Barcelona, Oct 2 (IANS) A day after a referendum on independence for Catalonia that was marred by clashes between supporters and police officers, the Spanish regions leaders were meeting on Monday to determine how to…
Chennai, Oct 2 (IANS) Popular Telugu actor Vishnu Manchu, known for being part of films such as “Dhee” and “Rowdy”, is making inroads into Tamil filmdom with upcoming bilingual political thriller “Kural 388”. The film…
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Actor Siddharth, mostly known for featuring in Telugu and Tamil films, on Monday announced his next Hindi movie titled “The House Next Door”. “My next Hindi film is ready. Here we…
San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) With the wait for new Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy Note 8 now over, Google is ready to unveil Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones, a smart speaker and…
Beijing, Oct 2 (IANS) Spanish woman tennis player Garbi?e Muguruza withdrew from her China Open first match against Czech Barbora Strykova on Monday due to physical issues. The World No.1 was one set behind 1-6…
Srinagar, Oct 2 (IANS) Two militants were killed on Monday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district as the army foiled an infiltration bid, a defence official said. “Two terrorists…
Varanasi, Oct 2 (IANS) BHU Vice Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi, who is being blamed for last month’s violence and baton-charge on protesting girl students in the campus, has gone on leave, citing personal reasons. BHU…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Three-film-old actress Bhumi Pednekar, who played an overweight married woman in her debut movie “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”, says she has been able to break the stereotype in Bollywood about…
Chennai, Oct 2 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Minister S.P. Velumani was on Monday admitted to Apollo Hospital here following stomach pain, said hospital sources, adding that his condition was now stable. Sources close to the Minister…
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday blamed ‘ghulami’ (foreign rule) for social evils like child marriage, dowry and purdah in India. Without directly naming Muslim rule, Modi, a…
Chennai, Oct 2 (IANS) Ministers in the Tamil Nadu government formally opened Mettur dam, the lifeline of the agrarian belt, for irrigation on Monday — nearly four months after its customary opening. Electricity Minister P….
Stockholm, Oct 2 (IANS) Three American scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for unravelling secrets of how the body’s internal clock or circadian rhythm works — a discovery that will…
Las Vegas, Oct 2 (IANS) Country singer Jason Aldean, who was performing near the end of the Route 91 Harvest Festival when a mass shooting happened, says it was beyond horrific. On Monday, Aldean took…
London, Oct 2 (IANS) Scientists have identified a new drug which has the potential to halt bone loss caused by osteoarthritis and tackle underlying bone structure changes in diseased joints. The findings showed that the…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has summoned Chief Secretary M.M. Kutty over his absence from the event held to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri…
Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) A woman allegedly murdered her husband in West Bengal’s Jhargram district after he came to know about her extra marital affair, police said on Monday. “Madan Paik, a resident of Jhargram…
Hyderabad, Oct 2 (IANS) Leading vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech on Monday announced that its next-generation typhoid vaccine, Typbar-TCV(R), has demonstrated its safety and efficacy in a high risk human challenge clinical study carried out at Oxford…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 2 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and state BJP president Kummanem Rajasekheran on Monday indulged in a war of words in the wake of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s allegation that the Kerala…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Monday unveiled a 1.8 metre-tall bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on the occasion of his 148th birth anniversary. Speaking on the occasion, Naidu…