By Saket Suman Book: The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and his India; Author: Shashi Tharoor; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 504; Price: Rs 799 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revels in being in the…
By Amit Kapoor The 2019 general election is now just months away. This means that the time for any significant change on the ground has passed as the government will soon get into campaign mode….
Jakarta, Oct 30 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday continued the search to locate the Lion Air plane that crashed in the Java Sea the previous day with 189 people on board, while rescue teams have…
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) From “Lagaan” to “Rang De Basanti”, from “Taare Zameen Par” to “PK”, Dangal” and now “Thugs Of Hindostan” — actor Aamir Khan, who has experimented with genres and looks galore in…
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, who has taken to exercising indoors to battle the rising levels of air pollution, says health and fitness is of utmost importance to her and her family….
Jammu, Oct 30 (IANS) One man was killed in a landslide that shut down a stretch of the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district on Tuesday, police said. The operator of a JCB machine was killed…
Dhaka, Oct 30 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Tuesday doubled the jail term of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia from five years to 10 in an orphanage graft case following an appeal…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) Want to eat like the Bakaasura (the demon in the Mahabharatha epic)? A meal consisting of 63 dishes?Welcome to Kokkarakko, a new restaurant in Chennai. And no prizes…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Basic surveys are urgently needed across northeastern Australia to determine important areas for breeding and non-breeding cranes, including the sarus crane, especially given efforts to intensify development…
Mumbai: Celebrity interior designer and producer Gauri Khan seen at Mumbai’s Bandra on Oct 29, 2018. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai: Celebrity interior designer and producer Gauri Khan seen at Mumbai’s Bandra on Oct 29, 2018. (Photo:…
London, Oct 30 (IANS) Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has called upon US President Donald Trump to “help reveal the truth” about the killing. “I am deeply grateful for…
Los Angeles, Oct 30 (IANS) “Slumdog Millionaire” actor Dev Patel is set to make his directorial debut with revenge thriller titled “Monkey Man”. Patel will also act in the movie, which is being presented to…
Los Angeles, Oct 30 (IANS) Singer Pharrell Williams has warned US President Donald Trump against playing his “Happy” song, after it was used at a rally just hours after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Williams’ attorney…
Jr NTR’s Aravinda Sametha has completed its full run in the USA and the movie has missed the break-even mark by a small margin. A box-office tracker reported that the movie was sold for 11.2…
Washington, Oct 30 (IANS) NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe — enroute to the Sun to unravel its mysteries — has become the closest spacecraft to it. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million…
Shillong, Oct 30 (IANS) A low intensity blast using improvised explosive device (IED) took place in the East Garo Hills district headquarters in Meghalaya late on Monday, police said on Tuesday. However, no one was…
Washington, Oct 30 (IANS) US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert is under consideration to be the next US Ambassador to the UN, according to a senior Republican official. Nauert met President Donald Trump on Monday,…
Canberra, Oct 30 (IANS) A dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud is slowly dying from gradual loss of energy to form stars, said a study by Australian astronomers published on…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) It was a misty morning in the national capital on Tuesday with minimum temperature touching 16.5 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average. “There was mist in the morning…
Beijing, Oct 30 (IANS) The Chinese government has legalised the use of endangered tiger and rhino products for “medical” purposes, a move according to wildlife activists will be a setback to efforts to protect the…