A man in Singapore has been sentenced to four-week jail and fined 1,000 Singaporean dollars for racist remarks, insulting an Indian national working at the Changi Airport. William Aw Chin Chai, 47, had also stepped on a foot of a woman who held the lift door open for him and also splashed noodles on two […]
The fate of Andhra Pradesh’s new capital city Amaravati hangs in balance with the World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) pulling out of a project to fund its development. China-based AIIB on July 23 confirmed that it is not considering the Amaravati Sustainable Infrastructure and Institutional Development Project, barely six days after the […]
Renowned sand artist from Odisha, Sudarsan Pattnaik, has won the People’s Choice Prize at International Sand Sculpting Championship 2019 held in Boston city of the US. Pattnaik sculpted a sand art on plastic pollution with a message “Save the Ocean”, which brought him the achievement. The festival started on July 26 and concluded on July […]
Going into the second half of the year, Bollywood has a strange challenge at hand. So far, the biggest hot at the domestic box-office is a Hollywood film. “Avengers: Endgame” has crossed the Rs 365-crore mark in India, and is by far the big film of the year so far. Not even did the mighty […]
Back in the days, heroes, who are generally considered as main part of our films, were mostly seen beating the villain or romancing the actresses or flaunting their machismo on screen. With time, our male artistes have tried their best to change the typical image by coming out of their comfort zone and taking up […]
Charging Goods and Services Tax (GST) of Rs 67.50 on two bananas in JW Marriott here to actor Rahul Bose cost the hotel Rs 25,000. The Chandigarh Excise and Taxation Department on Saturday imposed a penalty on the high-end hotel for the illegal collection of tax on a fresh fruit that is not taxable. The […]
The first half of 2019 saw a smashing success, with hero-led stories such as “Gully Boy”, “Uri: The Surgical Strike”, “Kesari” and “Kabir Singh” breaking all records at the Indian box-office. The second half, though, is all about women and women power! Machismo was once a flavour for every Bollywood film, but the fad seems […]
An Australian business delegation on Thursday met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and discussed the investment opportunities in the state. The delegation led by Australian Consul General Susan Grace included 22 delegates from Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria. The delegates were from various sectors like mines, fuel, lithium batteries manufacturing, education, logistics […]
Global software major Infosys’ co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy on Thursday congratulated his son in-law Rishi Sunak on his appointment as Minister in the new Boris Johnson-led British government. “Our advice to our children, including Rishi, has been to work hard, be honest and do good for society. We wish him well,” Murthy told IANS in […]
The founder of Saravana Bhavan chain of South Indian restaurant P. Rajagopal, who surrendered last week to serve a life term for a murder committed decades back, died here on Thursday morning in a private hospital, police said. The 71-year-old, dubbed the “Dosa king”, was shifted to a private hospital here on Tuesday on the […]