has in a midnight order rejected the ex-Left government’s senior minister’s anticipatory bail plea in an alleged corruption case. West[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) Two Bhutanese citizens were arrested after a Royal Bengal tiger skin was seized from them in Belakoba forest range of Jalpaiguri distict, forest department sources said. Acting on source information, the taskforce of Belakoba range carried out an operation and apprehended the two smugglers at Hasimara[Read More…]
Moscow, Oct 17 (IANS) Russia’s defence industry should diversify into manufacturing civilian products in order to be financially stable, President Vladimir Putin said. “In addition to the main work and creating groundwork for new generation equipment, defence industry organisations are faced with large-scale tasks to increase the production of civilian[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) The Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Wednesday said Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd scam prime accused and its ex-chairman S. Waryam Singh is not cooperating with the probey. In its application seeking extenstion of remand for Singh and HDIL Directors, the EOW said[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The ‘Go Girls Go’ pilot project being funded by The Netherlands government in four Delhi government schools is helping adolescent girls in the schools complete their education and empower them as change makers. The project also helps to sensitise adolescent boys to gender equal norms[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 16 (IANS/AKI) Ties between Italy and the US “have never been so good”, US President Donald Trump told his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella during his one-day visit to Washington on Wednesday. “Relations between Italy and the US have never been as good as they are right now,” Trump[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 16 (IANS/AKI) The protracted conflict in Libya could destabilise the whole of Africa, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Wednesday after talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump. “There is great concern about the situation in Libya, which threatens the stability of the entire African continent,” Mattarella told[Read More…]
Hyderabad/ New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday watched Telugu movie “Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy” along with its lead actor and former Union Minister Chiranjeevi. Venkaiah Naidu and his family members along with Chiranjeevi and others watched the movie at the Vice President’s residence in[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lavished praise on BCCI President-elect Sourav Ganguly, calling him “ghorer chele” (member of my household). Expressing happiness at Ganguly getting the post at a comparatively young age, Banerjee said: “Sourav to amader ghorer chele (Sourav is a member[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Punjab, which has a large area under paddy cultivation producing around 20 million tons of paddy, is having to cope with managing a similar amount of paddy residue of 20 million tons. Punjab government has submitted to the National Green Tribunal the steps that it[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Reliance Jio has alleged incumbents, including state-run BSNL, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have fraudulently masquerading wireline numbers as mobile numbers for receiving terminating charges as mobile numbers and not paying relevant charges in wilful and blatant violation of existing laws. The Mukesh Ambani company[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) With all-weather friend China heading the FATF, and backed by two other “brotherly countries” of Malaysia and Turkey, Pakistan has bought itself four months time from the global watchdog on terror financing to eliminate the twin evils of terror financing and money laundering – a[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday repeatedly goofed up in taking the name of this year’s Nobel prize winner in Economics Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, as she went on referring to him as “Abhishek Babu”. Speaking to media persons after a cabinet meeting, Banerjee said[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Haryana is taking a number of steps to curtail crop residue burning, including diversifying rice area to maize crop and daily monitoring of fire burning incidents. Paddy stubble burning incidents in neighbouring states like Haryana have been identified as among the reasons for high pollution[Read More…]
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) revealed that former Union Minister and Nationalist Congress leader (NCP) Praful Patel used private jets of Punjab and Maharashtra (PMC) Bank fraud accused Wadhawans, the agency on Wednesday claimed that it has identified more properties[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) At least over 15 trains were delayed on Wednesday evening after angry protesters pelted stones on passing trains near Tughlakabad station following the death of a person who was run over by a train, officials said. The rail traffic was restored after one hour. Northern[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Junking its earlier order of issuing challans to motorists ‘violating’ speed norms over 60 km/hr on National Highway 24, Delhi Traffic Police on Wednesday said that as per the new order, vehicles travelling within the speed limit of 70km/hr on[Read More…]
