The visuals of actor Ranveer Singh taking a dive in the ocean and beating up a shark in a Rupa Frontline advertisement have got the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) up in arms. PETA plans to take the matter forward by writing to the actor and the brand. “PETA will be writing […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday warned that five lakh people would die if the epicentre of an earthquake was in Patna, and stressed the need to make buildings quake-proof. “We only felt the tremors as the epicentre was in Nepal. If it would have been in Patna, at least five lakh people would […]
Automobile major Volkswagen India on Wednesday announced top level management changes with the appointment of its new president and managing director from July 1, 2015. According to the company,Andreas Lauermann will take over from the incumbent Mahesh Kodumudi, who will take-over another position with Volkswagen Group of America with effect from June 1, 2015. “Kodumudi […]
Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday said that it will operate an additional flight between Delhi and Hyderabad for the peak summer period. The airline will operate the additional flight on alternate days. “With this new flight, frequency of service for the summer will increase from 10 to 14 flights weekly to Hyderabad from Delhi,” […]
The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are only reflections of the sun’s light on reflective material on the surface, possibly ice, NASA said. A new sequence of images taken by the Dawn spacecraft on May 3 and 4 from a distance of 13,600 km are the closest yet obtained of bright spots […]
Himachal Pradesh is trying to rope in Bollywood actress Kangna Ranaut, who hails from the hill state, as a brand ambassador for promoting tourism, an official said on Wednesday. “We are planning to hire Kangna Ranaut as a brand ambassador as it’s going to help us practically like Gujarat benefitted from its brand ambassador Amitabh […]
Parliament on Wednesday approved the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets Bill providing for heavy penalties for stashing black money away in foreign accounts with the Rajya Sabha passing the measure, two days after the Lok Sabha had done so. Moving what is called the Black Money Bill for acceptance by the upper house, Finance Minister […]
President Pranab Mukherjee paid homage to his predecessor Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the fifth president of India, on his 110th birth anniversary on Wednesday. The president and his staff placed floral tributes in front of Ahmed’s portrait in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan here. In his message to the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Committee, Mukherjee […]
After gunmen opened fire inside a bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in the Pakistani port city of Karachi killing 45 people on Wednesday, celebrities like Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar and Bollywood star Arjun Rampal were left in shock. The incident took place near the city’s Safoora Chowk area in the provincial capital of Sindh. At […]
She was just 22 when she sacrificed her life to save a group of American children aboard a Pan Am flight that had been hijacked on the ground at Karachi. Now, the family of Chandigarh girl Neerja Bhanot, the seniormost cabin crew member on the flight and who is being immortalised in a biopic featuring […]