Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s bail hearing in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case which was scheduled for Monday, was adjourned to July 17. District and Session Judge Chandra Kumar Songara ordered the arguments to begin but Salman’s lawyer Mahesh Bora wanted some time. Heeding to his request, Songara adjourned the hearing till July 17. Salman was […]
Interacting with Karnataka’s BJP women cadres through his mobile app, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked them to popularise his government’s schemes ahead of the May 12 Assembly polls. “We need to expose the hollow promises made by the Congress and urge the people of Karnataka to join the journey of development,” Modi told […]
The Kilauea volcano, one of the world’s most active, has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii’s largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and an evacuation of 1,700 residents. The eruption on Wednesday affected Leilani Estates and the Hawaii County Civil Defence asked its residents as well as those residing in Lanipuna Gardens […]
The world knows him as Bollywood’s “Shahenshah”, but he prefers to be known as the son of late eminent poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he has been in public life from the day he was born, but has no legacy of his own to leave behind. The actor, who has successfully transitioned […]
Pratap Panda, chief of construction firm Panda Infra, was arrested on Friday, a day after the collapse of a portion of a flyover that killed a labourer and injured another. The company was constructing the Bomikhal flyover here. Panda was arrested under several sections of the Indian Penal Code including wrongful confinement and causing grievous […]
Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from the Jayanagar assembly segment, B.N. Vijaya Kumar, died here early on Friday, a party official said. He was 60. The two-time lawmaker was in the fray from the same constituency for the May 12 Karnataka Assembly elections. “Vijaya Kumar was admitted into a nearby hospital after he collapsed on Thursday […]
A civilian was injured in Pakistani shelling overnight on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Police said the Pakistani Army resorted to shelling and firing on the LoC in Tangdhar sector at 11 p.m. on Thursday. “Indian positions retaliated effectively. Intermittent shelling and firing exchanges continued till 4.30 a.m. on […]
Acclaimed Australian artist Jonathan Zawada to transform the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Sydney Sydney – Thursday 3 May, 2018. A 3D light sculpture housed within the iconic Sails of the Sydney Opera House will illuminate Utzon’s masterpiece from 6pm on Friday May 25 for Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. Award-winning Australian artist Jonathan Zawadahas […]
Minister for Multiculturalism Ray Williams presented Roanna Gonsalves with the Multicultural NSW Award at the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Roanna Gonsalves was gifted with $20,000 prize money for her published collection of 21st century immigrant stories titledThe Permanent Resident. Mr Williams congratulated Ms Gonsalves for her dedication to telling stories that educate and challenge us […]
· Pakistan maintain four-point lead in updated T20I table England have overtaken India to seize the top spot in the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings following the annual update while Nepal have rejoined the T20I ratings but will need to play one more match before they are ranked on the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Rankings. England’s […]