By Kaushik Kumar New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Expressing confidence ahead of the 2019 shooting World Cup, to be held at the Dr Karni Singh shooting range here from February 20, Commonwealth Games 2014 gold medallist Apurvi Chandela hopes the prestigious event will fetch India a number of Olympic quotas.[Read More…]
Amsterdam, Feb 14 (IANS) Real Madrid, chasing a fourth consecutive Champions League title, needed a goal in the final minutes to pull out a 2-1 win against Ajax Amsterdam in the first leg of their round-of-16 tie. Real also got help from the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), which made its[Read More…]
By Radhika Bhirani Singapore, Feb 14 (IANS) It’s a double bonanza that “Captain Marvel” is not just the first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie to star a female superhero, but also have a woman director calling the shots. Anna Boden, one half of the film’s director duo, says it would[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) Several Bollywood personalities including Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Athiya Shetty and Soha Ali Khan attended a prayer meet held for fashion designer-filmmaker Vikram Phadnis’ mother Ranjan Phadnis. Other celebrities who attended the prayer meet for Ranjan, who died on Sunday, were Chunky Pandey, Mana Shetty,[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Feb 14 (IANS) Officers of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and the Sciences (AMPAS) has sent a letter to members trying to allay concerns about the decision to hold four Oscar presentations away from the live broadcast on February 24. “As the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) India’s annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices eased to 2.76 per cent in January 2019 from 3.02 per cent reported for the corresponding month of 2018. –IANS rv/in
San Francisco, Feb 14 (IANS) In a bid to secure developer accounts from hackers, Apple has added the requirement of a two-factor authentication (2FA) protocol for all app makers that would protect their Apple IDs. “2FA will be required to sign in to your Apple Developer account and certificates, identifiers[Read More…]
New York, Feb 14 (IANS) People who have chronic inflammation in middle-age may develop cognitive problems in the decades leading up to old age, researchers say. Chronic inflammation is a low-grade inflammation that lingers for months or even years throughout the body. It can be caused by autoimmune disorders like[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on the powers of the Delhi government, with the issue now being referred to a larger bench. While Justice A.K. Sikri said transfers and postings of Joint Secretaries and officers above will[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 14 (IANS) US space agency NASA has unveiled a new space telescope that would begin a two-year mission in 2023 to look for life’s ingredients and probe how the universe evolved. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionisation and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission is[Read More…]
New York, Feb 14 (IANS) The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the arrest of Maria Ressa, the chief of news portal Rappler, who was arrested earlier on Wednesday in Manila for an alleged “cyber libel” case. “Freedom of the press is an essential pillar of democracy and Human[Read More…]
Damascus, Feb 14 (IANS) One of three schoolgirls who left London in 2015 to join the Islamic State has said she has no regrets despite seeing “beheaded heads” in bins, but wishes to return to her UK home, media reports said. In an interview with the Times, Shamima Begum, 19,[Read More…]
Puducherry, Feb 14 (IANS) The protest by Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy and his five ministers outside Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi’s official residence entered second day on Thursday. The Congress leader his cabinet colleagues spent the Wednesday night on the road outside Raj Nivas. They slept on the road on[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) A massive fire broke out on Thursday in a factory here, a fire officer said, adding that no casualty has been reported so far. A call was received at 7.10 a.m. about the fire that broke out in factory number 113 in Naraina Industrial area[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The key market index S&P BSE Sensex on Thursday opened higher despite a muted trend in Asian markets. Minutes into trading, it quoted at 35,984.02, down by 50.09 points, or 0.14 per cent. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, that closed at 36,034.11 on Wednesday,[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 14 (IANS) Google will invest $13 billion in building new data centres and offices in over a dozen states in the US in 2019, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has said. In a blog post late on Wednesday, Pichai said the investment would create tens of thousands[Read More…]
Srinagar, Feb 14 (IANS) The minimum temperature rose above freezing point here on Thursday as the Met forecast rain and snow in Jammu and Kashmir in the next 24 hours till Friday. “Weather system across the state will intensify and peak during the night with heavy showers in the Jammu[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) On Valentine’s Day, Google doodled the star-crossed iconic character from “Mughal-E-Azam”, Anarkali, made indelible in movie lovers’ mind by the effervescent Madhubala who would have been 86 on Thursday. “The Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood” as the Google blogpost said was raised in the slums of[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 14 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s former election campaign chief Paul Manafort breached his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller by lying to prosecutors, a US judge has said. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Manafort “made multiple false statements” to the FBI, Mueller’s office[Read More…]
New York, Feb 14 (IANS) US stocks ended higher as the market was buoyed by upbeat inflation level shown by US consumer prices in January, and better-than-expected earnings by a batch of US companies for the fourth quarter of 2018. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday rose 117.51 points,[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Feb 14 (IANS) NASA has announced the end of its Opportunity rover’s mission, 15 years after its arrival on Mars. The announcement was made on Wednesday at a press conference at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, following NASA’s last attempt to communicate with the rover[Read More…]
New York, Feb 14 (IANS) The US dollar gained strength as market participants digested a slew of key inflation data. In late New York trading on Wednesday, the euro decreased to $1.1269 from $1.1331 in the previous session, and the British pound was down to $1.2850 from $1.2897 in the[Read More…]
United Nations, Feb 14 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has underscored the importance of radio, saying it reaches more people than any other media platform even in the world of digital communications. “It conveys vital information and raises awareness on important issues. And it is a personal, interactive platform where[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) Celebrated radio presenter Ameen Sayani says his success story includes a lot of obstacles but he would like to remember the triumphs over failures. The 86-year-old Padma Shri recipient said this on Wednesday during a book launch event here. The book — “Let’s Talk On-Air” —[Read More…]
