New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will cross-examine Trinamool Congress MP K.D. Singh, Narada News Managing Director Mathew Samuel and a third person in connection with the Narada sting operation, sources said on Tuesday. A CBI source related to the investigation told IANS: “The agency[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) “Saw” fame actor Tobin Bell will feature in the new comedy project “Mouth to Mouth”. The project will be produced by Dean C. Jones, Starr Jones, and David Shoenfeld, reports variety.com. “Mouth to Mouth” will revolve around scrawny nerd from the Midwest who accidentally lands[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Farhan Akhtar has wished his girlfriend Shibani Dandekar on her 39th birthday on Tuesday. The actor tagged her as his “sunshine”. Farhan shared a photograph of Shibani on Instagram and captioned it: “Happy birthday sunshine. May you always have reason to smile. Love you loads. Shibani[Read More…]
London, Aug 27 (IANS) British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that a no-deal Brexit would leave the UK at the mercy of US President Donald Trump. Writing in the Independent newspaper, Corbyn accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of “cosying up to Trump” because “no-deal Brexit is really[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) In a race to be the top state in India, IEEFA has modelled the economic powerhouse Gujarat adding a staggering 46 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity by 2029-30, a new report said on Tuesday. The report, “Gujarat’s electricity sector transformation – A role-model[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday met newly crowned world champion P.V. Sindhu and said the star shuttler has made India proud by becoming the first Indian to win gold at BWF World Championships. Sindhu on Sunday demolished Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in the[Read More…]
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, Aug 27 (IANS) Abdul Gani Mir of Saidpora area in Srinagar district narrowly missed saving over Rs 10 lakh which he had to spend on the traditional Kashmiri feast called ‘Wazwan’ served to guests during the marriage of his son Tariq Ahmad. Tariq was married in[Read More…]
Beijing, Aug 27 (IANS) Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has confirmed that its upcoming smartphone NEX 3 5G would be launched in China in September. Considering the phone is expected to be a flagship, it would likely arrive with the Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC with the Snapdragon X50 5G modem, GSMArena[Read More…]
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe involving Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, arrested in a money laundering case, has revealed that the amount of the bank fraud is approximately Rs 1,492 crore, much higher than Rs 354 crore[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) The Mumbai Traffic Police collected record fines totalling nearly Rs 139 crore in 2018 for violations of traffic rules, according to an RTI filing here on Tuesday. This figure is much higher compared to the Rs 8.6 crore collected in 2017, said RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge,[Read More…]
Panaji, Aug 27 (IANS) Amid reports of crores of rupees spent on the health bills of late Goa Chief Minister late Manohar Parrikar, Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat on Tuesday said that all MLAs should be provided with health insurance cover. When asked at a press conference about covering lawmakers[Read More…]
BY VISHAL GULATI Shimla, Aug 27 (IANS) Nearly a year after the British-era past was reconstructed from the debris of the old with the Asian Development Bank funding of Rs 8 crore, the issue of Town Hall’s possession has been caught in a legal battle. It now cries for attention[Read More…]
Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) In his first public engagement after returning from the G7 Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning visited former Finance minister Arun Jaitley’s family at his Kailash Colony residence here. Jaitley passed away on Saturday, when the PM was in the UAE. From[Read More…]
Kottayam (Kerala), Aug 27 (IANS) A court in Kottayam which had found 10 persons guilty for the honour killing of 24-year-old Kevin Joseph, on Tuesday sentenced the convicts to double life imprisonment. On May 28 last year, the Kerala Police had found the body of Kevin Joseph, who had married[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Microsoft India on Tuesday announced the “Digital Governance Tech Tour” programme to skill government IT officials in new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent cloud computing, Microsoft will organise a series of physical and virtual workshops to train 5,000 government IT personnel over a[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 27 (IANS) India legend Mahesh Bhupati has hailed 22-year-old Sumit Nagal’s showing against five-time champion and current world no.3 Roger Federer in the first round of the US Open. While Nagal lost the match, Bhupati feels the youngster showed “incredible” composure to bag the first set. On Monday,[Read More…]
Chennai, Aug 27 (IANS) Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli on Tuesday began filming the second schedule of his upcoming magnum opus “RRR” in Bulgaria, its makers said in a statement. In the Bulgaria schedule, which will last for close to a month, major scenes involving Jr. NTR will be filmed. Rajamouli had[Read More…]
Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Days after IANS reported that the BJP’s election in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khanna wrote to Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel to fast track tourism in the valley, the effect has started to show. A team of the tourism ministry is being sent to[Read More…]
Sydney, Aug 27 (IANS) Researchers have discovered how fatty liver disease develops in lean people, aiding the development of potential treatments for these patients. “Lean fatty liver patients have a very distinct metabolism compared to non-lean ones, which can explain some of the differences we see in disease progression,” said[Read More…]
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, Aug 27 (IANS) India legend Mahesh Bhupati has hailed 22-year-old Sumit Nagal’s showing against five-time champion and current world no.3 Roger Federer in the first round of the US Open. While Nagal lost the match, Bhupati feels the youngster showed “incredible” composure to bag the first[Read More…]
Lahore, Aug 27 (IANS) Secret “torture cells” being run by the police at several places in Pakistan has forced the provincial police chiefs to issue policy guidelines with strict directions not to torture suspects, a media report said. Despite the instructions, secret torture cells continue to operate at several places[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Aug 27 (IANS) A Punjab and Haryana High Court judge has recused himself from hearing a bail plea filed by Honeypreet, the adopted daughter of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. She is in jail in connection with violence that broke out in Panchkula in Haryana[Read More…]
Moscow, Aug 27 (IANS) A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday following a failed attempt. “The docking has taken place,” said the Mission Control Centre. The docking of Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft with the Russian Fedor, short for Final Experimental[Read More…]
London, Aug 27 (IANS) Bollywood’s livewire star Ranveer Singh has praised Boman Irani, whom he called one of the finest actors and a colossal talent. Ranveer on Tuesday shared on Instagram a string of photographs of himself along with Boman and director Kabir Khan from the Lord’s Cricket Ground here.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry will hold a high-level meeting on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on Tuesday, said a Ministry source. The meeting will be chaired by newly appointed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and attended by the secretaries of the Central government. This will[Read More…]
