In a bolt from the blue, the censor board has refused to clear the “Modi Ka Gaon” feature film based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda, one of the grounds being cited is the ongoing assembly elections in five states. The producer of the medium-budget film, Suresh Jha, who has co-directed it with Tushar […]
India scored 86/1 at lunch against Bangladesh in the one-off cricket Test against Bangladesh at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday. Murali Vijay (45) and Cheteshwar Pujara (39) were at the crease when umpires called the break. For the visitors, medium pacer Taskin Ahmed took one wicket. With India opting to bat, opener […]
Buddhist spiritual leader The Dalai Lama has said he was fortunate to be once again visiting Amaravati, a sacred place for Buddhists. He reached here on Thursday on a three-day visit to Andhra Pradesh. State legislative assembly speaker K. Sivaprasad Rao, ministers and senior officials received him at the Gannavarm Airport here. The Buddhist leader […]
This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Border Force, the New Zealand Customs Service and the Organised Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand. A long-running Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation supported by the New Zealand Customs Service (NZCS), Organised Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand (OFCANZ), the Fijian Transnational […]
With the US moving the UN to put Pathankot attack mastermind and chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohamed, Masood Azhar, on the list of international terrorists, India has again taken up the matter with China, a senior official said on Tuesday. “We have been informed of this development (US moving the UN) and the […]
Pope Francis released a video shortly ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the annual American football championship game, saying the game is an opportunity to show solidarity and build virtue. “Great sporting events like today’s (Sunday) Super Bowl are highly symbolic, showing that it is possible to build a culture of encounter and a world of […]
US President Donald Trump has agreed to attend the upcoming NATO summit slated to be held in May, after having repeatedly criticised the alliance and having called it “obsolete”, the media reported. Trump spoke with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday evening regarding the US’ “strong support for NATO”, the […]
The key Indian equity indices on Monday opened higher following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 158.19 points or 0.56 per cent higher soon after opening. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 48.85 points or 0.56 per cent higher at 8,789.80 points. The Sensex of […]
No traffic was allowed on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway on Monday for the fourth consecutive day, authorities said. The highway remained closed due to multiple landslides in the Ramban sector and snowfall in Bannihal, a traffic official said. Landslide and snow clearance operations are in full swing as the weather has improved, the official added. […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called US President Donald Trump a “fraud” and accused him of falling short of commitments to middle-class voters, pointing to his Cabinet and senior advisers’ ties to Wall Street, the media reported. “This guy is a fraud,” Sanders, also a former presidential hopeful, told CNN on Sunday. “This guy ran for […]