New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) It has been four months since a Mirage 2000 fighter crashed in Bengaluru but the family of one of the two pilots killed in the incident still awaits closure as the Indian Air Force (IAF) is yet to share findings of the court of inquiry[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Days after a dozen senior Income Tax officials were shown the door for alleged misconduct, the axe has now fallen on 15 senior revenue officials dealing with indirect taxes on charges ranging from demanding bribe and criminal conspiracy to financial impropriety, sources said. The axe[Read More…]
Srinagar, June 18 (IANS) Two persons were injured on Tuesday during a rafting competition in Lidder river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam hill station. Tourism Department sources said that two participants were injured during the rafting championship. “The injured have been shifted to Srinagar for treatment,” officials said. The rafting[Read More…]
Amaravati, June 18 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Centre to accord Special Category Status (SCS) to the state without any further delay. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy moved the resolution which was adopted by voice vote on the last day of[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) In an interim relief, the Delhi High Court has directed a private clinic to continue with the stem cell treatment being provided to the patients till its further orders. The court’s interim direction came while hearing various petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to put stem[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Actress Barkha Bisht Sengupta, who has been roped in to play Tarini in the ongoing TV show “Chandragupta Maurya”, says she is excited to experience the historical genre for the first time. Siddharth Kumar Tewary’s historical series, which airs on Sony Entertainment Television, took a five-year[Read More…]
Prayagraj, June 18 (IANS) Two children were killed and one seriously injured in an explosion in a toilet here on Tuesday, police said. The incident was reported from Dubaval village in the district. According to reports, the children were playing near the toilet, constructed under the government scheme by Shivpujan[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Once Rishi Kapoor is back home after months of being in New York for treatment, he is likely to bounce back to action soon with a film co-starring Juhi Chawla. And he is not the only actor who has fought a serious illness like a warrior[Read More…]
Lucknow, June 18 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday welcomed the life imprisonment awarded to four accused in the 2005 Ayodhya terror attack case. In a statement, Adityanath said that the state government would study the judgment and appeal against the acquittal of the fifth accused in[Read More…]
Bengaluru, June 18 (IANS) Leading software services provider Quess Corporation on Tuesday said it had hired Krish Seshadri as Chief Executive of Monster, which it acquired in January 2018. “Seshadri will lead the operations of our subsidiary Monster in APAC and Gulf regions,” said the city-based IT firm in a[Read More…]
Srinagar, June 18 (IANS) At least 10 people were injured in a grenade blast in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama town on Tuesday, police said. Police sources said militants hurled a grenade at Pulwama police station, but it exploded outside the compound wall, injuring 10 people, three of them critically. “Three[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who has directed two 10-second short films for Facebook India, says shooting a film by a mobile camera and in a vertical frame makes storytelling exciting and inexpensive, especially for youngsters. Eight years after her maiden Bollywood directorial “Dhobi Ghat”, Kiran has returned[Read More…]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) As more than a hundred people died in ‘poisonous hooch’ tragedies in Uttar Pradesh during the past one year, a few sugar mills and distilleries have come under the scanner of the Special Task Force of the UP police. Working round the[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Actor Sanjay Dutt, who is venturing into Marathi cinema as a producer with “Baba”, has dedicated the film to his late father and veteran actor Sunil Dutt. Sanjay on Tuesday took to social media to share a poster of his first Marathi production. “Dedicating our first[Read More…]
Prayagraj, June 18 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday convicted four people in the 2005 Ayodhya terror attack on charges of criminal conspiracy and attempted murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment. One accused was, however, acquitted. Here is the sequence of events: * A group of terrorists tried to[Read More…]
Madrid, June 18 (IANS) Two exoplanets that have been discovered, which are warm similar to Earth and may have water, could be good candidates to support life, according to a study on Tuesday. Scientists have been searching for planets close to nearby stars since 2016 using a 3.5-meter telescope. Images[Read More…]
Hong Kong, June 18 (IANS) A civil rights organisation, coordinating demonstrations against a contentious extradition bill, on Tuesday rejected a public apology by Hong Kong’s leader and announced that the protests would continue. Addressing a press conference, Civil Human Rights Front Vice-Convenor Bonnie Leung said the group was disappointed with[Read More…]
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New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Invest India on Tuesday picked 5 Indian startups who would receive nearly Rs 35 lakh ($50,000) each to further develop country-first products to solve real-life problems being faced by millions in the country. The start-ups are: digital healthcare platform MedCords; virtual reality[Read More…]
Manchester, June 18 (IANS) Afghanistan bowlers were smashed to all corners of Old Trafford as England captain Eoin Morgan’s whirlwind innings of 148 helped his side post a mammoth 397/6 in their World Cup clash on Tuesday. Morgan’s knock came off just 71 deliveries as he hit four fours and[Read More…]
Manchester, June 18 (IANS) England captain Eoin Morgan on Tuesday created a new world record for maximum sixes in an ODI innings as he hit 17 sixes en route to his breathtaking 148 off just 71 balls against Afghanistan in their World Cup tie at Old Trafford. The previous record[Read More…]
Toronto, June 18 (IANS) For health professionals, posting a single negative comment on their Facebook profiles may hinder their credibility with current or potential clients, according to a study. The findings, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, show that Facebook posts that may affect people’s perceptions of professionalism.[Read More…]
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, June 18 (IANS) The CPI-M national leadership has washed its hands off Binoy Kodiyeri, son of its Kerala secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, against whom a rape case was filed last week. While CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury told the media in Delhi that he was not aware of the[Read More…]
Beijing, June 18 (IANS) As many as 13 people were killed and 199 others injured in a 6-magnitude earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan Province, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Tuesday. The earthquake hit the Changning county at 10.55 p.m. on Monday. As of 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 20[Read More…]
Kathmandu, June 18 (IANS) At least 12 people are missing after a passenger jeep skidded off a mountain road and plunged into a river in Nepal’s Humla district on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The jeep veered off the road and plunged into the river in Kharpunath rural municipality at around[Read More…]
