Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) A Mumbai-based leading cardiac surgeon Dr. Ramakanta Panda has been shortlisted for the prestigious Sony-BBC Earth Photography Contest-2022, an official said here on Friday. The theme for this year’s contest was ‘Thrill of Life’ and photographers worldwide were invited to send their entries in categories like landscape, adventure and wildlife. After a […]
Lucknow/ Gurugram, Oct 10 (IANS) Veteran Samajwadi leader and MP, Mulayam Singh Yadav, died here on Monday after a prolonged illness. His son and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav tweeted about his demise. Mulayam Singh Yadav was 82 and had been on life support system since the past one week. He was admitted to the Medanta […]
Moscow, Sep 29 (IANS) Russia Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham, the media reported. Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise secured almost total popular support, BBC reported. So-called votes were held in […]
Washington, Sep 24 Soaring inflation is high on the agenda for voters and that’s troubling for the Democrats in the midterms for the house of reps, just two months away in November, which promises to be a new defining moment in politics that could change the course of history of the country with both parties seem […]
London, Sep 19 (IANS) Former Olympic medalist Sebastian Coe, who was responsible for organising the 2012 Olympics in London, including the Queen’s unforgettable sketch with Daniel Craig, which opened the ceremony, said in an interview with BBC News that “a whole heap of people still believe she did jump from the helicopter,” reports ‘Variety’. It was […]
New Delhi, Sep (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday called on Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo. He was received very warmly by El-Sisi who pointed out that relations between India and Egypt are well-established through history, and expressed appreciation that military-to-military cooperation between both countries has reached a new level and that signing […]
New Delhi, Sep 17 Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he is aware of India’s concerns over his country’s conflict with Ukraine, and wanted the war to end. During the bilateral meeting between both the leaders on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Samarkand, Putin was quoted on […]
An Indian American has installed a life-size statue of film star Amitabh Bachchan outside his home in New Jersey state. The statue is a glass enclosure and it was installed amidst much celebration. Gopi Sheth, the New Jersey resident, announced the installation in a tweet which noted that lots of Amitabh fans gathered for the […]
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) Global coffee chain Starbucks has named Indian-born Laxman Narasimhan its next CEO. Narasimhan, who currently heads health and hygiene company Reckitt, will join Starbucks in October and take over from its iconic interim CEO Howard Shultz in April. Narasimhan joins the growing ranks of Indian-descent CEOs heading leading US corporate giants such […]
United Nations, Aug 30 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who announced a $160 million appeal for Pakistan flood relief, is to visit the flood-devastated country next week to show solidarity with the victims of the disaster, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Describing the disaster as “a monsoon on steroids”, Guterres said in his […]