By Shahroz Afridi & Prabhatesh Tripathi Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 27 (IANS/ 101Reporters) On a sweltering summer evening, Inder Chalthiya and the other members of his tribe were out in the wild, preparing for a ritual of sacrificing an animal to the village gods. Inder was responsible for handling the[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 27 (IANS) Dinesh Chawla, an Indian-origin developer who previously partnered with the Trump Organization to bring a series of new hotels to the state of Mississippi, has been arrested for allegedly stealing luggage from a Memphis airport, media reports said. According to Shelby County Jail records in Memphis,[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa discussed the Kashmir issue with Vice Chairman of Chinas Central Military Commission (CMC) General Xu Qiliang, the media reported on Tuesday. “A Chinese delegation led by the CMC Vice Chairman visited the GHQ (on Monday),” The[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Top ratings firm Moody’s on Tuesday said the measures announced by the government to boost the sagging economy would support investors and business sentiments, but domestic and external headwinds would persist over the fiscal. Responding to the economic measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,[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…]
Panaji, Aug 27 (IANS) Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s proposal to get himself appointed as the Pro-Chancellor of the Goa University (GU) has met with stiff resistance with the Opposition accusing Sawant of trying to politicise the functioning of the state’s only university. “This is an open attempt to politically interfere[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…]
San Francisco, Aug 27 (IANS) To challenge Windows-powered laptops, Google has teamed up with Microsoft’s biggest partner, Dell, to launch new Chromebook Enterprise devices. Google and Dell have been working together for more than a year to ensure these new Chromebook Enterprise devices are ready for IT needs, The Verge[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Aug 27 (IANS) Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says she was embarrassingly obsessed with fame and money when she was younger but her focus has “shifted” now. “Money was always the goal but I was obsessed with fame, like, embarrassingly obsessed. I do agree that fame can be[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman spoke on the phone for a third time over the Kashmir issue, a media report said on Tuesday. During the call on Monday night, Khan apprised the Crown Prince on the present situation[Read More…]
London, Aug 27 (IANS) Actress Amy Jackson shared that she is expecting a son at her gender reveal party. The actress took to Twitter on Monday to share a video from the gender reveal party. In the clip, an ecstatic Amy shouts: “It’s a boy.” The 27-year-old had earlier shared[Read More…]
Melbourne, Aug 27 (IANS) Former Australian fast bowler Paul Wilson will make his Test umpiring debut during the one-off match between Bangladesh and Afghanistan beginning September 5 in Chittagong. Wilson, who earned a Baggy Green playing one Test for Australia in Kolkata in 1998, has already umpired 28 ODIs and[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta says he is excited, anxious and nervous to begin shooting for his film “Mumbai Saga”. Sanjay on Tuesday took to Twitter where he called the film an ambitious and adventurous journey. “It’s 5.30 in the morning and I’m having my cup of tea.[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s youngest son AbRam is keeping up with the family tradition of Taekwondo and is now a yellow belt in the sport. Shah Rukh, whose other two children — Suhana and Aryan — are also trained in the sport, took to Twitter to[Read More…]
Srinagar, Aug 27 (IANS) Security agencies arrested a militant in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir during a checking operation even as heavy shelling took place at two locations along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch, officials said on Tuesday. The militant was nabbed on Monday from a joint[Read More…]
San Francisco, Aug 27 (IANS) Adding video to a tweet can pull 10 times more engagements than tweets without video, the micro-blogging platform has revealed. Tweets with images attract 150 per cent more re-tweets than tweets without images and even tweets with a GIF gain 55 per cent more engagement[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry will set up a Kashmir media cell, a government official said. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Firdous Ashiq Awan, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information, said the Ministry had taken technical support from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI)[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) After registering a record-breaking win in the first Test against West Indies, Team India members took some time off and went on a cruise on the high sea around the Caribbean Islands. Opening batsman K.L. Rahul on Tuesday shared a picture on social media in[Read More…]
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New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday condoled the death of the country’s first Director General of Police (DGP) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, who post-retirement jumped into politics by contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Haridwar as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate. “Saddened to know[Read More…]
Aligarh, Aug 27 (IANS) A private aircraft crashed on Tuesday at the Ghanipur air strip here in Uttar Pradesh. The pilot and six others evacuated in the nick of time, escaping with minor injuries. A relief and rescue team has reached the spot. Sources said that the aircraft was flying[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 27 (IANS) A US court has ruled that American pharma major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay over $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis in Oklahoma that, according to the state, has resulted in more than 6,000 deaths over the past two decades. The order[Read More…]
Rae Bareli, Aug 27 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday reached Rae Bareli to meet the family of former Congress legislator Akhilesh Singh, who passed away on August 20. Priyanka spent about half an hour with the family of the late leader and conveyed to them condolences[Read More…]
Canberra, Aug 27 (IANS) An Australian writer of Chinese origin has been arrested on suspicion of espionage in China, where he has been detained since the beginning of the year, the Canberra government confirmed on Tuesday. Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese Foreign Ministry official, was detained in Guangzhou in January[Read More…]
Brasilia, Aug 27 (IANS) Brazil has reiterated its sovereignty over the Amazon, in response to a comment made by French President Emmanuel Macron who implied that the international community take action to help the world’s largest tropical rainforest from being devastated by massive wildfires. “No one needs a ‘new initiative[Read More…]
