Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) The heat is on in the “Bigg Boss” house, which turned into a hospital for a luxury task. The fight over tea leaves continues and this time housemates Shenaz Gill and Mahira Sharma have come under the radar. An irritated Shehnaz loses her cool and sets[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Yes Bank said that the heavy selling on Tuesday came on account of the forced sale of about 3.92 per cent of the bank’s equity share capital, triggered by an invocation of pledge on the equity shares of a large stakeholder. The private lender, which closed[Read More…]
Larkana, Oct 2 (IANS) A judicial probe has been launched into the death of Namrata Kumari, a final year student of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. According to a report in Pakistani media, the judicial commission has sent notices to fellow students, the[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 2 (IANS) The Goa government’s claim of an open defecation free (ODF) state has come under a cloud with even Chief Minister Pramod Sawant being forced to admit that declaring Goa an ODF state was necessary to avoid national embarrassment. While the Congress has alleged that the government[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Committee of Administrators (CoA) have sent out a notice to the members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the elections that will be held at the headquarters in Mumbai on October 23 at 11am. The committee has harped on[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Even as Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana are less than three weeks away, the top leadership of the Congress is yet to hit the campaign trail in the two states where it aspires to wrest power from the BJP. Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) “Dream Girl” actor Abhishek Banerjee, also a casting director, says there is so much to learn in a casting room and so, casting direction should be a compulsory internship for actors. The alumnus of Delhi’s Kirori Mal College arrived in Mumbai over a decade ago[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Indian Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat on Wednesday met Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who hailed efforts to revitalise the bilateral defence cooperation. Gen Rawat is on a five-day official visit to Maldives since September 29, which is aimed at giving a boost to the[Read More…]
London, Oct 2 (IANS) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said there should be “no doubt” the only alternative to the Brexit proposals he will put to Brussels later is no-deal. Addressing his party conference in Manchester, Johnson said his plan would be a “compromise by the UK”, but[Read More…]
By Subhash Narayan New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The government has decided to rely on cash-rich central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) to rescue its strategic sale programme, with tepid interest coming from the private sector to take over controlling interest in some of sick and loss-making companies. DIPAM (Department of[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that an international version of Apple Card is in the works. “We want to offer the cards everywhere,” Cook told. In an interview with German publication Bild, Cook said they needed suitable partners as launching a credit card was[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) : A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court issued a production warrant against Yasmeen Kapoor, a close aide of corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, in a money laundering case relating to an illicit aviation deal. Special CBI Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj passed the order here[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) As many as seven convicts lodged in Odisha jails were released under the amnesty scheme as part of commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, said an official here on Wednesday. The prisoners were released under the special remission scheme. Five convicts were released[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to a new book. The book, by two New York Times journalists, says Trump suggested extreme methods of deterring migrants from crossing the southern border, the BBC reported on Wednesday. They[Read More…]
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday apologised to the people of Patna for the water-logging after the heavy rainfall. The senior BJP leader said that water-logging in the state capital was not a natural calamity, but a result of mismanagement. “As there is a NDA government[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Kumar Singh Chauhan New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has raided the accounts section of the DCP office in Outer Delhi in connection with alleged financial irregularities amounting to lakhs of rupees, a police official said here on Wednesday. The Vigilance[Read More…]
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) When Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers play in the first ever NBA India Games in Mumbai, the level of basketball on display will leave fans in the country “shocked” as they will be in for a treat, feels NBA legend Jason Williams. “I[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Rohit Sharma turned a new leaf on Wednesday as he not only scored a century in his first innings as a Test opener to put India in the driver’s seat at the end of the opening day of the first Test against South Africa, but[Read More…]
Ulan Ude (Russia), Oct 2 (IANS) Young Indian boxers will look to draw inspiration from the legendary M.C. Mary Kom and shine at the World Women’s Boxing Championship which gets underway here on Thursday. Six-time champion Kom is a contender yet again and she will be desperate to bag a[Read More…]
Shimla, Oct 2 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday launched a scheme to buy back non-recyclable, single-use plastic waste with a minimum support price of Rs 75 per kg at a function to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. As per estimates, the total[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) In a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has penned an op-ed piece in The New York Times, calling Gandhi as the “best teacher” and proposed an “Einstein Challenge”. Enumerating his government’s work in the field of sanitation,[Read More…]
Agartala/Aizawl, Oct 2 (IANS) People from various walks of life in Tripura led by Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday. Deb led a huge ‘prabhat-ferry’ (procession in the morning) here and participated in ‘Shramdan’ (work for the society)[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) Police in the US are in search of two men who played pornographic content on an electronic billboard for about 20 minutes, the media reported. The two men who had their faces covered forced their way into the control room of the billboard in the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Pakistan skipper Safaraz Ahmed achieved another feat on Wednesday when he led his team out on the field against Sri Lanka in the teams third one-day international at the National Stadium in Karachi as he became only the second wicket-keeper in the history of the[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Oct 2 (IANS) Boosting up efforts of the Punjab government to protect the environment, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday asked the farmers not to burn paddy crop residue in the fields. Acting on the request of the state Agriculture Department, the SGPC said the preservation of[Read More…]
