Port of Spain, Aug 13 (IANS) After a convincing show in the second ODI, Virat Kohli and boys will look to seal the deal in the final ODI of the three-match series at the Queen’s Park Oval on Wednesday. With the opening game washed out, the Indians have taken a[Read More…]
Srinagar, Aug 13 (IANS) Independence Day celebrations will be carried out in a grand manner in all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, for which dress rehearsals are underway, Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary (Planning) Rohit Kansal said on Tuesday. The Independence Day celebrations on such a large[Read More…]
BY SANDEEP BAMZAI From boom to bust to jail to acquittal New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) From London-based billionaire to the world’s biggest bankrupt to derisively being described as Delhi’s bootlegger, Rajendra Singh Sethia has seen a gamut of emotions, a roller-coaster life with a strong underpinning of karmic payback.[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) Manish Mundra, the founder-producer of Mumbai-based Drishyam Films that has produced award-winning films such as “Newton” and “Masaan”, will now direct an untitled social drama feature film inspired by true events. “For many years now I have nurtured a dream to direct my own film. I[Read More…]
Sydney, Aug 13 (IANS) A man was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed a woman in the Australian city of Sydney, police said. New South Wales Police Superintendent Gavin Wood told the media that the incident began at around 2 p.m. when the suspect produced a knife and as[Read More…]
Dubai, Aug 13 (IANS) Indian expats from Kerala in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have opened collection centres for donations to support the thousands of displaced families in their flood-hit state, the media reported on Tuesday. After one of the worst flooding in its history last year, many parts of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that data collected for publishing in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam shall be kept as secure as the Aadhaar data. The court said that there will be no re-verification of the data under NRC and at[Read More…]
Wellington, Aug 13 (IANS) A new three-year agreement has been reached in principle between New Zealand Cricket (NZC) and New Zealand Cricketers Player Association (NZCPA) with an aim to increase the benefits given to women cricketers of the country. The key features of the new Women’s Master Agreement include a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Noida and Greater Noida authorities on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that they have created a special cell to ease out problems of the Amrapali homebuyers. The authorities told a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra that they have created the cell to deal[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 13 (IANS) India’s Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that American President Donald Trump’s mediation offer on Kashmir was “not on the table anymore” and “unlikely to happen”, a media report said on Tuesday. When asked about the prospect during a Fox News interview on[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 13 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asked Pakistanis not to “live in fool’s paradise”, expecting the UN to “wait with garlands” to welcome Islamabad’s stance on India’s move to revoke Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir. “They (UN) are not waiting[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The slump in domestic passenger cars’ sales continued with the segment’s off-take plunging by 35.95 per cent in July. Industry observers cited high cost due to GST and lack of adequate liquidity as the main reasons for the sales slowdown. According to the Society of[Read More…]
Panaji, Aug 13 (IANS) If the BJP believes in the ‘one law, one country’ principle, how can it propose a law banning Goans from entering casinos while allowing domestic tourists to do so, the Congress said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference at the state Congress headquarters here, party spokesperson[Read More…]
Nagpur, Aug 13 (IANS) Nagpur-Delhi IndiGo flight with Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari aboard, aborted take-off after the pilots noticed a technical fault, official sources said here on Tuesday. The flight, 6E-636, returned from the taxiway after the pilot made an announcement asking all passengers to deboard. The passengers were[Read More…]
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Louise Martin has insisted that shooting will not be a part of the 2022 edition to be held in Birmingham despite threat from India to boycott the Games. Speaking to Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Martin said that shooting has never been a[Read More…]
Beijing, Aug 13 (IANS) China, whose forces regularly intrude into Ladakh, stuck to its opposition to the creation of Ladakh Union Territory, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi telling his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar that the move “involves Chinese territory”. Wang told Jaishankar that the Indian government’s announcement of the[Read More…]
By Maj. Gen. S.B. Asthana The peaceful celebration of Eid although at reduced scale, demolishes the propaganda fueled by countries/media houses/politicians, who stand disappointed as they were waiting for violence to break out in Kashmir, post abrogation of Article 370. The historic moment revoking Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir[Read More…]
By Lt. Gen. Prakash Chand Katoch (retd) New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) In a historic decision on August 5, India repealed Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories: Ladakh – without a legislature, to be ruled by the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Canon India on Tuesday expanded its flagship compact G series with the PowerShot G5 X Mark II and the PowerShot G7 X Mark III for Rs 64,995 and Rs 52,995, respectively. “Our iconic PowerShot G series offers powerful imagery and advanced technology in a premium,[Read More…]
By Simran Sethi New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) He made a successful Bollywood debut with “Student Of The Year” in 2012 and managed to garner a fan base with his good looks in the initial years of career. The past couple of years, however, have been rough for Sidharth Malhotra.[Read More…]
Beijing, Aug 13 (IANS) Terming India’s moves on Kashmir as “geo-political trickery and unilateralism” riding on the back of “too much confidence” stemming from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s electoral victory, an editorial in China’s state-run Global Times has warned that “a nationalist India has no future”. The editorial, titled ‘Unilateral[Read More…]
By Vishal Gulati Jammu, Aug 13 (IANS) At least 10 lakh people who are at present settled in 39 camps across the Jammu region in Jammu and Kashmir, a majority of whose ancestors migrated to India from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) during partition, are still “misplaced” even after 72 years[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Rajesh Sud as the Managing Director – Financial Services. He will report to Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises. Sud takes over from Soumen Ghosh (Sam) who successfully led[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that data collected for publishing in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam shall be kept as secure as the Aadhaar data. The court said that there will be no re-verification of the data under NRC and at[Read More…]
Srinagar, Aug 13 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir has shot a letter to Twitter asking for details of one of its accounts that has been spreading “rumours through his tweets very frequently which are leading to law and order situation in the Kashmir Valley”. The Superintendent of Police, Police[Read More…]
