Shimla, March 3 (IANS) After overnight rainfall and snow, most parts of Himachal Pradesh woke up to a sunny Sunday morning with the Met Department predicting dry weather ahead. While icy winds and rain kept the minimum temperature in Shimla at 2.5 degrees Celsius, in Manali it was at minus[Read More…]
Los Angeles, March 3 (IANS) Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Booker T. & the MGs are among the performers named as inductees to the Blues Hall of Fame. The Blues Foundation announced this year’s honourees on Friday. An induction ceremony is scheduled for May 8 at the Halloran Centre for the[Read More…]
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet plans to aggressively expand its international networks to fly out of the low fare and high fuel price operating environment. According to SpiceJet’s CMD Ajay Singh, the airline plans to aggressively deploy its new 737Max aircraft on international[Read More…]
Amethi, March 3 (IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s high-profile visit on Sunday to Amethi, the parliamentary constituency of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, posters opposing him have cropped up in many parts of the Uttar Pradesh district. Put up by Jaisingh Pratap Yadav, a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, the[Read More…]
Panaji, March 3 (IANS) Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was again hospitalised for “tests and examinations” on Sunday, a hospital official said here. “The Chief Minister has been admitted to conduct tests and examinations to check if the internal bleeding, which he was suffering from, is completely under check,”[Read More…]
By Rohit Vaid Mumbai, March 3 (IANS) Indo-Pak tensions, along with build-up of anxiety over the general elections and clamour around global growth concerns has culminated into a ‘Tri-Star’ formation on monthly technical charts which is expected to push the Indian equity markets out of the present trade range. In[Read More…]
Los Angeles, March 3 (IANS) Actress Rose McGowan accepted that she had an abortion and says she does not regret her decision. The “Grindhouse” star opened up about her decision via Twitter on Friday, as she responded to a statistic that one in four women has terminated a pregnancy before[Read More…]
London, March 3 (IANS) Elderly people, who consume a high-fat diet rich in Omega-6 fatty acids, could be at risk of developing health issues ranging from diabetes to heart failure, researchers, including one Indian-origin, said in a study. The study conducted on a mice model showed that a calorie-dense, obesity-generating[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Actor Darshan Kumaar says that he only opts for roles that are impactful and offers some kind of relevance to a film. Darshan made his Bollywood debut with “Tere Naam”, but rose to fame with “Mary Kom”, where he portrayed the role of Onler Kom.[Read More…]
Dehradun, March 3 (IANS) The higher reaches of Uttarakhand received fresh snowfall, the Met Department said on Sunday. “Several high altitude areas received snowfall on Saturday night,” Met Director Vikram Singh said. Reports reaching here said Kedarnath, Badrinath and Auli in Garhwal region received snowfall. Similarly, Munsiyari and other nearby[Read More…]
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) Stepping up vigil ahead of festivals like Shivratri, Holi and also the Lok Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the state administration to crackdown on criminals and anti-social elements, an official said on Sunday. In a video-conference with District Magistrates (DMs) and[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Despite a below-average mobile penetration in Pakistan, cheaper Chinese smartphones have flooded the country — especially its interior parts. The initial video and photos of captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman that the world saw on various social media platforms and created a[Read More…]
Panaji, March 3 (IANS) Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was discharged from a hospital on Sunday, an hour after he was admitted for “tests and examinations”, an official said here. “The Chief Minister was discharged after few medical tests. The reports are awaited. He has left for his residence,”[Read More…]
London, March 3 (IANS) The husband of Shamima Begum, a British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away in 2015 to become an Islamic State (IS) jihadi bride, has said that he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him. Speaking to the BBC on Saturday night, Yago Riedijk,[Read More…]
Bogota, March 3 (IANS) The four-day-long annual Barranquilla carnival, the second-largest in the world, began in Colombia with the Battle of Flowers, a grand parade attended by more than 600,000 people. One of the most popular festivals in the country, the carnival, declared by Unesco as Masterpieces of the Oral[Read More…]
By Gokul Bhagabati New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The hysteria unleashed on social media platforms after Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman’s plane crashed in Pakistani territory on February 27 is partly responsible for the sudden shift in focus from fighting cross-border terrorism to bringing the pilot back home, experts believe. The[Read More…]
San Francisco, March 3 (IANS) Two US police officers will not face charges for shooting dead Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in California last March, prosecutors have said. Clark, 22, was shot on March 18, 2018, in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, the state capital, the BBC reported. District[Read More…]
By Yajurvindra Singh The T20 format has brought a radical change in the way cricket is perceived and played at present. The art of stroke-play while batting has brought in innovative shots, showcasing how the game is progressing in all aspects. Corporates have followed two cardinal principles in creating a[Read More…]
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal) and N. Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh), disgruntled BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha — who has quit the saffron party — are among the top leaders the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is[Read More…]
Patna, March 3 (IANS) Thousands of people have gathered in Patna on Sunday to witness Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar share the stage at the NDA’s Sankalp rally. This is the first time Nitish Kumar and Modi will come together on the same platform after[Read More…]
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) It was a cold and cloudy Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 11.5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The day will be cloudy and there are chances of light rains and thunderstorm,”[Read More…]
By D.C. Pathak The successful strike made by a dozen Mirage 2000 jets of the Indian Air Force on Feb 26 to take out the biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed at Balakot in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, in just about ten days after the terror attack on the[Read More…]
By Vinod Mirani Filmmaking has been all about trendsetting and following trends. Sounds nice. But, when the same thing is said in Hindi, it is called Bhed Chaal, not so complementary a term. Writers have always been a least acknowledged and paid community in films. That was true till things[Read More…]
Washington, March 3 (IANS) US President Donald Trump attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, and called him an “unelected prosecutor running unchecked”. In a largely unscripted, wide-ranging speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday lasting more than two[Read More…]
Washington, March 3 (IANS) The US and South Korea announced that the annual large-scale exercises, which were a ccommon feature of the defence relationship between the two militaries, will end and be re-configured into smaller manoeuvres. The announcement follows a phone call on Saturday between acting US Defence Secretary Patrick[Read More…]
