New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Rising wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan was on Monday named captain of the 13-member Board President’s XI squad for the two List-A warm-up fixtures against England Lions in Thiruvananthapuram. The BCCI selectors…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The government on Monday extended the service of Finance Secretary Ajay Narayan Jha by a month till February-end. He was to retire on January 31. Post superannuation, the 1982 batch…
Melbourne, Jan 14 (IANS) Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman on Monday defeated Germany’s Rudolf Molleker 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 to move to the second round of the Australian Open. The 18th-seed Schwartzman played well to pass the…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Monday. According to AIIMS authorities, Prasad, 64, arrived at AIIMS around…
Melbourne, Jan 14 (IANS) Andy Murray fought hard for more than four hours on Monday at round 1 of the Australian Open but lost to Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (4),…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Poets, elocutionists and theatre personalities on Monday held a protest meeting to strongly condemn the vandalism at poet Srijato’s programme venue at Assam’s Silchar and said it is time for the…
Riyadh, Jan 14 (IANS) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday told the Saudi King and Crown Prince that the murderers of Jamal Khashoggi must “be held accountable”, more than three months after the…
Mumbai, Jan 14 (IANS) Writers, activists and journalists in Pakistan on Monday held a nationwide protest against a ban on Indian filmmaker Nandita Das’ “Manto”, based on the life of the late Urdu writer Saadat…
Julia Bliss Awarded With WOW Awards For India’s One Of Best Female DJ (Photo:SocialNews.XYZ) When you look at life in all its splendor despite coming up the hard way, hone your skills and emerge a…
Mumbai, Jan 14 (IANS) Actress Karishma Kotak, who will next be seen in the film “Bedhab”, says she does not want to limit herself in one genre in the entertainment industry. Karishma interacted with the…
Kolkata: Actors Soumitra Chatterjee being felecitated in presence of veteran actress Madhabi Mukherjee, film critic Samik Bandyopadhyay, film director Atanu Ghosh, and actress Sohini Sengupta during a programme in Kolkata on Jan 14, 20190 (Photo:…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Devendra Swarup, an RSS ideologue who started his career in journalism under later Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and became Editor of RSS mouthpiece ‘Panchjanya’, died here on Monday. Swarup…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Delhi Police on Monday arrested a juvenile for stabbing his father to death over a financial issue. The police said the incident occurred on Sunday around 11.15 p.m in east…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday became the first recipient of the prestigious Philip Kotler Presidential award. “The award focuses on the triple bottom-line of ‘People, Profit and Planet’ which…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 14 (IANS) The NHRC on Monday asked the Odisha government to submit a report over a Class 8 student delivering a baby girl in a state-run tribal residential school in Kandhamal district. Taking…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Monday announced that it would roll out digital features for Kumbh Mela visitors such as virtual reality, online streaming of events and better internet connectivity….
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Three years after former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested for alleged sedition, the Delhi Police on Monday filed a charge-sheet…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) On her two-day visit to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday reviewed the operational preparedness of the outlying units stationed at the Union Territory’s capital Port…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Calling Narendra Modi and Amit Shah the “biggest threat to the country”, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said if the BJP came to power again in 2019, it will…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The fast-rising number of desalination plants worldwide — now almost 16,000, with capacity concentrated in the Middle East and North Africa — quench a growing thirst for freshwater but create…