Kabul/Doha, Aug 27 (IANS) The US and Taliban negotiators have made progress on establishing safe zones once the American forces started leaving Afghanistan, sources familiar with the ninth round of the peace talks in Doha said. The sources said on Monday that based on the safe zone strategy, there will[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) National Award-winning actor Ayushmann Khurrana says it’s great to know that the audience expects him to do good cinema and considers it a “good pressure” to have. With back-to-back hits — “Andhadhun”, “Badhaai Ho” and “Article 15” — in recent times, the audience’s expectation from the[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) Movie star John Travolta has been ruthlessly trolled on social media after appearing to confuse singer Taylor Swift with a drag queen at the MTV VMAs. While presenting the award for Video of the Year, the “Pulp Fiction” star tried to hand the Moon Man[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) Actress Eva Longoria will direct “Flamin Hot”, a biopic about the man who created the spicy Flamin Hot Cheetos. It was first reported in February 2018 that Searchlight and DeVon Franklin were set to produce the film “Flamin’ Hot”, which will tell the true story[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) IMAX Corporation and INOX Leisure Limited on Tuesday announced an agreement to open two new IMAX theatres to India, expanding their partnership to 12 open or planned theatres nationwide. IMAX and INOX first entered their partnership in 2016. One of the new theatres will open as[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) On the second day of hearing this week on former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s petition for pre-arrest bail in the ED’s INX Media case, his lawyers argued on the retrospective effect of the PMLA law. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Chidambaram, told the court[Read More…]
By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Ethics Officer D.K. Jain asking National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid to depose before him on September 26 over the Conflict of Interest allegations levelled against him, the Committee of Administrators[Read More…]
Tehran, Aug 27 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said the US must lift all its economic sanctions on the Tehran if it wants to restart talks to thaw relations. Rouhani gave a televised speech a day after his American counterpart Donald Trump told reporters at a G7 meeting[Read More…]
Raipur, Aug 27 (IANS) Four horses have tested positive for glanders – a highly contagious and often fatal zoonotic disease – in Chhattisgarh’s Durg and Rajnandgaon, and the state administration has imposed restrictions on the movement of equines in and out of the two areas. One horse tested positive for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday waived off water arrears of about 13 lakh people with functional water meters. “Some of these arrears are due to consumers but some are also due to incorrect billing,” Kejriwal told the media. While the waiver will be[Read More…]
Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) Six people were detained on Tuesday in connection with a shocking case in which a minor girl was gangraped and later tonsured and paraded through her village as punishment by the panchayat in Gaya district of Bihar, police said. According to the police, the girl was[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 27 (IANS) Kerala’s Department of Social Justice initiative, The Gender Park, designed to pioneer gender equity and empowerment in the state, has announced a slew of new projects following the success of its She-Taxi project, an official said on Tuesday. Among the new projects that have been planned[Read More…]
Brasilia, Aug 27 (IANS) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rejected a $22 million aid package offered by G7 countries to help battle fierce forest fires in the Amazon rainforest, which is often regarded as the planet’s “lungs”. The G7 aid offer was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) A new research paper published in the US-based Brookings Institution has recommended greater incentives for private investment in order to build self-reliance in the Indian defence industrial sector. The paper titled ‘The Indigenisation of India’s Defence Industry’ has argued for consistency in budgetary allocations and[Read More…]
By Suyash Choudhary The RBI board accepted the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan committee and has decided to transfer Rs 1,76,051 crore to the government. This is broken as Rs 1,23,414 crore as surplus for year 2018-19 and another Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified by the committee as[Read More…]
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 27 (IANS) A woman and three children were among 16 killed in an accident involving three vehicles here on a national highway on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Jamka crossing of NH-24, when a speeding truck hit a tempo and another van and then overturned seriously[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Income Tax department has attached a benami property in the form of a hotel worth Rs 150 crore in Gurugram allegedly belonging to Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnio and his brother, IT sources said on Tuesday. According to the sources, the department has attached[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Digital payments company Paytm has appointed ex-Goldman executive Amit Nayyar as President, financial services business. Reporting to Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and CEO of Paytm, Nayyar will lead the company’s efforts to further its footprint in lending, insurance, wealth management and broking businesses, the company[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) After recently completing six years in the re-commerce business, Cashify on Tuesday launched an online portal to sell refurbished smartphones, laptops and mobile accessories in India. “As a re-commerce brand, we are hopeful of making a big impact in the refurbished gadget market, starting off[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) An inter-ministerial meeting is on in the Home Ministry on Tuesday to discuss the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 which bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union Territories, said officials. The meeting, chaired by newly appointed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, began in[Read More…]
By Aakash Kumar New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Indian cricket has seen a meteoric rise in the last two years — especially in Test cricket — wherein Virat Kohli and boys have not only dominated on home soil, but have also done well overseas. While the team was unable to[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Vidya Balan is one of the most sought-after actresses in Bollywood, but she had faced a lot of rejections in the south film industry. She says there was a time when a Tamil producer made her feel ugly. “There were a lot of rejections down South.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Team India head coach Ravi Shastri has once again found himself at the receiving end of trolls on social media. After the emphatic 318-run win over West Indies in the first Test in Antigua, Virat Kohli and Co took some time off to enjoy themselves[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez says she got disturbed after watching herself play a stripper in her movie “Hustlers”. “When I watched the movie for the first time, I was like, a little bit sick to my stomach. I was like, ‘Oh my God! What are they[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis will feature as the former first lady Michelle Obama in a new television series, titled “First Ladies”. Davis will also executive produce the Showtime drama that will provide insight into the personal and political lives of first ladies throughout history, reports[Read More…]
