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Mumbai: Actor Janhvi Kapoor, who will next be seen in “RoohiAfza”, is a tad superstitious in talking about her upcoming films. At the first edition of the Grazia Millennial Awards, here on Wednesday, Janhvi said, “The shooting of the film has been going on really well. Whether you call me superstitious or old-fashioned, I feel […]

Shimla: The death toll due to a road accident in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district has increased to 44, officials said on Friday. A total of 73 passengers were on board when an overloaded private mini bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge near Banjar, some 50 km from Kullu town, on […]

Ranchi: Iconic cartoon characters Motu and Patlu also performed yoga with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on the occasion of the fifth International Yoga Day. The characters were in the middle of the Prabhat Tara ground where Modi participated in a massive yoga event comprising 30,000 people. “The Motu and Patlu characters were present in […]

New Delhi: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troops on the occassion of International Yoga Day on Friday performed yoga in some of the most difficult terrains in the country. The ITBP troops of the ATS Lohitpur, where the sun rises first in this eastern most tip of Arunachal Pradesh, commemorated this day before the break of […]

United Nations: Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said that yoga can help the world in these troubled times by inspiring the adoption of a sustainable lifestyle to fight climate change and by promoting tolerance and peace. Addressing the fifth International Yoga Day celebration here on Thursday, she said: “The essence of yoga is balance […]

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday paid tributes to five of the 13 air-warriors, who lost their lives in the AN-32 crash in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3. Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa was also present at the ceremony held at the Palam Technical area here. On Thursday, Air Marshal R.D. Mathur, Air […]

Mumbai: The rupee Friday fell 28 paise to trade at 69.72 against the US dollar in early trade following foreign fund outflows and rising crude prices after Iran said it had shot down a US military drone. Subdued sentiments in domestic equity markets also influenced the trading pattern in the currency market, forex traders said. […]

New Delhi: A major fire broke out at a furniture market near Kalindi Kunj station early Friday morning, prompting authorities to stop metro services, officials said. The blaze, which was reported at 5.55 am, has been doused with help of 17 fire tenders, Chief Fire Officer Atul Garg said, adding that no one has been […]

Union Public Service Commission has released a recruitment notification for the positions of Assistant Director and Professors. Interested and eligible candidates can apply for the positions before the deadline. The last date to apply for the positions is June 27, 2019. UPSC Recruitment 2019 Vacancy Detail Post and Vacancies Assistant Director: 05 Professor (Gastro Medicine): […]

IBPS RRB Recruitment Notification 2019: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS, RRB) has invited applications from interested and eligible candidates for the positions of Officers (Scale-I, II & III) and Office Assistant (Multipurpose). Bank job aspirants can apply for the positions before the deadline. The last date to apply for the positions is July […]

Beijing: Yoga represents aspirations of the people from India and China that it is beneficial to work together in spirit of “friendship and cooperation”, Indian envoy Vikram Misri said Friday as he along with a large number of Chinese yoga enthusiasts here marked the fifth International Yoga Day. Hundreds of thousands of yoga enthusiasts across […]

New Delhi: The students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), have shown excellent results in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2019 conducted by IIT Roorkee. A data analysis of JEE (Advanced) result shows that out of 6094 KV students who appeared in JEE (Advanced) this year, 1019 […]

New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Friday recommended making yoga part of school curriculum and said doing so is necessary in the wake of changing lifestyles and growing incidence of non-communicable diseases. Naidu was speaking at an event to mark the International Day of Yoga organised by the Ministry of Ayush and Brahma Kumaris […]

Muzaffarnagar: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from outside her house in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district and gang-raped by four men, police said Friday. The incident happened on Thursday and the girl was later found with her hands tied and face covered with clothes from a vacant house in Baghra village, which is under Titawi […]

New Delhi: Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal recently held a high level review meeting with senior railway officials and all General Managers of Zonal Railways/Production Units and Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) through Video Conferencing in Rail Bhawan. During the meeting, Goyal called upon the Zonal Railway officials to work as a […]