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Mumbai: A cricketer-cum-coach from Bhandup was attacked with choppers near a petrol pump shortly before midnight, police said here on Friday. Rakesh Panvar was with his girlfriend when three unknown persons pounced on them near Mahavir Petrol Pump in north-east Mumbai. According to a police official, bleeding profusely and seriously injured Panvar was rushed to […]

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday said he will have five deputy chief ministers. He announced this while addressing newly-elected legislators of the YSR Congress Party on Friday, a day before cabinet expansion. Jagan Reddy, who took oath as the Chief Minister on May 30, will have deputy chief ministers […]

Kolkata: In an indication that she would skip the June 15 NITI Aayog meeting, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying it was “fruitless” for her to attend the deliberations as the body has no financial powers and the power to support state plans. In a letter to Modi […]

Lucknow: Nineteen persons were killed and 48 others injured due to dust storms and lightning in various parts of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Friday. A state Relief commissioner said: “While six persons were killed in Mainpuri, three persons each died in Etah and Kasganj and one each in Moradabad, Badaun, Pilibhit, Mathura, Kannauj, […]

London: Consuming a ketogenic diet — high in fat but low in protein and carbohydrates — may increase the risk of developing Type-2 diabetes while helping in weight loss, a new study has claimed, raising questions whether the diet is healthy. The study conducted on mice showed that animals fed on ketogenic diets appear metabolically […]

Colombo: SriLankan Airlines, the flag carrier of the island nation, has been named the ‘World’s Most Punctual Airline’ for the second consecutive time with over 90 per cent of its flights in May being “on time”, authorities said here Friday. SriLankan Airlines said in a statement that it had achieved this status for the second […]

Dubai: As many as 12 Indians were among the 17 people who were killed when a tourist bus from Oman rammed into a signboard in Dubai, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed today. Nine others, including the bus driver, have been severely injured and are being treated in the city’s Rashid Hospital. The External Affairs […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned former ICICI bank Managing Director and CEO Chanda Kochhar on June 10 in connection with the Rs 1,875 crore Videocon loan case, a official said. The senior ED official told IANS that Kochhar has been summoned to appear before the agency’s Jamnagar office in central Delhi […]

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Friday met UPA Chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi to seek her party’s cooperation in the upcoming session of Parliament, which will commence from June 17. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, along with the Minister of State in his Ministry – Arjun Ram Meghwal, and Minister […]

New Delhi: Paytm Payments Bank has received a target of 501.16 crore digital transactions for the financial year 2019-20 from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), higher than the targets set for major banks including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Punjab National Bank. In a statement, Paytm Payments Bank said it is only […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly pulled a massive facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of roughly 100,000 people from the Internet, however traces of the data trove remain online, the media reported. Microsoft released MS-Celeb-1M, a dataset of roughly 10 million photos from 100,000 individuals collected from the Internet in […]

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing controversy over M.S. Dhoni sporting an Army insignia during the ongoing World Cup, it has come to fore that the Pakistan team wanted to celebrate India’s wickets ‘differently’ when the two teams meet in Manchester on June 16. Saj Sadiq, editor of Pakistan site ‘Pak Passion’, on Friday tweeted that […]

Bhubaneswar: For the mandarins in the State Higher Education Department, the nagging fact to fore in the 2019 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG) (NEET-UG) is when the number of students appearing for the coveted exam from Odisha were almost static (only 0.23 per cent rise), almost all the neighbouring States have posted a handsome growth of  […]

London: Actor Rajkummar Rao, who considers himself one of the biggest fans of Shah Rukh Khan, recreated the superstar’s iconic scene from his hit 1995 film “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”, with Patralekhaa. Rajkummar on Friday took to Instagram and shared a video in which he along with his lady love and actress Patralekhaa are seen […]

New York: In order to create viral YouTube ads, brands should arouse strong emotion, keep ads to a moderate length of 1-1.5 minutes and use authentic characters, a study has revealed. YouTube is a low-cost and flexible platform for sharing ads with a wide viewership. According to the study published in the Journal of Marketing, […]