Mumbai, Sep 3 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is expecting a windfall from the Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights auction, which gets underway here on Monday with top companies…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Four Ministers of State — Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sithraman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi — were on Sunday promoted to the Cabinet and nine new faces including four former…
Pyongyang, Sep 3 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale was detected in North Korea after the country conducted its sixth nuclear test, a move the US and its allies in the region…
Washington, Sep 3 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has paid a second visit to Texas, after he was criticized for keeping distance from flooded areas and survivors during his first visit. Trump, along with First…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Hardeep Singh Puri, a former IFS officer who joined the BJP ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha polls, will be among nine new faces to be inducted on Sunday in the…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump is due to visit the US state of Texas later on Saturday, this time to meet the families whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Harvey as…
Chennai, Sep 2 (IANS) Actor Pawan Kalyan, who turned 45 on Saturday, says he is humbled by the love of his fans but wonders if he truly deserves it. In a series of tweets, Pawan…
Los Angeles, Sep 2 (IANS) Actress Jane Fonda says sex gets better with age because one gets “braver” about getting intimate. The “Barbarella” star is glad that her new Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” gives…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) At least 12 sewage overflows and toxic chemical spilling from about 36 industrial facilities were reported in the US city of Houston in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane Harvey that…
San Francisco, Sep 2 (IANS) In a bid to expand the reach of internet to every corner of the world, Facebook said that it has created a data map of the human population of 23…
Chennai, Sep 2 (IANS) Megastar Chiranjeevi on Saturday said it was everyone’s responsibility to protect the rivers and extended his support for yogi Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s initiative “Rally For Rivers”. In a video message, Chiranjeevi…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) Houston’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey flooding in the US will be a “multi-year project”, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said. “This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,” he…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) The death toll in the catastrophic hurricane Harvey that lashed through the US state of Texas has increased to 46, the media reported. Meanwhile, Houston and other areas hit by record…
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has urged US President Donald Trump not to scrap a former President Barrack Obama-era programme that protects young undocumented immigrants. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 1 (IANS) Acclaimed film actor Kamal Haasan on Friday hinted that he may form a political party but made it clear he won’t ally with “saffron” — the Hindu Right. The 62-year-old superstar,…
Mumbai, Sep 1 (IANS) Nearly 36 hours after the 117-year-old Huseini Building collapsed here, agencies looking for survivors in the debris called off their operations on Friday evening as the death toll in Mumbai’s worst…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) The stage is set for a reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday with two ministers having resigned and nine…
Islamabad, Sep 1 (IANS) The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, has forwarded four references, prepared against the Sharif family, to its headquarters in Islamabad proposing seizure of the entire assets of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz…
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) People who were denied from entering the US under President Donald Trump’s first travel ban can now reapply for American visas, according to a settlement reached in a case that temporarily…
Singapore, Sep 1 (IANS) Indian-origin veteran civil servant J.Y. Pillay on Friday took over as Singapore’s acting President until a new head of the state is elected later this month. The temporary appointment of Pillay,…