San Francisco, Oct 18 (IANS) The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced nine recipients of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in recognition of their important achievements in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics. The Foundation…
Paris, Oct 17 (IANS) France superstar football player Kylian Mbapp? returned to visit his childhood club here on Wednesday for the first time since he won the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The 19-year-old forward, who…
Sabarimala/Nilackal (Kerala), Oct 17 (IANS) Protesters opposed to the entry of women in the 10-50 age group to the Sabarimala temple clashed with police and heckled women journalists as the pilgrimage season opened on Wednesday,…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) From his days of being an iconic editor to the alleged sexual predator — the fall of M.J. Akbar has been sudden and steep. Caught as he was in the…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar with “immediate effect”. An official communiqu? from the President’s office said, “The…
Lucknow, Oct 17 (IANS) Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh on Wednesday filed a police complaint against senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan alleging Khan threatened him and his family with physical harm. Khan also allegedly…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Filmmaker Vikas Bahl has moved the Bombay High Court with a Rs 10-crore defamation suit against his former Phantom Films partners Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane amid the #MeToo furore. Bahl,…
Bengaluru, Oct 17 (IANS) The Gujarat government has invited Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala and Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to attend the unveiling of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Statute of Unity at Sadhu Bet in the northwest…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) A teenage boy, who on Wednesday had gone out along with his friends, died after he drowned into Delhi Development Authority’s Sanjay Van lake in south Delhi, police said. The…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Housing prices in Delhi have fallen marginally for the first time over the last eight years even as all-India house prices went up by an average of 5.3 per cent in…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Reliance Industries Limited said on Wednesday that it will buy 66 per cent stake in Den Networks Limited and 51.3 per cent stake in Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited. According to…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Reliance Industries (RIL) on Wednesday reported a 17.3 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 9,516 crore for the second quarter ending September on the back of robust performance in…
Hyderabad, Oct 17 (IANS) Engineering services company Cyient on Wednesday announced that its net profit has registered 54 per cent sequential growth during the second quarter ended September. The Hyderabad-headquartered company posted a net profit…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday rejected media reports alleging an Indian hand in a plot to assassinate him and a former Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka during a…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reaffirmed that a successor to YES BANK’s MD and CEO Rana Kapoor should be appointed by February 1, 2019. The private lender had earlier…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Jack Black’s ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ will release in India on October 26. Sony Pictures India is bringing the film to the country. The sequel to R.L. Stine’s 2015 hit…
Monaco (France), Oct 17 (IANS) AS Monaco on Wednesday presented former France football star Thierry Henry as its new coach. The former striker, 41, would lead the Ligue 1 team for three seasons after Leonardo…