Jaipur, May 27 (IANS) Amid speculation of a leadership change in Rajasthan, Congress leader Lal Chand Kataria has reportedly resigned as Agriculture Minister, citing the rout of the party in the Lok Sabha elections. In a purported press release, Kataria said he had sent the resignation to the Governor through[Read More…]
Hyderabad, May 27 (IANS) Disheartened by the defeat of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha in the Lok Sabha elections, one of her supporters died of shock, TRS leaders said on Monday. Kishore, a Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) worker, died of cardiac arrest on Saturday in his[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Expense, travel and invoice management solutions provider SAP Concur on Monday announced the appointment of Mankiran Chowhan as its Managing Director for India. Before joining SAP Concur, Chowhan served as Managing Vice President and Country Manager of Sales for Gartner India where she led the[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Congress said on Monday that the CWC meeting on Saturday held a collective deliberation on the partys performance in the Lok Sabha polls instead of casting aspersions on the role or conduct of any specific individual and any “conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions” in the[Read More…]
Faridabad (Haryana), May 27 (IANS) In a shocking revelation in the sexual abuse scandal unearthed in a government college in Faridabad last week, an arrested lab assistant has admitted that several girls were targetted by senior college staff, including an Associate Professor. The scandal came to light after a student[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 27 (IANS) Bollywood’s veteran action director Veeru Devgan, father of actor Ajay Devgn, died here on Monday, family sources said. He was 85. Veeru Devgan breathed his last on Monday afternoon at a hospital here due to age-related issues, according to a source. Apart from directing action sequences,[Read More…]
Kathmandu, May 27 (IANS) Nepal’s tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to “overcrowding” and said factors including adverse weather conditions also resulted in the deaths. Tourism Department’s Director General Dandu Raj Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The first session of Parliament after the Lok Sabha elections is likely to be held from June 6 to 15, informed sources said here. The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha will begin with the newly-elected members taking oath. –IANS bns-ps/mr
Mumbai, May 27 (IANS) Manpasand Beverages scrips hit lower circuit on the Bombay stock exchange over MD and CFO’s arrest facing allegations of Goods and Services Tax (GST) fraud. The Manpasand scrips hit the lower circuit limit of 20 per cent on Monday. The trading stopped when it was priced[Read More…]
Varanasi, May 27 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah on Monday pledged to develop Kashi further in the next five years following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha election from here. Addressing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists here, Shah said that Modi had placed his trust in[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s ‘Chacha Cricket’ aka Abdul Jalil along with Bangladesh’s fan ‘Tiger’ aka Shoyab Ali and Sri Lanka’s Gayan Senanayaka are three other global recipients of the first ever Global Sports Fan Awards 2019 at one of a kind award ceremony to be held in Manchester[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 27 (IANS) Star couple Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt have come together for the first time in a TV commercial. In Flipkart’s latest campaign “India Ka Fashion Capital”, Alia reveals Ranbir’s everyday fashion to a group of wannabe adults, and accepts that nowadays she knows quite a bit[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) India witnessed a dip in mobile speeds in April 2019 with its rank remaining at 68th position in fixed broadband speeds globally and has decreased in ranking to 121 in mobile speeds, Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, said on Monday in updates to its Speedtest[Read More…]
Bhopal, May 27 (IANS) Katni district Collector in Madhya Pradesh, Pankaj Jain, an IAS officer, sends his daughter to an ‘anganwadi’ – a rural child care centre – for her pre-school learning, saying it was better than many private play schools in the area. Jain said: “When responsible officers send[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 27 (IANS) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap says he has filed an FIR against a social media user who threatened to rape his daughter. Kashyap took to Twitter to thank the Mumbai Police which helped him with filing the FIR. “Thank you so much for the amazing support and starting[Read More…]
New York, May 27 (IANS) People who sleep less than seven hours each night are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease, warn researchers. The findings, published in the journal Experimental Physiology, show that people who sleep fewer than seven hours per night have lower[Read More…]
Kathmandu, May 27 (IANS) A bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army has disposed three explosive devices in the country, a day after four people died in three blasts in the capital, officials said on Monday. The first bomb was planted on a footpath in front of an office in[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Internet names and registrations management major GoDaddy on Monday said it launched a new Internet solution for small business owners and entrepreneurs in India that can allow them to go online with an investment of less than Rs 3 per day. The new solution, Online[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The recent slowdown in the economy stem not only from slow investment growth and subdued exports but also from weakening growth in consumption demand, industry body Ficci has told the Finance Ministry In a pre-Budget 2019-20 memorandum to the ministry, Ficci has warned of long-term[Read More…]
Melbourne, May 27 (IANS) Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell will not seek a reduced sentence if the court of appeal upholds his conviction for sexually abusing two Melbourne choir-boys in the 1990s. Pell has been behind bars since February and is due to return to court next month to fight[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Fake news of former Sri Lanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya’s death left Indian off-spinner R. Ashwin stunned and worried on Monday. “Is the news on Sanath Jayasuriya true?? I got a news update on WhatsApp but see nothing here on Twitter!!” Ashwin tweeted as the news[Read More…]
Wellington, May 27 (IANS) The New Zealand government will deliver its first ever “Wellbeing Budget” this week, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday. Instead of meeting GDP goals, this year’s government budget is understood to be focused on social issues such as mental health, homelessness and child poverty, reports[Read More…]
Brasilia, May 27 (IANS) At least 15 people have been killed in fighting between inmates at a prison in northern Brazil, officials said. The clashes reportedly broke out on Sunday during visiting hours at Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in Manaus, the BBC reported. Some of the victims were stabbed with[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Conception and child birth may be an almost year-long procedure in normal cases, but not for the women employees linked to the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). An internal audit of the ESIC has revealed that dozens of women employees of private sector companies linked[Read More…]
Varanasi, May 27 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that chemistry had managed to defeat arithmetic in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “Elections are all about arithmetic but there is chemistry that goes beyond arithmetic. This time chemistry has defeated arithmetic,” he said while addressing Bharatiya Janata Party[Read More…]
