Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Former beauty queen and Bollywood newcomer Manushi Chhillar is thrilled to be home for Diwali this year, as she will finally get to meet her doctor mother Neelam Chhillar, who was in Delhi working through the Covid pandemic. The Chhillar family will finally come together again[Read More…]
London, Nov 13 (IANS) World no.1 Novak Djokovic has been drawn in a group with Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev and Diego Schwartzman at the upcoming ATP Finals. The men’s tennis season finale is going to be held in London from November 15 to 22 and the top eight singles and[Read More…]
Lima, Nov 13 (IANS) Ousted Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra, who was impeached earlier this week, appeared before a prosecutor to testify over bribery allegations, and ruled out leaving the country. “As a citizen, I am not going to leave the country, I am not going to go to any embassy[Read More…]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Apple has officially released macOS Big Sur as a free software update which is the biggest Mac update in years and brings new design enhancements to Safari, Messages, Maps, and privacy, and is engineered for Apples powerful in-house M1 chip. Big Sur introduces a beautiful[Read More…]
Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has started preparing to stock the Covid vaccine when it comes. Dr. A.P. Chaturvedi, state immunization officer, said “We do not know how many vaccine vials will be coming, but the infrastructure will be ready. Construction of depots is[Read More…]
Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has begun the process of setting up 18 new Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS) in eight cities of the state. Five of these air quality monitoring stations will come up in Agra, one each in Mathura and[Read More…]
Moscow, Nov 13 (IANS) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that if all parties in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict honour the ceasefire agreement, everyone will benefit from it. “I am sure that if we carry out everything that we agreed upon, and I currently see no signs that someone is[Read More…]
Perth, Nov 13 (IANS) The Perth Scorchers have bolstered their batting units with the signing of destructive New Zealand batsman Colin Munro for the upcoming Big Bash League season. “To jump on board with such a successful, established club that has been playing great cricket since the BBL started was[Read More…]
Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Jab Tak Hai Jaan, the last film directed by the late Yash Chopra, was released eight years ago on this day. The Diwali 2012 release starring Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma is still recalled for the unforgettable songs AR Rahman scored for the[Read More…]
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) The Pentagon has confirmed that six US service members were killed in a helicopter crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “We are saddened by the loss of six US and two partner nation service members in a helicopter crash in the Sinai Peninsula operating with the Multinational[Read More…]
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 13 (IANS) Even as the Yogi Adityanath government initiates action against the police personnel found to have been hand-in-glove with slain gangster Vikas Dubey, another shocking proof of Dubey’s nexus with a village Panchayat official has emerged. The state government, on Thursday evening, suspended Deputy Inspector[Read More…]
London, Nov 13 (IANS) Eoin Morgan and Heather Knight, England’s World Cup winning captains, have been retained by London Spirit for the 2021 season of The Hundred. Both will lead the men’s and women’s teams based out of London for the inaugural season of the competition, which was postponed to[Read More…]
San Francisco, Nov 13 (IANS) Twitter labeled nearly 300,000 tweets under its Civic Integrity Policy for content that was disputed and potentially misleading in the US election period from October 27 till November 11. These represent 0.2 per cent of all US election-related Tweets sent during this time period. According[Read More…]
London, Nov 13 (IANS) Alok Sharma, the UK’s Indian-origin Business Secretary, has urged the general public to abide by the restrictions imposed across the country in an effort to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Sharma’s remarks on Thursday came as the UK reported 33,470 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily increase[Read More…]
Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written a letter to the Uttar Pradesh government regarding the suspension of Dr. Kafeel Khan. Khan was suspended from the BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, after being accused in the death of 60 children, allegedly due to oxygen shortage in August[Read More…]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) ‘Hunar Haat’, the Centre’s flagship initiative to help the artisans to showcase their products, opened in Delhi amid Covid concerns Minorrity Affairs, opend Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurated the Hunar Haat to encaurage the artists. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju was also present[Read More…]
Paris, Nov 13 (IANS) Two weeks into its second nationwide lockdown, France has witnessed a slowdown in the number of new Covid-19 cases and a “fragile” downward trend of the viral circulation, official data revealed. But “it would be irresponsible to lift or relax the lockdown now”, Xinhua news agency[Read More…]
Dublin, Nov 13 (IANS) Stuart Barnes has been appointed as the assistant head coach and national bowling lead of Ireland men’s cricket team. Cricket Ireland has awarded an initial three-year contract to Barnes which will see him in the position until the end of the current World Cup cycle. He[Read More…]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Google Cloud has announced that its serverless Database Migration Service (DMS) is available in Preview, that will make it easy for enterprise customers to move production databases to the cloud. It would enable customers to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL[Read More…]
Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) Well-known Urdu poet Munawwar Rana has said that leaders like AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi have divided and destroyed Muslims. Equating Owaisi with Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, he said that the community will not allow another Jinnah to flourish in India. Munawwar Rana, 67, was reacting[Read More…]
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned that a record surge in new Covid-19 cases across the country could hinder the recent economic recovery. “We do see the economy continuing on a solid path of recovery, but the main risk we see to that is[Read More…]
Seoul, Nov 13 (IANS) The upcoming ASEAN+3 leaders’ meeting will offer a strategic guidance for regional cooperation in the Covid-19 pandemic era, a deputy chief of an international organization has said. The meeting, which will involve China, Japan, South Korea and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations[Read More…]
Srinagar, Nov 13 (IANS) Moderate to heavy snowfall is expected in Jammu and Kashmir in the next few days as per the local weather office. An advisory issued by the local weather office said, “Scattered to fairly widespread precipitation is very likely to occur over J&K and Ladakh between November[Read More…]
BY AHANA BHATTACHARYA Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) Diwali celebrations this year will be a low-key affair for most Bollywood celebrities owing to the ongoing pandemic. For some, the pandemic has barred them from reuniting with their families in their hometowns. For others, Diwali will be more of a low-key homely[Read More…]
Manila, Nov 13 (IANS) The death toll from typhoon Vamco that slammed the Philippines’ main island of Luzon has increased to seven, a government disaster management agency said. In its latest update on Thursday, the Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said besides the victims, four people were also reported missing,[Read More…]
