Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), Feb 22 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday urged the people to give back to the society to help the underprivileged. He was speaking at the 18th anniversary celebrations of Swarna Bharat Trust, a social service organisation founded by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, at Venkatachalam[Read More…]
Beijing, Feb 22 (IANS) China on Friday said that the forced entry of humanitarian aid into Venezuela could lead to conflict and warned that Beijing opposed military intervention in the country. “If the so-called humanitarian assistance is forcefully sent into Venezuela, it might trigger a conflict and have severe consequences.[Read More…]
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Feb 22 (IANS) Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and founder of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Mulayam Singh Yadav continues to baffle his own party leaders and political observers alike by repeatedly making statements that can benefit the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and embarrass his son and[Read More…]
Tokyo, Feb 22 (IANS) Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft on Friday landed on the surface of an asteroid located 340 million km fromthe Earth to collect space-rock samples, a significant step in a complex mission to study the origin of life. The probe touched down on Ryugu’s surface at 7.49 a.m., according[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Artificial Intelligence-based legal tech start-up SpotDraft on Friday said it has received $1.5 million (around Rs 11 crore) in a pre-Series A funding round from a consortium of companies led by private equity (PE) firm ‘021 Capital’. PE firm ‘021 Capital’ is backed by Flipkart[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Grammy-nominated songwriter Raja Kumari, also a rapper, has released “Bloodline”, which has “battle anthems”. “‘Bloodline’ asks the question, ‘Who are you?’ It’s not just about your family line or your heritage. Who are you? What runs through your veins and what are you willing to fight[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) Seven people including two women and four children of the same family were charred to death in West Bengal’s Purulia district in the early hours of Friday, police said. The reason for the fire has not yet been ascertained. “The incident took place after midnight. Four[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Singer-songwriter Shannon K, daughter of singer Kumar Sanu, has dedicated her latest single “Always” to people experiencing heartbreak. “A heartbreak is always difficult and we all have gone through it at some point in life. It’s a time when one needs near and dear ones close[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 22 (IANS) Well-known Telugu filmmaker Kodi Ramakrishna, best known for directing memorable films such as “Ankusam”,”Ammoru” and “Arundhati” among others, died here on Friday. According to a source close to Ramakrishna’s family, he passed away while undergoing treatment at AIG Hospitals here. “On Thursday, he was rushed to[Read More…]
Sydney, Feb 22 (IANS) People with diabetes are more likely to suffer from low backache or neck pain as compared to a healthy person, say researchers. The study showed that diabetes, which affects an estimated 382 million people worldwide, contributes to a 35 per cent higher risk of low back[Read More…]
New York, Feb 22 (IANS) Using Blockchain technology, researchers, including one of Indian origin, have created a novel system that could help ensure the integrity of data in clinical trials. The system creates an immutable audit trail that makes it easy to spot any tampering with results, such as making[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Editors Guild of India on Friday condemned the ongoing tirade of abuse and intimidation of mediapersons, especially women journalists, in the wake of their reporting and commentary in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. As much of these attacks came in the form[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) India’s tour to Pakistan for the Davis Cup Group 1 tie is not doubtful and the All India Tennis Association (AITA) has not requested for a change of venue in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack. There were reports that India might refuse to play[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Feb 22 (IANS) The Mother India Language (MIL) question paper allegedly went viral on social media about an hour after the commencement of the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination on Friday. This is the first day of the HSC examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE),[Read More…]
Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu), Feb 22 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government will not let the sacrifice of 40 CRPF troopers to go in vain. He also said the NDA will win 35 Lok Sabha seats out of 39 in Tamil[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, two former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers, on Friday welcomed a Supreme Court direction on protection of Kashmiri students outside the state. An apex court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, hearing a petition filed by Tariq[Read More…]
Patna, Feb 22 (IANS) Senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said the cricket is not an Indian game, and kabaddi and football should be promoted. “Cricket is not an Indian game, it came from England. Most of the countries playing cricket were once[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The crucial BCCI CoA meeting on Friday failed to decide whether India should play against Pakistan in the upcoming ICC cricket World Cup in the United Kingdom in May-July in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack. After a four-hour-long meeting, the three-member Committee of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Government think tank Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Friday said banks are in a position to pass on interest rate cut benefits to the consumers and the industry. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had on February 7 announced a repo rate cut[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said that it would hold final hearing in April on a batch of petitions, including one by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), challenging the Kerala High Court order discharging Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others in an alleged[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday moved an application in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre to stay an AirAsia India plea seeking permission to fly internationally. Swamy told the court that various media reports are saying that AirAsia[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) High crude oil prices and fears of a rise in core inflation subdued the key Indian equity indices on Friday. According to market observes, crude oil at $67 per barrel and caution over a likely rise in core inflation pointed out in the Reserve Bank of[Read More…]
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Total Dhamaal”; Director: Indra Kumar; Cast: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaaferi, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Esha Gupta, Boman Irani, Sanjay Mishra, Pitobash Tripathy, Mahesh Manjrekar; Rating: *** This is the third film of the series and like its predecessors, this one too is[Read More…]
Seoul, Feb 22 (IANS) In a veiled attack on Pakistan on cross-border terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that time has come for the global community to join hands to completely eradicate terrorist networks and their supply channels and to counter terrorist ideology. Modi made the remarks in[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 22 (IANS) Fulfilling poll promises of unemployment allowance, hike in social security pensions and farm loan waiver, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday presented Vote-on-Account Budget for 2019-20 that has an expenditure of Rs 1,82,017 crore, an increase of 4 per cent over the previous year’s[Read More…]
