Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that Bangladesh gets priority among all of India’s neighbours and bilateral ties were moving ahead at a fast pace. She also laid emphasis on investing in youth saying they are the future leaders of the two nations. She was addressing a programme after the inauguration of […]
Positive global cues along with healthy buying in oil and gas stocks lifted the Indian equity markets on Monday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in oil and gas, IT and banking stocks. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) provisionally closed 117 points or 0.36 per cent higher. Similarly, the wider 50-scrip Nifty of […]
The iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House tonight turned gold to mark the most widely celebrated Hindu festival, Diwali. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams hosted a community reception at the Museum of Contemporary Art to celebrate the occasion. “Tonight we mark an occasion which brings millions of people in […]
The trailer of “Qarib Qarib Singlle”, starring Irrfan Khan, will be attached to Aamir Khan’s “Secret Superstar”. “Secret Superstar” will release on October 19. The audience will also get to catch a glimpse “Qarib Qarib Singlle”, which brings to celluloid a fresh pairing of Irrfan and Malayalam actress Parvathy, who is making her Bollywood debut […]
Facebook has acquired ‘tbh’, an anonymous polling app for teenagers which has over 5 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users in the US. The app lets teenagers anonymously answer kind-hearted, multiple-choice questions about friends, who then receive the poll results as compliments, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. “When we set out to build tbh, […]
SoftBank’s multi-billion-dollar investment into ridesharing app Uber will be finalised “very likely in the next week” Uber board member Arianna Huffington has said. Uber’s board voted earlier in October to approve the Japanese tech conglomerate’s cash infusion, which would add six more board seats and annul super-voting shares held by former CEO Travis Kalanick among […]
Two men and a woman were killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the British Isles. Thousands of homes and businesses have lost power in Northern Ireland and Wales. The woman and one man died in separate incidents after trees fell on their cars as hurricane-force gusts battered the island, the BBC reported. The […]
In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first “ripples in space” or gravitational waves produced by the merger of two ancient remnants of stars known as neutron stars. The neutron stars merged in a galaxy called NGC 4993, located about 130 million light years from Earth […]
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a state senate bill, allowing a gender-neutral marker on birth certificates and driver’s licenses starting from 2019. California thus became the first state in the US to allow a “nonbinary” gender to be marked on birth certificates, Xinhua news agency reported. The so-called “nonbinary” gender means not exclusively male […]
Several hideouts of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch were hit by a series of airstrikes launched by US drones in the central province of al-Bayda, a military official said. “The American unmanned aircrafts struck training camps and arms caches of the al-Qaeda terrorist group in different mountainous villages of al-Bayda province with more than 12 airstrikes,” […]