Chandigarh, Oct 12, Noted Punjab-based poet Surjit Patar was among the four litterateurs who announced on Monday that they will return their Sahitya Akademi Award to protest against the growing atmosphere of intolerance in the country. Besides Patar, the other three poets and writers who announced that they would return their awards were Jaswinder Singh, […]
Bollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra on Monday met Richard Taylor, New Zealand’s creative genius and five-time Oscar winning talent, here. He says exploring the filmmaking hub of this Pacific nation was a revelation. Sidharth also sampled what went behind the scenes of Hollywood trilogies like “The Lord Of The Rings” and “The Hobbit”, apart from having […]
Belligerent Shiv Sena activists abused and blackened the face of veteran journalist and L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni to protest his organising the launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book here on Monday but the event went on ahead amid high security. The incident created a nationwide outrage with condemnation from […]
Around 57 percent of 13.5 million electorate voted on Monday in 49 of the 243 constituencies in the first round of battle for political power in Bihar. The two main fronts soon claimed victory. It marked the start of an intense five-phase contest that will end on November 5 and whose outcome — to be […]
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Scottish micro-economist Angus Deaton, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced here on Monday. According to an academy statement, Deaton, 69, was awarded “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”, Xinhua news agency reported. “More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced the understanding […]
Clashes erupted in parts of Srinagar on Monday over an attack on a truck in Udhampur, as a shutdown called by the separatists affected life across the Kashmir Valley. Group of youths pelted stones at police and paramilitary forces in many areas of the old city Srinagar, forcing the security forces to baton-charge and lob […]
Sydney, Oct 12, A bill to penalise the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of people without their consent, or revenge porn, was tabled in the Australian parliament on Monday. The bill, introduced by opposition labour MP Tim Watts, aims to fight violence, mostly against women, and proposes up to three years of imprisonment […]
NSW Minister for Transport Andrew Constance, Minister for Roads Duncan Gay and CBD Coordinator General Marg Prendergast have thanked Sydney bus customers and motorists for adapting to Sydney’s CBD transport changes, and asked for vigilance with 10 days left until the first block of George Street closes for light rail construction. “Bus customers have responded […]
Following Friday’s attack on a Kashmir Valley-bound truck in Udhampur, the Indian Army on Sunday intensified patrolling along the Jammu-Srinagar highway to keep anti-social elements at bay. “The army has intensified patrolling on the Jammu-Srinagar highway to prevent any untoward incident,” top sources in the army told IANS here. “Immediately after the unfortunate event in […]
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is making a beginning in Bihar by contesting six seats in the assembly elections but it won’t be a symbolic fight, says party chief Asaduddin Owaisi. “It’s a serious fight and we have entered the electoral fray to win,” the third-time Hyderabad MP told IANS in an interview at Darussalam, the […]