Bangkok, Oct 14 (IANS) Foreign ministers and senior officials of the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Friday began their bi-annual meet in Bangkok with an agenda centred on…
Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) Comedian Kiku Sharda says he wants to stay away from sex comedies. “That’s not the kind of comedy that I am comfortable with. I don’t endorse sex comedies. Even in TV…
Kathmandu, Oct 14 (IANS) India has beefed up security along its open border with Nepal at Birgunj city following tensions at the India-Pakistan border. Indian security personnel have tightened security checks and increased surveillance at…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 14 (IANS) Kerala Industry Minister E.P. Jayarajan, charged with appointing his relatives to government jobs, resigned on Friday. The resignation of Jayarajan, of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, had been demanded by both…
Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) Industrialist Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications has signed a “non-binding term sheet” with Brookfield Infrastructure Group, through which the latter would acquire all the tower assets of RCOM for an upfront cash…
Los Angeles, Oct 14 (IANS) The “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” spinoff will be a five-film franchise, J.K. Rowling revealed at a Warner Bros fan event here. “We always knew that it was…
Rio de Janeiro, Oct 14 (IANS) Eight-time Brazilian Serie A champions Santos have signed Colombian forward Vladimir Hernandez on a four-year deal, the club’s president has said. The 27-year-old has impressed Santos with his form…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Microsoft on Friday announced new Cloud service “Dynamics 365” that will help enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India transform their enterprises with intelligent applications. Powered by advanced…
Bengaluru, Oct 14 (IANS) Indias star forward SV Sunil and midfielder Manpreet Singh, nursing injuries, were on Friday ruled out of the Asian Champions Trophy, starting on October 20 in Kuantan, Malaysia. Sunil will now…
New York, Oct 14 (IANS) The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has declared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a threat to press freedoms. “Donald Trump, through his words and actions as a candidate for president…
Jammu, Oct 14 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale was recorded in Bhaderwah town of Jammu on Friday, authorities said. No damage to life or property was reported. “A light intensity quake…
Bengaluru, Oct 14 (IANS) Cloud and virtualisation software services provider VMware in association with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Friday announced a new hybrid Cloud service that will give customers full software-defined data centre (SDDC)…
Hong Kong, Oct 14 (IANS) Addressing the whitewashing controversy over the casting of Tilda Swinton in Marvel’s “Doctor Strange”, the film’s director Scott Derrickson says he chose the actor to avoid being deemed racist. He…
Srinagar, Oct 14 (IANS) India and Pakistan must talk and solve the Kashmir issue to end terrorism in the region, former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said, speaking for the first time since the ongoing unrest…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday rejected National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s charge of “partisan politics” over the move to set up an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Jammu…
Las Vegas, Oct 14 (IANS) US singer Bob Dylan, who has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, barely spoke to the audience on Thursday night about the coveted prize during his first public performance…
Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd (RIIL) has reported a 19.33 per cent fall in net profit for the second quarter (Q2) of 2016-17. The company’s net profit stood at Rs 3.38 crore…
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is ahead of Republican rival Donald Trump by 7 percentage points in the latest Fox News national poll. Forty-five per cent of likely voters surveyed by…
Ranchi, Oct 14 (IANS) The JMM on Friday demanded an apology from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board General Secretary for saying that JMM President Shibu Soren had “59 wives”. “(Maulana Wali) Rehmani’s remark…