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St. John’s (Antigua):  India will begin its ICC World Test Championship campaign with the two-Test series to be played in the West Indies in late August. The two Tests will be played at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua (August 22-26) and at Sabina Park in Jamaica (August 30-September 3). Before that, both the […]

Ahmedabad: Cyclone Vayu will not make landfall on the Gujarat coast on Thursday as it was expected, and will pass by the Saurashtra region later in the day, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. IMD scientist Manorama Mohanty told the media here: “Cyclone Vayu will not hit Gujarat. It will pass nearby from Veraval, Porbander […]

Kendrapara: The Nikirai Police seized body of a married woman buried by her -in-laws in the village crematorium at Bandhasahi in the district on Wednesday and detained the husband of the deceased based on the allegations of murder by her family members. According to sources, Parvati Mallick had tied the knot with one Chitrasen Mallick […]

Lucknow: Seventeen persons have died in separate incidents of dust storms, lightning and rain in various parts of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours. According to reports, four persons died in Siddharthanagar, three in Deoria, three in Basti, two in Ballia and one each in Azamgarh, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Lakhimpur and Pilibhit. In Siddharthanagar, a […]

New York: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Indian Prime Minister as a “new kind of leader for the world’s most populous democracy”, and quoted Narendra Modi’s election slogan in Hindi, “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (“Modi makes it possible”), at a summit here. Pompeo made the remarks during his keynote address to the […]

Menlo Park (California):  Grappling with the best and the worst of humanity, a quarterly transparency report from next year and content regulations are some of the steps listed by Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg to deal with major content concerns and privacy issues. Committed to weed out the “bad” content, Sheryl Sandberg said […]

Sydney: The unhealthy habits of modern-day living with a diet high in calories may cause brain health to deteriorate faster, according to an Australian study published on Thursday. Compared to 50 years ago, people currently consume an average of around 650 extra kilocalories each day, which is equivalent to a fast-food meal of a burger, […]

Melbourne:  Superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be the chief guest at the 10th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. Helmed by the government of the state of Victoria, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne will be taking place between August 8-17. This year the festival is set to celebrate the central theme of ‘courage’, which is […]

Agra: Sunny Yadav, the nephew of slain Uttar Pradesh Bar Council president Darwesh Yadav has named Manish Sharma, his wife Vandana and another lawyer Vineet Gulecha as the accused in the murder of the first woman chief of the council, who was shot dead in a lawyers chamber. Manish Sharma, a lawyer, who fired three […]

Mumbai:  A special screening of “Bharat” was hosted for the families who experienced the events of 1947 and the partition, says superstar Salman Khan. Salman shared a photograph of himself on Twitter along with a couple of senior citizens aged between 75-80 years-old and their family members. He captioned it: “Special screening of ‘Bharat’ for […]

New Delhi: Tennis star Sania Mirza is fed up of the “cringeworthy” advertisements which are hyping the World Cup encounter between India and Pakistan to be played in Manchester on Sunday. The TV channels in both the countries have been putting out promotional advertisements for the much-anticipated, high-octane encounter between the arch rivals. India’s Star […]

Mumbai: Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened lower. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 39,756.81 points on Wednesday, opened lower at 39,679.35 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 39,651.30 points, down by 105.51 points, or 0.27 per cent. At […]

Baranovichi: India’s junior women’s hockey team went down 1-4 to the Belarus senior women’s team in the third match of the ongoing series. Belarus lead the series 2-1. Despite the scoreline, India’s juniors held Belarus for large periods of the match played on Wednesday, and tested their defence constantly. Belarus’ team kicked off proceedings at […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Chief minister, Naveen Patnaik’s request to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at their recent meeting in New Delhi that states hit by major calamities be declared special focus states and granted benefits of special category status for a specific period has evoked varied reactions. While state BJP has described it as a […]

Mumbai: A childhood photograph of actor Hrithik Roshan, Alia Bhatt and Masaba Gupta at a party together has surfaced on social media which has left their fans excited. The image was shared by producer Anu Ranjan on Instagram. The caption reads: “These are the most adorable ones, without realising.” Alia’s sister Shaheen Bhatt is also […]