After a long time, production house PVP is making real profits from the box office and also from a film. Thanks to Nagarjuna who agreed to play a paraplegic in Oopiri and thus making the…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) India and the United States have agreed, in principle, to conclude a ‘Logistic Exchange Memorandum of Agreement’ on mutual military logistic support. It, however, does not mean that troops of…
Kathmandu, April 12 (IANS) At least 24 people were killed and 22 others injured on Tuesday when the passenger bus they were travelling in plunged some 300 metres down a steep hillside in eastern Nepal’s…
Hyderabad, April 12 (IANS) Short news service mobile application, Way2 has reached 500 million views per month in a short span of three months of its launch. The achievement is a validation of the unique…
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the Deonar dumping ground here and took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the government’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ programme. “Talking about ‘Swachh…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court will examine if the Reserve Bank of India and the Centre could take shelter behind the confidentiality clause in the RBI Act for holding back…
Beijing, April 12 (IANS) Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Tuesday protested against Kenya deporting 37 Taiwanese citizens to China. It was the second such incident in less than a week after Nairobi dispatched eight Taiwanese nationals…
Karachi, April 12 (IANS) An autorickshaw driver here is on cloud nine after legendary Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar complimented him for singing a Bade Ghulam Ali Khan ‘thumri’ with sheer purity. As the ‘thumri’ sung…
Imphal, April 12 (IANS) An indefinite road blockade imposed by a Muslim group here has been lifted following an assurance by the state government to look into their demands, the ‘joint action committee’ of Muslim…
Madrid, April 12 (IANS) Former Real Madrid defender Pedro de Felipe died here aged 71, the Spanish football club announced on Tuesday. De Felipe, who was born in Madrid in 1944, won the European Cup…
Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) Coal India board approved the giving up of performance incentive for supply of higher grades coal to consumers having fuel supply agreement with the miner to improve lifting of coal, the…
New York, April 12 (IANS) A team of scientists has discovered six new proteins that may help reveal secrets of how humans age — potentially unlocking new insights into diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and other…
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) Worldwide personal computer (PC) shipments totalled 64.8 million units in the first quarter of 2016 — a 9.6 percent decline from the first quarter of 2015, a report from global research…
New York, April 12 (IANS) Infants’ brains can understand what they are observing and thus can copy other people’s action, finds a new study providing the first evidence that directly links neural responses from the…
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) Long locks, a stubble, chiselled abs and tattoos — that’s the look Shahid Kapoor is seen donning in the character poster of “Udta Punjab”, a neo-noir drama thriller directed by Abhishek…
By Charu Bahri By choice or compulsion, Indians across age groups and income categories are falling short in meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended daily intake of five servings of fruit and vegetable, a…
Beijing, April 12 (IANS) Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang has urged local governments to push forward supply-side structural reform to help stabilise economic growth. Local authorities should continue to cut red tape, implement tax breaks,…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, April 12 (IANS) Despite the lure of a mid-day meal, low attendance in Tripura’s government schools is a “cause of concern” while enrollment is rising in private schools without the facility,…
Kiev, April 12 (IANS) Ukraine’s parliament is set to try to vote in a replacement for Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk amid a growing sense of political crisis. On Sunday, Yatsenyuk announced that he would resign…