New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary was on Tuesday named as leader of Congress in Lok Sabha by UPA chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi, party sources said. According to top Congress sources, the letter nominating Chaudhary, an MP from West Bengal’s Behrampur,[Read More…]
Seoul, June 18 (IANS) Samsung Display Co. maintained its dominant position in the global smartphone display market in the first quarter as more handset makers adopted OLED panels for their premium products, a market researcher has said. The display making unit of Samsung Electronics shipped $3.4 billion worth of smartphone[Read More…]
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) Indicating that she would skip the meeting of presidents of all political parties convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to the Centre saying it should not go about “hurriedly” on a “sensitive[Read More…]
Helsinki, June 18 (IANS) HMD Global, which makes and markets Nokia-branded phones, on Tuesday announced partnership with consultancy firm CGI and Google Cloud to move and store phone activation and performance data at the Google Cloud Region in Hamina, Finland for better protection. The move would deliver an even better[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Snapping a four-day losing streak, the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed marginally higher on Tuesday after a choppy day of trade. The Sensex closed 85.55 points, or 0.22 per cent, higher at 39,046.34 while the Nifty closed 19.35 points, or 0.17 per cent, in the[Read More…]
Seoul, June 18 (IANS) LG CNS Co. — LG’s IT service subsidiary — has said that it has agreed with US tech behemoth Microsoft Corp. to collaborate on the development of Cloud-based enterprise solutions. LG CNS and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the strategic partnership at the[Read More…]
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Bollywoods ‘King Khan Shah Rukh Khan will be bringing the life of King Mufasa alive with his voice in the Hindi version of Jon Favreaus re-imagination of Disneys classic “The Lion King”. It shows how Hollywood franchises are adding a Bollywood twist[Read More…]
London, June 18 (IANS) Rumours of Chelsea’s desire to replace Maurizio Sarri with club legend Frank Lampard as head coach has been gaining steam since the end of the previous season. Lampard, who is Chelsea’s all-time highest goal-scorer, nearly led Derby County to promotion to the Premier League in his[Read More…]
Manchester, June 18 (IANS) For his own good, Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku “has to leave” the Premier League giants, feels Belgium manager Roberto Martinez. “It is now important that Romelu finds the right club,” Martinez told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws as quoted by BBC. “It would be a[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Two bodies were retrieved from the Arabian Sea in two separate incidents off the Juhu and Versova beaches in the city’s western suburbs on Tuesday, an official said. In the first instance, lifeguards deployed at Juhu Beach noticed a body floating in the waters near the[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to quiz Mohammad Arif Ghulambashir Dharampuria for seven days in connection with the Pakistan-based Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) terror funding case. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain extended Dharampuria’s custody for another seven days. He[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) A 60-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by her son-in-law with an iron rod in Rohini area of Delhi following a heated argument, police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the accused has been identified as Rajesh (44) who had beaten his mother-in-law[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was on Tuesday named as leader of Congress in Lok Sabha by UPA Chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi. According to top Congress sources, the letter nominating Chowdhury, an MP from West Bengal’s Behrampur and a former[Read More…]
Prayagraj, June 18 (IANS) Fourteen years after a terror attack on Ayodhya by Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives, a special court here on Tuesday convicted four of the accused in the conspiracy behind the attack and sentenced them to life imprisonment. One accused, Mohammad Aziz, has been acquitted due to lack of substantial[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) India maintained their dominance over arch-rivals Pakistan in World Cup history when the Virat Kohli-led team thrashed Pakistan by 89 runs at Old Trafford, Manchester on Sunday. It was for the seventh consecutive time in the history of the showpiece event when the Green Brigade[Read More…]
Aizawl, June 18 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry has asked the Mizoram government to immediately deport 220 Myanmarese nationals back to Myanmar, officials said on Tuesday. Around 220 Myanmarese refugees belonging to 54 families are staying in four villages of Mizoram’s southernmost Lawngtlai district since November 2017 after they fled[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Chants of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Vande Mataram” greeted All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday as he took oath as member of the 17th Lok Sabha, and he responded with “Allahu Akbar”. As the Hyderabad MP approached the Speaker’s podium, some[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding an all-party meeting on Wednesday to discuss “one nation, one election” among other key issues. Modi has invited the heads of all political parties having representatives in Parliament on Wednesday to freely interact and exchange views with the[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has advised private satellite television channels to represent children appropriately in dance-based reality shows. In an advisory issued on Tuesday, the Ministry noted that several dance based reality TV shows portray young children performing dance moves originally done by[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) The CBI on Tuesday said it had registered a case against Mumbai-based NGO ‘Lawyers Collective’ and its President Anand Grover for alleged violation of the FCRA rules. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), it registered the case of violation of Foreign Contribution (Regulations)[Read More…]
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Chandigarh, June 18 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention for permission to construct covered godowns for scientific storage of foodgrains to address the acute shortage of covered storage space in the state. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Amarinder Singh has urged[Read More…]
New Delhi/Jaipur, June 18 (IANS) Om Birla, BJPs two-time MP from Rajasthan, is the NDAs nominee for the post of Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha and is set to be elected on Wednesday, with at least 10 parties, including outside the BJP-led coalition, committing their support to his candidature.[Read More…]
By Durga Chakravarty New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Actor Abhay Deol, who has made his digital debut with “Chopsticks”, feels censorship on the over-the-top (OTT) platforms would be a “futile exercise”. He finds it baffling how sexuality is considered more offensive than violence as far as the OTT content is[Read More…]
The Hague, June 18 (IANS) Ibrahim Afellay signed a one-year contract at Philips Sport Vereniging (PSV) on Tuesday, marking his return to the Dutch football club after eight years abroad. The 33-year-old midfielder had left PSV, with whom he won four Dutch league titles and one domestic Cup, in January[Read More…]
