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Los Angeles: Hollywood star Johnny Depp is headed to Europe for an overseas tour with his band Hollywood Vampires, which includes rock luminaries such as Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen. According to ‘Variety’, the supergroup had previously cancelled a tour back in March because of pandemic-related obstacles. “We kept trying to make it happen, […]
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Bengaluru: An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale shook parts of Hassan district and neighbouring regions in Karnataka in the wee hours of Thursday, a disaster management official said. The earthquake was also felt in many villages near Somwarpet in Kodagu district. People ran out of their houses following the tremor. According to Karnataka […]
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Mumbai: Recovering from its record low, the rupee inched higher by 9 paise to 78.23 against the US dollar in early morning trade on Thursday. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 78.26 against the American dollar, then inched higher to quote at 78.23, registering a rise of 9 paise from the previous […]
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Hyderabad: In an early morning hit and run case, three persons, including a woman, died on the spot after an unidentified vehicle hit the motorcycle they were traveling at Aushapur on the national highway in Ghatkesar on the city outskirts on Thursday. The victims were identified as P.Naveen(25), D.Naveen (23), both from Jangaon district and […]
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New Delhi: After a substantial slump in the previous session, domestic equity benchmark indices opened on Thursday on a positive note. Sensex slumped 709 points the previous session, dragged by a selloff in heavyweight Reliance Industries shares. “Today, markets are likely to make cautious start amid weak global cues. Traders will be concerned as the […]
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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has allocated Rs 7.2 crore to mitigate man-animal conflict in the seven forest ranges under the Coimbatore forest division. Artificial Intelligence-based e-surveillance cameras would be installed on a pilot basis in the Madukkarai forest range under the Coimbatore forest division. This area is vulnerable to man-animal conflict with wild elephants […]
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Chennai: Actress Krithi Shetty will be playing the female lead in director Venkat Prabhu’s upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual film, featuring actor Naga Chaitanya in the lead, its makers announced on Thursday. The film, that is tentatively being referred to as #NC22, has triggered a huge amount of interest as it will not only mark Venkat Prabhu’s entry […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in floods in Assam and urged party workers to continue extending assistance in rescue and rehabilitation operations. The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Wednesday as 12 more people were killed and 55 lakh people affected across 32 districts with the […]
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Amaravati: Polling was underway for the by-election to the Atmakur Assembly seat on Thursday. Voting began at all 279 polling stations in the constituency in Nellore district at 7 a.m. amid tight security and will continue till 6 p.m. A total of 2,13,327 voters comprising 1,07,367 women and 1,05,960 men are eligible to exercise their […]
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New Delhi: India logged 13,313 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,33,44,958, while the active cases rose to 83,990, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,941 with 38 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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Pilibhit: Ten persons were killed when a pick-up van rammed into a tree on Puranpur highway under the Gajraula police circle here on Thursday morning. Seven others were seriously injured in the accident and have been admitted to a hospital. According to reports, the van was moving at a high speed when the driver apparently dozed […]
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Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra is an ecstatic entrepreneur with her new tableware collection ‘Sona Home’. But before she could represent India on the table, her Instagram encountered a technical glitch! Priyanka Chopra’s account vanished on Instagram on Tuesday, leaving many fans worried and confused. Fans took to Twitter and Instagram to share their disappointment and expressed […]
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Lakhimpur Kheri: Motion sensor cameras, baits and a cage have been placed near the temple where a tigress reportedly mauled a priest to death last week. Forest officials are combing the area with two elephants to spot the tigress that is said to have devoured 18 humans in the past two years in the Dudhwa […]
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Warangal: Two youths had died when their bike hit a stationary lorry near Naidu Petrol pump under Khila Warangal mandal limits in the early hours of Thursday. The deceased were Gaddala Madhukar of Illandha village of Wardhannapet mandal and his relative Ganesh of Wardhannapet. They died on the spot as their motorcycle rammed into the […]
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Rotterdam: Indian women’s hockey League campaign in Rotterdam on Wednesday. Experienced forward Vandana Katariya (39′, 54′) starred with a brace, while Sonika (54′) and Sangita Kumari (57′) scored a goal each to help India sign off the prestigious league on a high note ahead of the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup 2022. The Indian team […]
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Washington: A pro-Pakistan US lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the State Department to declare India an egregious violator of religious freedom. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic member of the House of Representatives known to be a sympathizer of Pakistan, is the lead on the resolution that has been co-sponsored […]
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San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter has confirmed that the platform is working on a built-in Notes feature that will allow users to write longer posts. On its own platform, Twitter introduced Notes and said it is testing the new feature for its audience. “A small group of writers is helping us test Notes. They can […]
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San Francisco: A Black former Tesla worker who said he was harassed and faced with “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word,” while working at the company’s Fremont, California, plant has rejected a substantially reduced award of $15 million in his lawsuit. Owen Diaz, who worked at the Tesla plant in 2015 and 2016 as a […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the new premises of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Vanijya Bhawan on Thursday at 10:30 am. Constructed near the India Gate, the Vanijya Bhawan is designed as a smart building which incorporates the principles of sustainable architecture with a special focus on energy saving. […]
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Ankara, June 23 (IANS) Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud has arrived in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, to start his first visit to Turkey since the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted the crown prince on Wednesday with a grand welcoming ceremony, which was followed by […]
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Hyderabad: With an aim to encourage people to use electric vehicles, about 300 public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations will be installed in and around the city. They will be installed in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits and within Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority jurisdiction. “The cost of charging was decided as Rs 18 kilowatt […]
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By Markus Wagner, Weihuan Zhou After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organisation’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference […]
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Hyderabad: The four juvenile suspects in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case filed bail petitions in court on Wednesday. The court, however, dismissed the applications. The counsel for the suspects argued before the court that all of them should be granted bail as after their police custody ended, they were sent back to the juvenile home. […]
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Terrorism is a global menace that demands joint international response and coordination. It cannot be tackled in isolation, nor can it be condemned selectively. The nations which infamously pursue the ‘good terrorist, bad terrorist’ line of policy are bound to swallow their own bitter medicine. By blocking the joint bid by India and the United […]
