New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Congress on Friday termed as “rehashed insinuations, lies, and cheap election stunt” the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) act of mentioning names of some party leaders in their supplementary chargesheet in the AgustaWestland case and said a “panic-stricken” Modi Government will not be able to change[Read More…]
Lucknow, April 5 (IANS) Calling the Muslim League a “virus”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the Congress has been infected by it and if the party wins the elections, the virus would spread all over the country. “The Muslim League is a virus, and spares no[Read More…]
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh), April 5 (IANS) Accusing the Congress of insulting Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the author of the Indian Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Babasaheb had challenged “the family” and paid for it because its generations continued to avenge him. Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) WhatsApp’s “Checkpoint Tipline” service that was launched with much fanfare on April 2 to help users in India report fake news is not a helpline number but a data-gathering research project to help the Facebook-owned platform understand how the misinformation spreads. According to Proto, a[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government has withdrawn security cover of 919 “undeserving persons”, including 22 separatist leaders involved in anti-national activities, in the last 10 months, the Union Home Ministry said on Friday. Following the move, a total of 2,768 police personnel and 389 vehicles[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Congress on Friday said that veteran BJP leader L.K. Advanis remarks that the party never regarded political foes as “anti-nationals” was a “stinging indictment of demeaning politics” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah. “BJP patriarch and Modiji’s political guru Advani[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 5 (IANS) It was this day exactly five decades back that the erstwhile Hindustan Latex Ltd, now known as the state-run HLL Lifecare Ltd, produced the first condom in the country at its factory near here. As it celebrates its golden jubilee, condom production at HLL Lifecare has[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The RBI is likely to adopt a more accommodative approach towards resolution of stressed assets when it issues a revised circular sometime in the next few days, against the February 12 circular quashed by the Supreme Court. Sources said the major contention in the controversial[Read More…]
Mohali, April 5 (IANS) A day after Rajasthan Royals batsman Jos Buttler said that the rules of ‘Mankading’ needed clarity, Kings XI Punjab skipper R. Ashwin reiterated his decision to ‘Mankad’ Buttler, adding that his ‘conscience was clear’. “There is nothing to defend,” Ashwin said on Thursday. “As I said[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) If “Bobby Jasoos” actress Vidya Balan had to turn a spy, she says she would love to investigate megastar Amitabh Bachchan. On her radio show “Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho”, Vidya opened up about her habit of decoding people in real life. Vidya was in conversation[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) Actress Shruti Marathe, known for her stint in Marathi films like “Asa Mi Tasa Mi” and “Premasutra”, has spoken out about a movie producer’s misconduct with her while she was auditioning for a lead role in a film. In a post shared on the official Humans[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 5 (IANS) Joining the league of other tech giants and their big fancy annual conferences like Facebook’s “F8”, Google’s “I/O” and Apple’s “WWDC”, photo-messaging app Snapchat hosted its first “Partner Summit” in California. The motive of the event was to unveil new products – some for users,[Read More…]
Itanagar, April 5 (IANS) Indian Army soldiers along with a police representative found the wreckage of a World War II US Air Force aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh, an official release said on Friday. A 12-member Indian Army patrolling team along with a police representative recovered the wreckage in Roing district[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday told a court here that the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet in the JNU sedition case in haste and secretly without getting the sanction of the competent authority. The government also told the court that it will take one more[Read More…]
By Baidurjo Bhose New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Team India skipper Virat Kohli recently emphasised the need for players to be smart during the Indian Premier League (IPL) as the World Cup is round the corner. So while the players are busy plying their trade for various franchises, national physio[Read More…]
New York, April 5 (IANS) A man in the US was arrested after he discussed on Facebook an American re-enactment of last month’s attacks on two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch city. Thomas Alonzo Bolin, 22, was charged on Thursday with lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in[Read More…]
Patna, April 5 (IANS) A case was filed on Friday at a court in Bihar’s Begusarai against Union Minister Giriraj Singh for making a casteist remark against a Congress MLA. Besides Singh, the case filed by Rashtriya Lok Samta Party leader Rajiv Kumar, also named Mahant Shankar Das of the[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 5 (IANS) The main opposition Congress party said on Friday that its President Rahul Gandhi was not bound to respond to CPI-M criticism over his decision to contest the Lok Sabha election from Wayanad in Kerala. Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala taunted the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist[Read More…]
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh), April 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the opposition for questioning the Indian Air Force’s Balakot airstrike, saying whenever “Pakistan is unmasked”, its supporters in India take its side. Addressing a public rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha, Modi said: “It[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) Bollywood actor Anshuman Jha, who plays a pivotal role in “No Fathers in Kashmir”, says though he keeps working in independent cinema, he usually does not get enough film offers from mainstream Bollywood. “Since I have been acting since the age of 13, I have invested[Read More…]
By Quaid Najmi Pune, April 5 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi virtually brought the house down on Friday when he said: “I love Narendra Modi.” In a free-wheeling live interaction with over 5,000 college students at the Lakshmi Lawns in Hadapsar suburb here, Gandhi took wide-ranging questions from the gathering,[Read More…]
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh), April 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for honouring him with the nation’s highest civilian honour — the Order of Zayed — for boosting bilateral relations between the two countries. “I would like to thank the[Read More…]
By Amita Verma Lucknow, April 5 (IANS) They are children of political leaders and have now taken over the responsibility of serving as quintessential backroom boys while their fathers contest the elections. Neeraj Singh, the younger son of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, is managing the campaign of his father[Read More…]
Dubai, April 5 (IANS) Experienced Pakistan cricketers Wahab Riaz, Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad are likely to miss the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 as they have not been included in the list of 23 probables for the 15-member squad. An official statement by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) also[Read More…]
Kuala Lumpur, April 5 (IANS) The Indian challenge came to an end in the Malaysia Open 2019 as Kidambi Srikanth lost his quarter-final match to Olympic champion Chen Long of China here on Friday. Srikanth went down in straight games 18-21, 19-21 in the 48-minute contest. The 26-year-old was the[Read More…]
