New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) As China’s Two Sessions – the country’s biggest political meetings of the year – kicked off on Sunday, state-run news agency Xinhua chose “Xin Xiaomeng” to make a one-minute video presentation, debuting the agency’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered news anchor and triggering renewed concerns among[Read More…]
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) The Border Security Force has seized 1.5 kg of snake venom powder from West Bengal’s Malda district and arrested one person, a BSF officer said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, the BSF troopers conducted a joint raid with the forest department officials in Malda’s Gazole[Read More…]
Washington, March 4 (IANS) As many as 23 people were killed in the US state of Alabama as a cluster of storms ripped through the country’s Southeast region, spawning multiple tornadoes and leaving a trail of destruction. The first tornado warning in central Alabama went out at around 1 p.m.[Read More…]
Washington, March 4 (IANS) John Hickenlooper, who served two terms as Governor of Colorado, on Monday joined the Democratic race for the 2020 US presidential election, citing an ability to bring people together in a time of “crisis”. “It’s official,” he wrote in a morning tweet. “I’m asking you to[Read More…]
Srinagar, March 4 (IANS) All the mainstream political parties, which met the Election Commission (EC) team here on Monday, have favoured holding simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and the Assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. Senior leaders of the National Conference (NC) including Ali Muhammad Sagar, Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan and[Read More…]
By Ravi Dutta Mishra and Subhash Narayan Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) The directors of the embattled IL&FS Group ignored its own credit risk management team’s advice and went on extending loans worth nearly Rs 2,000 crore to companies facing acute financial stress, an audit report has said. In a damning[Read More…]
By Amiya Kumar Kushwaha New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Islamic State (IS) sympathisers were using videos of Light Series on YouTube, a Yemen preacher and writer Anwar Al-Awlaki in the Al-Qaeda magazine, ‘Inspire’, and controversial Australian preacher Musa Cerantonio to motivate people to join them, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has[Read More…]
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu), March 4 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally at Kelambakkam, near Chennai, on Wednesday, Union Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal has said. The rally will also be attended by leaders of other National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parties from Tamil Nadu, including All[Read More…]
Jammu, March 4 (IANS) The trans-Line of Control bus service between Poonch and Rawalakot in divided Kashmir was suspended on Monday after Pakistan Army refused to open gates on the Zero Point. Poonch lies in India while Rawalakot is in Pakistan-controlled part. “The cross LoC bus carrying passengers left Chakan[Read More…]
Seoul, March 4 (IANS) South Korea on Monday proposed trilateral dialogue with the US and North Korea after denuclearisation talks between Washington and Pyongyang collapsed in Hanoi last week. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said the government in Seoul, to get the nuclear talks back on track, would seek[Read More…]
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) Regular commercial flights are expected to become operational soon from Sindhudurg Airport, making it the first in the coastal Konkan region to be on the country’s air map, while a memorandum of understanding would be signed for the Ratnagiri Airport, officials said here on Monday. Chief[Read More…]
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) Veteran actor Anil Kapoor has teamed up with Aditya Roy Kapoor, Disha Patani and Kunal Kemmu in the upcoming film “Malang”, which will release on February 14, 2020. Anil tweeted on Monday: “Together we are ‘Malang’. Pleased to announce my first with all these talented artistes.[Read More…]
Colombo, March 4 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government on Monday said that it will change its immigration rules to offer multiple entry visas for business travellers who aim to trade and invest in the island country, according to media reports. Local media quoted the state information office as saying that[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 (IANS) All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Oommen Chandy hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), here on Monday, stating the Congress didn’t need to learn about patriotism from the BJP. “The Congress is a party that was led by Indira Gandhi, whom Atal Bihari[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Monday pointed fingers at the Election Commission (EC) over the delay in the announcement of dates for the Lok Sabha polls and accused the EC of giving a long rope to the Narendra Modi-led government. “Is the Election Commission[Read More…]
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) After his stint as a judge on “Indian Idol” last year, singer Javed Ali will take up judging duties once again, this time for a singing-based reality show for children. “I had a great time on ‘Indian Idol’ and now I am continuing my journey with[Read More…]
London, March 4 (IANS) Environmental contaminants found in home and diet have the same adverse effects on male fertility both in humans and domestic dogs, finds a new study highlighting the decline in sperm quality in both the species over the past few years. The findings, published in the journal[Read More…]
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) The Indian remakes of British television drama “Criminal Justice” and Israeli crime thriller “Hostages” will air on OTT platform Hotstar. Apart from these, “The Office” and “City of Dreams” are a part of the initial slate from Applause Entertainment for Hotstar Specials. Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal[Read More…]
Chandigarh, March 4 (IANS) Punjab’s ruling Congress party minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday urged the BJP-led Central government to stop politicising the army for the ruling party’s political ends and questioned the Centre over the damage inflicted on the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp in Pakistan. In a series of[Read More…]
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) Actors Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor along with director Ayan Mukerji have left for Prayagraj to unveil the first official material from their upcoming film “Brahmastra” on the occasion of Maha Shivratri. Alia took to Instagram to share the update. “Hi guys, we are on the plane[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Baijayant Jay Panda on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here in the presence of Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Juel Oram and other senior party leaders. Panda, a four-time member of Parliament, was elected to the Lok Sabha[Read More…]
London, March 4 (IANS) Singer Keith Flint, vocalist of The Prodigy band, was found dead at his home in Essex on Monday. He was 49. An Essex police spokesman confirmed the news of Flint’s demise, reported The Guardian. “We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) As organisations get better at detecting data breaches, hackers have become increasingly persistent, retargeting the firms they earlier broke into, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Monday. The financial services sector was seen to have the largest number of retargeted victims in 2018, particularly[Read More…]
Hyderabad, March 4 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Monday asked Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his son and IT Minister Nara Lokesh to face the probe in data theft case, instead of making baseless allegations against Telangana government. Rama Rao said[Read More…]
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, here on Monday, said her government has been successful in reducing road accidents by 14 per cent in the state. “(The) 48th National Safety Week begins today. In #Bangla, our #SafeDriveSaveLife campaign has been effective and successful in reducing the[Read More…]
