New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Actress Ananya Panday is on a mission to clean up social media by doing away with abusive language and creating positivity through her campaign. She says the idea didn’t stem from her own experience of being bullied online. It’s more because she wants to set[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 3 (IANS) Five assembly constituencies in Kerala go to the polls on October 21 to elect new legislators. In four constituencies, the resignations of the sitting Congress legislators who won the recent Lok Sabha polls is the reason for the fresh polls. Vattiyoorkavu constituency in the state capital[Read More…]
Visakhapatnam, Oct 3 (IANS) Mayank Agarwal on Thursday became the fourth Indian batsman to convert his maiden century into a double hundred. Playing his fifth Test match, Mayank played a superb knock of 215 in the first innings of the first Test between India and South Africa at the ACA-VDCA[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) If you take your smartphone to the toilet, chances of getting piles may go up as using the device in the loo may make you spend a longer time there, increasing the pressure on the veins of the anus in the lower rectum, health experts[Read More…]
By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Critics like to see Rishabh Pant as a talented but careless youngster. But there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes which many aren’t aware of. While some have called Team India’s decision to pick Wriddhiman Saha over Rishabh Pant[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up canalization of the state’s three eastern rivers of the Indus Water System as a national project, to enable conservation of water and enhancement of the region’s economic growth. In his[Read More…]
Bangkok, Oct 3 (IANS) Southeast Asia’s Internet economy is estimated to hit $100 billion in 2019, a 39-per cent increase compared to 2018, according to industry forecasts released on Thursday. The annual “e-Conomy SEA” report presented by the Singapore-based investment firm Temasek also projected that the region’s digital economy could[Read More…]
By Subhash K Jha “Gumnaami” (Bengali film); Cast: Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya; Script and Direction: Srijit Mukherjee; Rating: *** and 1/2 (three and half stars) Srijit Mukherjee is unarguably the most prolific filmmaker of contemporary Bengali cinema. He switches from intimate human portraits to wide-canvassed bio-pics with the ease and[Read More…]
Adampur (Haryana), Oct 3 (IANS) It is BJP’s glamour challenge to Congress candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi, the son of stalwart of Haryana’s dusty and defection-ridden politics and three-time Chief Minister – late Bhajan Lal, in this Jat-dominated seat. The BJP has pitted small screen actress and greenhorn activist Sonali Phogat against[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Oct 3 (IANS) After breaking up with each other, reality TV star Kylie Jenner and rapper Travis Scott have decided to share equal custody of their daughter, Stormi. A source told US Weekly: “It will be 50/50, but it’s not a point of contention. It’s really whatever is[Read More…]
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New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday indicated that it is not going to dilute the stringent provisions of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, while reserving the order on pleas challenging validity of the Amendment Act. A bench headed by Justice Arun[Read More…]
Islamabad, Oct 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday met the Afghan Taliban delegation here and said that the ongoing Afghan war can only be resolved through dialogue. According to a press release issued by the Foreign Office, Qureshi welcomed the Taliban delegation at the Foreign Ministry[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Even as he asserted that the state government was fully prepared to counter the resurgence of terror threat from Pakistan, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday advised against linking this issue with the religious occasion of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Olympic medallist American sprinter Carmelita Jeter was on Thursday announced as the international event ambassador for the 15th edition of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2019 scheduled for October 20. Jeter holds the record for the second-fastest timing in 100m (10.64 seconds) behind Florence Griffith-Joyner, who[Read More…]
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By Durga Chakravarty New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) From the pages of comicbooks to a a popular video game, and from a hit telly-series to the cult “Batman” movies, the Joker has been one the most eccentric and the eclectic supervillains in fiction. As Joaquin Phoenix stars in the title[Read More…]
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 3 (IANS) Deepti Sharma, a school teacher in Meerut, has built a unique house with her husband at Hartola village in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, using plastic bottles. Abhishek Anand, the co-owner of the house, said: “We bought land and started building the house in February 2017[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Congress has released the names of six more candidates for the Assembly elections in Haryana. And with this, the Congress list of candidates for the 90-seated Assembly is complete. The six candidates are Venu Singla Aggarwal from Ambala Cantt., Bishan Lal Saini from Radaur,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) India opener Rohit Sharma impressed everyone with his swashbuckling knock of 176 against South Africa in Visakhapatnam and even former Pakistan speedster Shoiab Akhtar couldn’t stop himself from lauding the right-handers’ effort. Posting a video on his official YouTube handle, Akhtar said he had acknowledged[Read More…]
By Sumit Kumar Singh New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Indias federal financial investigative agency, has issued instructions to its investigators to use original content of its findings instead of relying on probes conducted by other agencies, sources in the agency said on Thursday. The move came[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (IANS) At least 29 people including 22 women have been arrested in Odisha’s Ganjam district for allegedly forcing six elderly men to consume human excreta and uprooting their teeth over suspicion of witchcraft, police said on Thursday. According to police, the incident happened in Gopapur village on[Read More…]
Visakhapatnam, Oct 3 (IANS) If it was the Rohit Sharma show in the morning session on the second day of the first Test between India and South Africa, the afternoon session belonged to his opening partner Mayank Agarwal. Having played second fiddle till Rohit made hay, the youngster rose to[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal on Thursday supported Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies to be allowed in all telecom operations in India, hinting towards even 5G trials saying their products are extremely good and efficient. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross earlier in the day[Read More…]