By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Mersal”; Language: Tamil; Director: Atlee; Cast: Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen, Kajal Aggarwal, Sathyaraj; Rating:***(3 stars) Vijay fans must be very happy. There are three Vijays in his new…
By Saurabh Katkurwar Ayodhya, Oct 22 (IANS) Politics over the Babri dispute, including the hate campaign by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has only complicated a possible amicable solution, contends Mahant Satyendra Das of the…
Aden, Oct 22 (IANS/WAM) Yemeni President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi met with Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN Secretary-General’s envoy to the war-torn country to discuss ways to revive solutions for peace. During the meeting…
Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) NASA’s slow progress in improving its IT governance over the past four years could put the agency at risk of experiencing security breaches, warns an audit report. Information Technology (IT) plays…
By Rohit Vaid Mumbai, Oct 22 (IANS) The ongoing quarterly results season, along with cues from global markets and direction of foreign funds, are expected to set the tone for the key Indian equity indices,…
Los Angeles, Oct 22 (IANS) Actress Katherine Kendall, who publicly accused producer Harvey Weinstein of harassing her in his apartment in 1993, says she took time to speak out in public about the same as…
Srinagar, Oct 22 (IANS) A group of militants ransacked the house of a police officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, authorities said on Sunday. Five masked militants ransacked the house of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat,…
By Tarun Basu Aizawl, Oct 22 (IANS) There is something about India’s Northeast that makes it markedly different from the rest of India, and it’s not just the Mongoloid features of its people. At the…
Mumbai, Oct 22 (IANS) Actor Manoj Bajpayee, whose next big screen outing is “Rukh”, says the relationship between a father and his son is the backbone of the movie. Manoj also held a special screening…
Tokyo, Oct 22 (IANS) A powerful typhoon was approaching the main island of Japan on Sunday where it has brought heavy rainfall and the risk of landslides on a day when the country is voting…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday left for Dhaka on a two-day visit where she will participate in the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Committee meeting. “External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj…
Johannesburg, Oct 22 (IANS) Allowing smartphones in class may affect the students’ ability to concentrate, eventually hampering their academic performance, warns a new research. Instead of using their phones to follow the lectures, students use…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Highly endangered chimpanzees, whale sharks, steppe eagles and vultures need the highest level of protection globally. Likewise, both India and Indonesia should tighten regulations on shark fishing,…
Los Angeles, Oct 22 (IANS) Actor Alec Baldwin says having young children makes him think more and more about death. Baldwin, 59, who has daughter Ireland, 21, with former wife Kim Basinger, and children Carmen,…
Mumbai, Oct 22 (IANS) Actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt will co-author a book about her battle with alcohol. It will come out early next year. “I would like to emphasise that it is not an autobiography. At…
యంగ్ రెబల్స్టార్ ప్రభాస్….ఆరడుగుల హైట్, హైట్కు తగ్గ పర్సనాలిటీ, పర్సనాలిటీకి తగ్గ వాయిస్, అందరినీ ప్రేమగా డార్లింగ్ అని పిలుస్తూ, అందరికీ దగ్గరైన టాలీవుడ్ డార్లింగ్. రెబల్స్టార్ కృష్ణంరాజు నటవారసుడుగా ‘ఈశ్వర్’ చిత్రంతో హీరోగా పరిచయమై అనతికాలంలోనే తన నటనతో అందరి మన్ననలు పొందారు. ‘రాఘవేంద్ర’, ‘వర్షం’, ‘అడవిరాముడు’,…
(Editors: This is part of a series to mark a year of the demonetisation announced on November 8, 2016). By Amulya Ganguli Much of the efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to explain…
San Francisco, Oct 22 (IANS) Giving its over one billion users more power to connect, WhatsApp has confirmed group voice calls in its latest beta version of Android. According to WaBetaInfo, a popular website that…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The city witnessed a misty Sunday morning with minimum temperature recorded at 18 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be mainly clear with mist…
New York, Oct 22 (IANS) Smoking and having oral sex with multiple partners may put men at increased risk of developing a type of head and neck cancer that is triggered by exposure to the…