New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The government Monday appointed new governors for Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Gujarat. The governors are Ram Naik (Uttar Pradesh), Balramji Dass Tandon (Chhattisgarh), Keshari Nath Tripathi (West Bengal) and Om Prakash Kohli (Gujarat), a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) A Delhi Police constable was shot dead by unidentified men near his residence here Monday, police said. Shivraj was on his way to meet someone when two men attacked him and pumped a bullet into his chest near his home in Jyoti Nagar area of east Delhi around noon. The assailants […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Monday passed a bill to amend the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act which will pave the way for appointment of former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra as principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The bill replaces an ordinance brought by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Yoga guru Ramdev said Monday that he would talk to Ved Pratap Vaidik about his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, but defended Vaidik saying that he must have met the terrorist leader as a journalist. “I will talk to Vaidik (ji)…I am very confident that even if he has met […]
It’s an English language offbeat entertainer; made by an Indian director with three veteran and two young stars of Bollywood, and topped with one promotional Hindi song – that’s Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny. Arjun Kapoor, who plays one of the five oddballs in the movie, believes Indian audiences are ready for such content. “I was […]
The world witnessed a poor performance by Brail this year’s FIFA World Cup. The performance left the Big B of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, highly disappointed and the Bollywood megastar is shocked with what happened to his favourite team. After losing to Germany in the semi-finals, Brazil was defeated by Netherlands last night and they failed […]
Washington, July 13 One of the largest ethnic professional organisations representing some 100,000 Indian American physicians is trying to involve the younger generation even as it looks at new ways of giving back to the motherland. Dr. Seema Jain, who would take over as president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) next […]
Nagpur, July 11 (IANS) Three debt-ridden farmers committed suicide even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his well-received budget Thursday, a farm NGO said here Friday. The extreme step by the farmers was prompted by the failed monsoon in large parts of eastern Maharashtra, which has compelled many of them to go in for second and […]
Philadelphia, July 11 (IANS) The “Glee” star Becca Tobin’s boyfriend Matt Bendik was found dead in a Philadelphia hotel, and the circumstances of his death are said to be unclear. He was 35. The night club owner was in Philadephia on a business trip with Tobin. The couple was seen celebrating Wednesday night and everything seemed […]
Mumbai, July 11 (IANS) Such was the spunk and joy in Zohra Sehgal’s life that when on the sets of 1997 film “Tamanna”, she was offered tea or coffee, she asked for champagne, reveals the movie’s producer and actress Pooja Bhatt. Zohra, who died in New Delhi Thursday aged 102, was 85 back then. “Had the […]