Indian women’s hockey squad for Tokyo Olympics test event announced

Indian women’s hockey squad for Tokyo Olympics test event announced

Hockey India on Friday named the 18-member Indian Women’s Hockey team for the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics 2020 Test Event scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan from 17th-21st August 2019. The Indian team will be captained by Rani and vice-captained by Savita. Under Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne, the composition of the team has remained similar […]

Malaika was injured during ‘Chaiyya chaiyya’ shoot

Malaika was injured during ‘Chaiyya chaiyya’ shoot

Malaika Arora shot to fame with her superhit dance number “Chhaiyya chhaiyya” with Shah Rulh Khan in Mani Ratnam’s 1998 film, “Dil Se”. After all these years, superdancer Malaika has come out to reveal a shocking incident about the filming of the song. She was bleeding around the waist while dancing, she revealed. “I fell […]

Kargil hero runs last lap with Victory Flame in Drass

Kargil hero runs last lap with Victory Flame in Drass

Kargil hero Major Devender Pal Singh, who was left with an amputated leg after the conflict, ran the last lap with the Victory Flame in Drass sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday on the occasion of Vijay Diwas. Major Singh was the target of a Pakistani mortar bomb during the Kargil war. The flame […]

WhatsApp Pay coming to India later this year

WhatsApp Pay coming to India later this year

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all set to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service for over 300 million users — especially the small and medium businesses (SMBs) — in India sometimes later this year, its Global Head Will Cathcart announced here on Thursday. WhatsApp launched a test run of its payments service with one million users in […]

Sindhu, Praneeth march into Japan Open quarters

Sindhu, Praneeth march into Japan Open quarters

 Ace Indian shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and B. Sai Praneeth entered the quarterfinals of the ongoing Japan Open after winning their respective second-round matches of the $750,000 tournament, here on Thursday. In women’s singles, fifth-seeded Sindhu had to fight it out against Ohori as she came back from a game behind to register a 11-21, 21-10, […]

IIT Kanpur inks pact with Ericsson to tackle Delhi pollution

IIT Kanpur inks pact with Ericsson to tackle Delhi pollution

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) on Thursday entered into a partnership with Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson to deploy Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) to monitor air pollution in Delhi. “With support from Ericsson, we will develop and deploy India’s first NB -IoT based low cost particulate matter sensors at multiple locations across […]

ICC chief Manohar got contentious payment from Amrapali

ICC chief Manohar got contentious payment from Amrapali

Anil Kumar Sharma, CMD of Amrapali Group of Companies, paid Rs 36 lakh to ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar and this falls under the category of misuse of funds paid by home buyers, said the Supreme Court in its judgement on Amrapali Group. Manohar’s name features on the list of third parties who received money from […]

Aishwarya Rai joins Madame Tussauds Sydney!

Aishwarya Rai joins Madame Tussauds Sydney!

The former Miss World will reside in the new ‘Lights, Camera Bollywood’ experience for a limited time only, so fans are encouraged to visit her before she jets off!               Can you spot the real Aishwarya? Hi res images available here Sydney, Australia, Wednesday 24th July 2019 – Former Miss World and Bollywood […]