By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) After the success of the Global T20 Canada, league owner Gurmeet Singh is now set to take up the challenge of popularising the game in Europe. The man behind getting the big names to ply their trade in Canada will be a[Read More…]
Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh), April 6 (IANS) Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday held a grand road show before filing her nomination from the Kannauj parliamentary seat. During the road show, she was seen with her husband and children on a chariot. MPs Jaya Bachchan[Read More…]
Panaji, April 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa on Saturday filed a police complaint against a forged letter with a fabricated party letterhead protesting the entry of late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s sons into politics. In a complaint to the Panaji Police Station, BJP’s Panaji Mandal President[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and Asha Bhonsle wished a year full of happiness, peace and prosperity and more to their well-wishers on the festival of Gudi Padwa and the first day of the Navratras on Saturday. The celebrities took to Twitter to extend[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 6 (IANS) Governor Jay Inslee of Washington has signed a bill into law raising the state’s smoking age to 21 years, making it the ninth in the country to introduce such legislation, officials said. The new law, which was signed on Friday, raised the legal minimum age[Read More…]
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) is planning to celebrate Ram Navami on April 14 in a big way in West Bengal by bringing out over 700 processions across the state, an official said here on Saturday. “Last year, we organised the festival on a very large[Read More…]
London, April 6 (IANS) Spending time online, gaming or watching TV, especially before bedtime, may not damage young people’s mental health, finds a new research challenging previous notions on screen time. The study, published in Psychological Science journal, casts doubt on the widely-accepted relationship between screen time and well-being in[Read More…]
By Jaydeep Basu New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Newly-elected FIFA council member Praful Patel, on Saturday said he will use his position in the world body for the greater good of Indian football. Speaking to IANS, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) president said he would soon resolve the crisis[Read More…]
Washington, April 6 (IANS) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close approach to the Sun, the US space agency has said. The maneuver, called a perihelion, resulted in a closest approach at 6:40 p.m. EDT (2240 GMT) on April 4. The spacecraft was about 24 million kms[Read More…]
Amaravati, April 6 (IANS) Farm investment support of Rs 12,500 per annum, free crop insurance and interest-free loans for farmers are some of the major promises made by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) in its election manifesto released on Saturday. Releasing the manifesto for the April 11 elections to the[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) All India Football Federation president Praful Patel was elected a FIFA council member at the 29th AFC Congress Malaysia held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. A total of five candidates including Patel were elected in addition to the AFC president, and one female member for[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 6 (IANS) Google has accidentally leaked a new Pixel device called “3a” on its website, media reported. “Pixel 3a” is being speculated to be Google’s long-rumoured “lite” version of the “Pixel 3” smartphone, The Verge reported on Friday. While Google has taken down the information page from[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Rebel BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday joined the Congress ending his decades-old association with the Bharatiya Janata Party. The actor-turned-politician ended weeks of suspense over his political future and joined the Congress saying that he hoped it will provide him with the opportunity to[Read More…]
Washington, April 6 (IANS) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he is “confident” that Washington will hold another summit with Pyongyang to further denuclearization talks, a follow-up to President Donald Trumps fruitless meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in February. “I am confident there will be” a[Read More…]
Seoul, April 6 (IANS) LG Electronics Inc. has said its first quarter operating profits are expected to drop 18.8 per cent from a year earlier, mainly due to its sluggish smartphone business. In an earnings guidance, the South Korean electronics major said it expects to post 899.6 billion Won ($791.8[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) “Ragini MMS Returns” actress Karishma Sharma will play an aspiring actress in ALTBalajis upcoming show titled “Fixer”. “Initially, I wasn’t sure about doing the show. But after reading the script and understanding my character, I was excited to be on board. My character is a small-town[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday exuded confidence that the lotus will bloom in Odisha as he targeted the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Congress for “territorial discrimination”. “The discrimination on the basis of territory that the BJD government is doing in Odisha, the same discrimination[Read More…]
Dharamsala, April 6 (IANS) Actor Ranveer Singh is in the process of “becoming the hurricane” under the training of iconic cricketer Kapil Dev for the upcoming film “’83”, a Bollywood entertainer on India’s historical 1983 Cricket World Cup win. On Saturday, Ranveer tweeted a photograph of himself along with Kapil[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) A group of 11 tribal students including four girls from Adivasi Ashram Schools in Maharashtra will embark on an expedition to scale Mt. Everest on Sunday, an official said here on Saturday. Trained by experts to tackle the tough and cold mountainous terrain and genetically gifted[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 6 (IANS) An attorney for seven women who accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct announced that they have settled a defamation case against him. Cosby was sued in 2014 by Tamara Green, who alleges that Cosby sexually assaulted her in the 1970s. Green first made the[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 6 (IANS) Actress Pallavi Sharda, who has worked in Bollywood films like “Besharam”, “Begum Jaan” and “Hawaizaada”, has been tapped as the female lead opposite Mike Vogel in the ABC drama pilot “Triangle”. Written by Jon Harmon Feldman and Sonny Postiglione, and directed by McG, “Triangle” poses[Read More…]
Chennai, April 6 (IANS) International actress Daisy Edgar Jones, who has starred in films such as “Pond Life” and “War of the Worlds”, has opted out of filmmaker S.S. Rajamoulis upcoming action multi-starrer “RRR” citing family reasons. Daisy took to her Instagram page to share the news of opting out[Read More…]
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Majili” (Tamil); Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Samantha Akkineni, Divyansha Kaushik; Director: Shiva Nirvana; Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) There is a sense of tragic continuity, a resigned acceptance of fate, if you will, in the way the tangle within the love triangle plays[Read More…]
Washington, April 6 (IANS) Boeing has announced that it was temporarily cutting production of its best-selling 737 Max airliner as the company works to return the plane to flight following the aircraft’s fall-out from crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia in the span of about five months. “We have decided to[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday ended the suspense over his political future and joined the Congress here with the hope it will provide him with the opportunity to serve people, society, and the nation. The former Bharatiya Janata Party MP joined Congress at the pert[Read More…]
