Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekar Rao on Monday evening called on DMK President M.K. Stalin at his residence here in an attempt to form a non-Congress, non-BJP grouping of political parties. The meeting between the two leaders lasted over an hour. Rao left Stalin’s residence without[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Sun Pharma on Monday suffered a sudden and steep fall during the final hours of trade on the BSE. The pharma major’s scrip declined over 20 per cent to hit a 52-week low of Rs 350.40 apiece, but recovered towards the close. It closed 9.39 per[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) FMCG major ITC Ltd on Monday said its board of directors has appointed company Managing Director Sanjiv Puri as its Chairman with immediate effect following the demise of Y. C. Deveshwar, who was the Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the diversified conglomerate. “…the Board of Directors[Read More…]
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala/Guwahati, May 13 (IANS) Intense heat wave conditions and deficit pre-monsoon rains have hit normal life across the northeastern region and also severely affected the supply of drinking water, officials said. However, agricultural experts said that at the moment there is no major threat to the seasonal[Read More…]
London, May 13 (IANS) A 31-year-old Indian woman has been threatened with deportation by UK Home Office officials despite being in a coma after having a major operation. Bhavani Espathi, 31, who was in a vegetative state for a week and a half after undergoing the operation, received a letter[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) A man, who claimed to be a personal assistant to BJP’s West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh, was arrested along with an accomplice after Rs 1 crore of unaccounted money was seized from them in Asansol station on Monday, Railway Police sources said. The duo were[Read More…]
Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh), May 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked the Congress saying that the party had a problem saying “Bharat Mata ki jai” but found pleasure in abusing him. He said that the country will now decide whether it would be run by “desh bhakti” (patriotism)[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Higher food prices accelerated India’s April retail inflation to 2.92 per cent from 2.86 per cent in March, official data showed on Monday. –IANS rv/mr
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is gearing up for “Kabir Singh”, says the use of alcohol and cigarettes is just to express the pain of the character, and that the audience should not get drawn into it. Shahid, along with Kiara Advani and the makers of the[Read More…]
Los Angeles, May 13 (IANS) Singer Mel B has revealed that she is still having therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) triggered by the “traumatic” marriage to her former husband Stephen Belafonte. During a show, the singer, 43, revealed that she is still battling symptoms of anxiety and flashbacks from[Read More…]
Dehradun, May 13 (IANS) Come summers, and forest fires have started raging in Uttarakhand, officials said on Monday. According to data provided by the Forest Department, nearly 1,000 hectare of forests have been affected this season owing to forest fires at a number of places. This include 783 hectare of[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Choreographer and model Aadil Khan has come out with a new segment “Dance Pe Chance With Aadil Khan” on his YouTube channel. The first episode of the show was dropped online a few days ago. It featured Aadil and actress Elli Avram. They are seen dancing[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) A heated verbal battle and loud voices — the situation is now warming up in the youth-based reality show “Roadies Real Heroes” as gang leaders Neha Dhupia, Nikhil Chinapa and Prince Narula were seen engaged in an argument. It began with ‘Ringmaster’ Rannvijay Singha introducing this[Read More…]
Khanna/Hoshiarpur (Punjab), May 13 (IANS) Congress leader Sam Pitroda must apologize to the nation for his remarks in connection with the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and those guilty of the riots should be punished, party President Rahul Gandhi said on Monday. He reiterated that Pitroda’s “Hua toh hua” (it just[Read More…]
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) Forty-seven security personnel were injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district when stone pelting mobs went on the rampage following the rape of a three-year-old in Bandipora. At least one officer was in critical condition. An official statement said an Assistant Commander of Sashastra Seema Bal[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Falling for the ninth successive session on Monday, the key equity indices, Sensex and Nifty, declined over 1 per cent following massive volatility during the session. The BSE Sensex ferried over 580 points between the days highs and lows before closing 372.17 points lower at 37,090.82.[Read More…]
Jaipur, May 13 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of playing politics on the Alwar gang-rape and using the issue as a political tool to draw mileage in the Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to the media at his residence, he said Modi had[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) FMCG major ITC Ltd on Monday reported a 18.7 per cent rise in its net profit to Rs 3,481.9 crore in the fourth quarter of financial year 2018-19 (FY19), compared to Rs 2,932.71 crore in the year-ago period. Gross revenue for the quarter stood at Rs[Read More…]
Ujjain, May 13 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offered prayers and performed panchamrat abhishek at the Mahakaleshwar temple here on Monday. Arriving from Indore, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a chopper to Ujjain. She was accompanied by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath. She will campaign for Congress candidates[Read More…]
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekar Rao on Monday evening called on DMK President M.K. Stalin at his residence here in an attempt to form a non-Congress, non-BJP grouping of political parties. Details from the meeting were not immediately available. Stalin had earlier proposed Congress President Rahul[Read More…]
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Sandwiched within the provocatively titled book, “The Assassination of Indira Gandhi”, Upamanyu Chatterjees collection of short stories takes a wide sweep of rural and urban India’s landscapes, and ‘peoplescapes’, through a range of extreme narratives, which deal with the figurative as well as fecal. The titular short[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Modi government did not scrap Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, because of “sensitive situation” in the state, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. Senior BJP leader Gadkari, however, maintained that the party is committed to scrapping this special provision[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) With Lok Sabha polls coming to an end with the last phase of voting on May 19, the satisfaction level of the people with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party remains high as most of the respondents in CVOTER-IANS tracker continue to give a thumbs up[Read More…]
Srinagar, May 13 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday sought exemplary punishment to whoever raped a minor in Bandipora district as widespread protests rocked the Kashmir Valley, shutting down businesses and educational institutions. “Governor has expressed deep shock and pain over the extremely heinous incident of[Read More…]