Los Angeles, May 17 (IANS) Before launching her song on Friday, singer Halsey responded on Twitter to a fan who wanted an “angry anthem”, assuring, “well boy do I have a song for you”. The pop star’s latest single “Nightmare” is exactly what the youth has been waiting for, reports[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) on Friday directed its Kerala unit to conduct re-polling in seven booths in Kasaragod and Kannur parliamentary constituencies of the state on May 19 when 59 Lok Sabha seats across eight states will go to the polls in the seventh and[Read More…]
Panaji, May 17 (IANS) Following an attack on Sidharth Kuncalienkar, the BJP candidate for the Panaji Assembly bypolls, Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar on Friday slammed the BJP-led coalition government in the coastal state over its failure to protect its own candidate. “Congress is not in power. If your (BJP)[Read More…]
Solan (Himachal Pradesh), May 17 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday spoke about the promises kept by Congress governments in different states and asserted that his party’s ambitious Nyay Yojana would jumpstart the economy when implemented. “We told you we would bring MGNREGA and we did. We told you[Read More…]
Toronto, May 17 (IANS) Migration from polluting vehicles that burn fossil fuels to electric vehicles, ideally using electricity generated sustainably could significantly reduce the incidence of cardiopulmonary illness due to air pollution, says a study. This could lead not only to less employee absence from work through illness but also[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, May 17 (IANS) Kerala Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Teeka Ram Meena on Friday ordered re-polling in two booths in the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency and in one booth at Kasargode on May 19. On Thursday, Meena had ordered re-poll in three booths in Kasargode and one in the Kannur[Read More…]
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Bulandshahr, May 17 (IANS) Three persons were killed and four injured when their van collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, police said. The victims were coming back from a wedding when the incident happened late on Thursday. The injured are in a critical condition, police officer Yogendra Malik[Read More…]
Chennai, May 17 (IANS) City Union Bank closed last fiscal with a net profit of Rs 682.85 crore, up from Rs 592 crore registered during the previous year, a senior bank official said on Friday. Aiding these results was also the conscious decision of the bank to stay away from[Read More…]
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Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is joyous that a Director of Photography’s assistant who worked with him on his 1989 film “Main Azaad Hoon”, is now working with him in “Chehre”. He shared a then-and-now photograph on Twitter to share his joy, and pointed out the changes that[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Distancing from the statements of party leaders Pragya Singh Thakur, Ananth Hegde and Nalin Kumar Kateel calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a “patriot”, BJP President Amit Shah on Friday said the party’s Disciplinary Committee will inquire into the matter and submit a report within[Read More…]
London, May 17 (IANS) Their World Cup preparations in full swing, defending champions Australia made a four-day stopover in Turkey on their way here to visit the storied Gallipoli peninsula. The Australian team touched down in England on Friday but decided to bond as a unit in the Gallipoli peninsula[Read More…]
Amaravati, May 17 (IANS) With the Election Commission ordering re-poll in five polling booth following a demand of the YSR Congress Party, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) too has demanded re-polling in 19 polling booths in seven constituencies across Andhra Pradesh. A delegation of the TDP leaders submitted a memorandum[Read More…]
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Jammu, May 17 (IANS) Curfew continued for the second day on Friday in tension-ridden Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, even as police denied cow vigilantes were behind the murder of a local resident. Officials said there would be no relaxation in the curfew yet. Police said five[Read More…]
By Binita Das Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Election officials in West Bengal are gearing up for an altogether different kind of battle with boats, HAM radios and power generating equipment as the world’s largest mangrove, the Sundarbans, votes on Sunday. District officials of the North and South 24-Parganas have made[Read More…]
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Srinagar, May 17 (IANS) The Srinagar airport and the Indian Air Force airbase at Awantipora are already at high alert for over a decade and a half, officials said on Friday in wake of reports about heightened security following an imminent terror threat. A senior intelligence officer, speaking on the[Read More…]
New York, May 17 (IANS) A Sikh youth has claimed that a bar in New York’s Long Island didn’t let him enter because he was wearing a turban. Gurvinder Grewal, a recent graduate from the Stony Brook University, went out to meet his friends late night on May 11 at[Read More…]
San Francisco, May 17 (IANS) Facebook is in the process of restoring a number of groups that were affected by “sabotage” and were erroneously removed, the media reported. Facebook removed several groups from the platform after detecting content that violated its policies, but an investigation revealed that the content had[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will never forgive BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur and others for glorifying Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as “deshbhakt” (patriot). “Whatever statements have been made on Gandhiji or Godse are very bad. They[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Actress Tanushree Dutta helped trigger the #MeToo movement in India last year, and months have gone into the investigation of her sexual harassment case. But her sister and actress Ishita Dutta says that thanks to her sister, now people are acknowledging that harassment is a serious[Read More…]
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