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Los Angeles: Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died. He was 75. Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. “Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather […]
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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday urged the people of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to vote in record numbers to ensure the prosperous future of their States. The Home Minister appealed to the voters of Uttar Pradesh, in the ongoing second phase of polling, to elect a government that will ensure a […]
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New Delhi: As many as 34,113 fresh COVID-19 cases were reported across the country in the 24-hour period, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. A total of 75.18 crore tests have been conducted so far in India, with 10,67,908 tests held in the last 24 hours, as per ministry data. Country’s […]
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New Delhi: As Goa and Uttarakhand are voting for their Assemblies in a single phase on Monday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has appealed to people to vote. “To all my Goan friends today; choose development, choose a politics that puts you first, choose the freedom to be you: choose Goa!”, she tweeted. “Dear Uttarakhand people, Mountain […]
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Panaji: Polling for Goa’s 40 Assembly seats has started at 7 a.m. on Monday. As many as 301 candidates are in the fray in the single-phase assembly elections, where the ruling BJP is looking to score a hat-trick of victory. The party has been in power in the coastal state since 2012. The main parties […]
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Mumbai: Equity indices opened in red on Monday with Sensex down by 1,256.48 points and Nifty down by 373.10 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 1,256.48 points or trading at 56,896.44 and down by 2.16 per cent at 9.27 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17,001.70 at 9.27 am, down by […]
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Sriharikota: India on Monday morning successfully placed into orbit its radar imaging satellite EOS-04 in a text book style. With this the Indian space agency began its 2022 romance with space missions. At 5.59 a.m. Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C52) blasted off from the first launch pad carrying three satellites including the earth […]
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Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that Muslim women must come forward to dispel misconceptions about ‘hijab’ and ‘purdah’ to counter people who are spreading hate in the name of protests against it. “My dear sisters, use this time to inform people about hijab, dispel the prejudice, express that you […]
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Gurugram: A Gurugram restaurant faced huge outrage on social media after the staff denied entry to a 22-year-old disabled woman in a wheelchair. The disabled person has been identified as Shrishti Pandey, a resident of Delhi. The woman tweeted: “The staff first ignored me but later said that the wheelchair won’t go inside, because it […]
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Lucknow: A girl wearing Hijab will become the prime minister of the country one day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said amid the controversy over Muslim women’s headscarves. “If a girl decides to wear Hijab and asks her parents to do so and when her parents allow her to wear it, who can stop her […]
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New Delhi: The Life Insurance Corporation of India on Sunday filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with capital markets regulator SEBI. The insurer is looking to sell the Centre’s five per cent equity stake in the company via its upcoming IPO, the DRHP document said. The Centre aims to offload a total of 316 […]
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Lucknow: Fifty-five seats spread across nine districts, including some in Rohilkhand region, will go to polls on Monday in the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh which will see senior Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan and state Finance Minister Suresh Khanna trying their luck at the hustings. As many as 586 candidates are […]
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Midnapore: A total of two people were killed and one was critically injured after being hit by a local train while clicking selfies near a railway bridge over the Cossye river in Midnapore in West Bengal on Saturday. The injured person was rescued by the Railway Police and was rushed to the hospital. Railway Senior […]
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The woman, who arrived here from Harare, had concealed the drugs in her trolley and executive bags and two file folders, a senior customs official said.
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Etah: The Etah police have arrested two men for kidnapping, rape and murder of the six-year-old daughter of a garment businessman in Uttar Pradesh. The two were arrested on Saturday. The girl was raped allegedly by one of the accused. Her body was found in a vacant plot behind a private hospital in the Awagarh […]
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New Delhi: The Centre has decided to continue the umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) of states and the union territories for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 with a total central financial outlay of Rs 26,275 crore in the Union Budget 2022-23. This scheme comprises all relevant sub-schemes that contribute to modernisation and […]
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New Delhi: Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar has dedicated six varieties of fruits and vegetables to the nation. The six varieties of fruits and vegetables include two varieties of mango ‘Pusa Lalima’ and ‘Pusa Shresth’, brinjal variety ‘Pusa Vaibhav’, palak (spinach) variety ‘Pusavilayati palak’, cucumber variety ‘Pusa Gynoecious Cucumber Hybrid-18’ […]
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Dehradun: The political fate of several BJP heavyweights, including Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and state unit president Madan Kaushik will be decided in the Uttarakhand Assembly polls on Monday. Luck of other ministers in the Dhami cabinet will also be decided on Monday. Polling will be held on 70 seats of the Uttarakhand Assembly […]
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Meanwhile, the active covid caseload has reduced to 5,37,045, which constitute 1.26 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
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The father and Ahmad Alai have been caretakers of Gopi Tirith Temple, a small Shiva temple in Zabarwan hills in Srinagar.
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which has succeeded in sustaining the Telangana sentiment ever since forming the first government in the state in 2014, was quick to seize the opportunity.
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Piggybacking on EOS-04 in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) are two small satellites - INSPIREsat-1 and INS-2TD.
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Pune: Renowned industrialist Rahul Bajaj – the doyen of the Bajaj Group – passed away in Pune following a prolonged illness. He was 83. Born in Kolkata in 1938, he was ailing from cancer for a long time and the end came around 2.30 p.m. on saturday. Bajaj had taken charge of the Bajaj Group […]
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Mumbai: Central Railway and SugarBox Networks have now launched a new initiative called the ‘Content on Demand’ service for local trains passengers who can now enjoy watching movies, TV shows, and news for free while traveling, the Indian railways official said. According to an official, passengers’ journeys will now be full of entertainment. Lakhs of […]
