Private carrier Jet Airways on Monday offered a 25 percent discount in its business class fares on its domestic network on tickets booked between June 8 and 10. “The three-day special fare offer will be available for sale across India effective June 8 to 10, 2015 and for travel from June 20, 2015 onwards,” the […]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said his ministry would make necessary amendments to denotify bulls from the list of performing animals so that Jallikattu, the bull taming sport, could be celebrated. Jallikattu was banned by the Supreme Court in 2014. “We want to allow cultural practices and celebrations […]
Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Anand L. Rai’s “Tanu Weds Manu Returns” has become the first movie to touch the Rs.100-crore mark this year. To celebrate the success of the film, its team will throw a party here on Tuesday. Lead actor R. Madhavan also celebrated his birthday recently with a party. The second week’s collections […]
The Indian Basketball Players Association (IBPA) officially started its functioning with an inaugural meeting held at the Indian Medical Association hall here. The meeting was attended on Sunday by some of the well known basketball legends of the country. The list included several Arjuna awardees, Dhyan Chand awardees, Asian all-star player, former Indian captains and […]
Patna, June 8 (IANS) Bihar continued to reel under a heat wave with the mercury touching 44.9 degrees in Gaya district on Monday, followed by 44.7 degrees in Patna, where it broke a nearly 10-year-old record, met officials here said. No respite is in sight soon. Patna Met office director A.K. Sen said that heat […]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Prominent lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Monday termed the government’s decision to appoint former Central Board of Direct Taxation chief K.V. Chowdary as the new Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) as “shameful and unfortunate”. “It’s shameful and unfortunate that the BJP and the Congress have come together to destroy the CVC (by) […]
Remo D’Souza, whose latest directorial venture “ABCD 2” is ready for release, says he was able to make the original 2013 film “ABCD: AnyBody Can Dance” because of his team. Present at the “Nach Baliye” sets were actor Varun Dhawan, Remo and the dancing trio, Sushant, Raghav and Dharmesh. At this promotional, event Remo gave […]
Actress Vidya Balan believes an actor is responsible for the brand he or she endorses, but only to an extent. Her comment comes in the wake of the Maggi controversy which has highlighted the responsibility of a celebrity brand endorser regarding a product. When asked about her take on it, Vidya, during a promotional event […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a phase II clinical trial for testing the ability of a promising vaccine to reverse advanced Type-1 diabetes, researchers said. The generic vaccine called Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) was earlier found effective in reversing advanced Type-1 diabetes in mice and subsequently completed a successful phase I human […]
India’s maiden Mars mission spacecraft Orbiter got eclipsed early on Monday, with the sun coming in between the red planet and Earth, a space official said. “With Mars moving on one side of the sun, and Earth being on other side, our spacecraft, orbiting around the red planet, is blocked from receiving or sending signals […]