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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking directions to the Centre, the National Testing Agency (NTA), and others to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) exam scheduled to be held on July 17. Refusing to entertain the plea, a single judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula said: There […]
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New Delhi: Words like ‘jumlajeevi’, ‘dohra charitra’, ‘baal buddhi’, and ‘Snoopgate’ have been declared ‘unparliamentary’ in both the Houses — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. A new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat lists out unparliamentary words and expressions. These include ‘anarchist’, ‘Shakuni’, ‘tanashah’, ‘taanashahi’, ‘dictatorial’, ‘Jaichand’, ‘Khalistani’, ‘vinash purush’, and ‘khoon se kheti’ as unparliamentary […]
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Hyderabad: Vaidyaratnam Oushadhasala, the well-known Ayurveda brand from Kerala is stepping up its operations in Telangana to promote authentic Kerala Ayurveda treatment through free consultation and launch of ‘Angana’ an exclusive Ayurvedic healthcare clinic for women. On Thursday, Vaidyaratnam launched ‘Angana’ for women at SD Road, near Sangeet theatre cross roads, which would provide treatment […]
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Sangareddy: A man died when the wall of a dilapidated house collapsed at IDA Bollaram In Medak district on Thursday morning. The victim was Surjakanta Hanswada (32), a native of Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal. He had migrated to IDA Bollaram a few years ago along with his wife and son. Surjakanta was living in […]
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Medak: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has assured to build a permanent bridge across the Gangamma Vagu, a local stream, to provide safe connectivity for the residents of Dhup Singh Thanda of Havelighanpur Mandal in Medak district. Since the culvert was getting damaged every time the area witnessed heavy rain, Finance Minister T Harish Rao […]
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Hyderabad: Everybody feels anxious. Before an important appointment, in between conversations, early in the morning or late at night, there’s no fixed time to experience that gutting feeling. Given the stigma and unawareness around mental health in our country, any conversation about anxiety is met with phrases like ‘it will pass, calm down’ or ‘time […]
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Hyderabad: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi located at the Vishnu temple in Richmond Hill, Canada, was vandalised on Wednesday. “We are distressed at the desecration of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vishnu temple in Richmond Hill. This criminal, hateful act of vandalism has deeply hurt the sentiments of the Indian community in Canada. We are in […]
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Hyderabad: ‘Macherla Niyojakavargam,’ a political action drama starring Nithiin, is one of Tollywood’s most anticipated films. Things are heating up now that the film’s producers have unveiled the first look poster of star Samuthirakani from the film. The makers, who took to their social media websites to promote ‘Macherla Niyojakavargam’, released Samuthirakani’s poster, introducing him as […]
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Kandhar: At least 180 people infected with cholera have been admitted to Mir Wais Hospital in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. Up to “74 patients affected with the disease are from Shah Walikot district,” Soorgul Nawzadi, a physician in the hospital, said on Thursday. The disease earlier killed 20 children in the neighbouring Helmand province, […]
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New Delhi: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry’s apex body representing telcos, on Thursday urged the government not to allow Big Tech companies to enter the 5G spectrum auction this month via back door channels. The COAI said in a statement that the 5G spectrum should not be provided on an administrative basis […]
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin who was tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, has been admitted to a private hospital in Chennai for further checkups. Stalin has been admitted to the Kauvery hospital for further investigations. The hospital in a medical bulletin on Thursday said that the Chief Minister is stable and various checks […]
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Mumbai: Actress Jahnvi Kapoor’s upcoming film ‘Goodluck Jerry’ is all set to release digitally on July 29. Janhvi said: “GoodLuck Jerry has been an exciting experience as it gave me the opportunity to explore a completely unique genre. Siddharth has been a catalyst in truly bringing out the Jerry in me!” “Working with Aanand L. Rai […]
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Hyderabad: Even as civic bodies are cautioning the public against removing opening manholes or removing manhole covers in view of the monsoon, officials have approached the Panjagutta police complaining that manhole covers were being stolen rampantly in Punjagutta. According to the complaint lodged by local civic officials, manhole covers were being stolen by some unknown […]
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Mancherial: An IAF chopper air lifted two shepherds stranded in the overflowing Godavari river on the outskirts of Somanpalli village in Chennur mandal on Thursday. The air force chopper was pressed into service after the local MLA Balka Suman sought help of Municipal Administration minister K T Rama Rao in rescuing the two sheperds. Accordingly, […]
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Hyderabad: The Uppal police on Thursday arrested a youngster on charges of stealing motorcycles from residential colonies and seized 22 vehicles from him. According to the police, Vangala Raju, 19, a resident of Nagaram in Suryapet, used to come to the city during the night and after identifying vehicles parked at bus-stands and Metro stations, […]
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Hathras: A local court in Uttar Pradesh has sent Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair to 14-days judicial custody on Thursday. Zubair was presented in the court in a case registered against him under section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race, etc.), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings […]
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New Delhi: Hit by a dwindling user base, streaming giant Netflix has partnered Satya Nadella-run Microsoft for its new ad-supported subscription plan for its over 221 million subscribers. Microsoft will be Netflix’s global advertising technology and sales partner to support all its advertising needs as “we work together to build a new ad-supported offering,” said Greg […]
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Peddapalli: Seven Singareni workers, who got stuck in Godavari river near Godavarikhani, were rescued by an NDRF team on Thursday. Singareni workers, who went to the company’s intake well located in the Godavari river on Wednesday, got stuck as flood water surrendered the intake-well. Though the teams tried to rescue the workers, the boats failed […]
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Mumbai: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, whose last film ‘Dhaakad’ performed miserably at the box office, unveiled her first look from the movie ‘Emergency’. The actress plays the late former prime minister, Indira Gandhi, in the film written and directed by her. ‘Emergency’, as the title suggests, is all about the state of internal emergency declared […]
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Hyderabad: Anything can trend on Twitter. Bizarre memes, celebrity pap photos, and even a basic English phrase. It’s all on what the algorithm picks. On Thursday, ‘No. He’ was on the ‘What’s happening?’ list of the micro-blogging site. By the look of it, one would imagine it to be some sort of a campaign that […]
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Mumbai: In a relief, the Maharashtra government has slashed VAT on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 per litre and Rs 3 per litre respectively, Chief Minister Eknath Shnde announced here on Thursday. This would entail a burden of Rs 6,000 crore on the state exchequer but will lead to reducing the inflation, Shinde said, after […]
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Mumbai: Bollywood actresses Sara Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor have opened up about their near-death travel misadventures in an episode of ‘Koffee With Karan’ Season 7. Bonding over the scenic beauty of Kedarnath, Janhvi and Sara’s trip hit a roadblock as they faced two near-death experiences. When Janhvi chose a hike at Bhairavnath over walking […]
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday once again demonstrated his “disparaging” behaviour towards Twitter by posting a ‘pile of poop’ emoji as the micro-blogging platform sued him over terminating the $44 billion takeover deal. As Twitter sued Musk, the company also submitted an earlier poop emoji reply by the Tesla CEO to Twitter CEO […]
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Hyderabad: The LB Special Operations Team along with the Hayathnagar police caught three persons in alleged possession of 4 litres of hashish oil worth nearly Rs.15 lakh on Thursday. Police said the arrested persons K.Shiva and P.Nooka Raju, both from Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh, were smuggling the oil from Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad to be […]
