News from India

Los Angeles: John Cena is the latest addition to the ensemble cast of upcoming ninth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise and the WWE wrestler-turned-actor said coming on board the project is a great opportunity. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cena said he is happy that he will be getting a chance to […]

Muzaffarpur/Patna: Shahbano’s tears refuse to stop. Three days ago, the Baruraj village resident admitted her eight-year-old daughter Farida at Muzaffarpur’s Shri Krishna Memorial College Hospital (SKMCH) with high fever. Her world came crashing down on Tuesday, when the doctors declared her daughter dead. Farida’s death hasn’t just broken her own family. It has also made […]

London: The UK High Court Tuesday began hearing fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi’s appeal against a lower court’s order to deny him bail as he fights his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case. Justice Ingrid Simler at the Royal Courts of […]

Mumbai: Authorities at the Arthur Road jail here have kept ‘barrack no. 12’ ready if fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi is extradited from the UK in connection with the USD 2 billion PNB fraud and money laundering case, a Home department official said Tuesday. The prisons department last week shared information with the state Home […]

Chandigarh: Eighty-eight years after freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in the Lahore conspiracy case at Lahore on March 23, 1931, efforts are on across the border to prove that the martyrs did not get a fair trial. The Lahore police last week submitted in a Pakistan trial court the first information […]

Bhubaneswar: With a new coach at the helm in Graham Reid, the Indian men’s hockey team has been working on a new tactic to put pressure on the opposition — create chances and score as many goals as possible early on. In the ongoing FIH Series Finals here, world no. 5 India have been scoring […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel here for over 10 hours in connection with a money laundering probe into the losses suffered by Air India under the alleged multi-crore aviation scam. This was Patel’s second appearance before the agency in connection with the case. The Nationalist […]

Itanagar: The Indian Army and the local Arunachal Scouts are ready to move to ground zero with aid and assistances to establish the status of the 13 occupants of the Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3, an official said on Tuesday. The IAF said on Tuesday that […]

Kollywood actress, Shalu Shamu, has made some shocking revelations during an Instagram conversation with her followers on casting couch she faced. Shalu has claimed that the director of an upcoming Vijay Deverakonda film asked her to sleep with him to get a role in the flick. However, the actress didn’t mention the name of the director. On […]

New Delhi: The first meeting of the Union council of ministers after allocation of portfolios will be held on Wednesday and is likely to discuss the agenda of the government both in the short and long term. The meeting is being held a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with all central government secretaries. […]

New Delhi: Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot was appointed on Tuesday the Leader of the Rajya Sabha, a position occupied in the previous Narendra Modi-led government by senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley who has had health issues and is currently recovering, official sources said. Gehlot, the social justice and empowerment minister, is an experienced parliamentarian and […]

Srinagar: One militant was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town on Wednesday. Police said security forces, after specific inputs about presence of militants, started a cordon and search operation yesterday afternoon in Wadoora Payeen village of Sopore town. “Hiding militants fired as the cordon around them was tightened. […]

New Delhi: Young Rishabh Pant is set to go to England as cover for the injured Shikhar Dhawan even though the latter will continue to stay with the team and undergo treatment for his injury. Speaking to IANS, sources in the know of developments said that Pant has already been told that he needs to […]

New Delhi: The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) chaired by Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha on Tuesday reviewed the preparedness for cyclone “Vayu”, which is likely to hit Gujarat on Thursday. The meeting followed Indian Meteorological Department’s (IMD) prediction that cyclone Vayu is likely to hit the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Mahuva around Veraval and […]

New Delhi: Union Minister for Human Resources and Development (HRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to fill the vacancies to increase quality and efficiency. Stressing that it is government’s duty to provide quality education to all the students, he directed the officials from Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Navodaya Vidyalaya […]