Kolkata, 22/11: In a big development, former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir officially left Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Lucknow Super Giants to rejoin Kolkata Knight Riders, a team with which he won two titles as skipper. KKR’s CEO Venky Mysore announced the decision on Wednesday, assigning the role of a mentor to Gambhir. The Knight…
New Delhi, 26/5: Newly appointed Lt Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena on Thursday spoke about recent incidents of communal riots in the city and recited a poem to give a message of love and peace, asking people to let go of violence. Saxena in his address to media after taking oath as…
New Delhi, 16/8: After the decision to close the airspace by Afghanistan, Air India has clarified that its operation for Kabul will be stalled. In such a situation, Air India’s flight from Delhi to Kabul (Delhi To Kabul Air India) which was earlier scheduled to fly at 12:30 pm instead of 8:30 pm, will no…
Bangalore, 30/5: Enforcement agencies made seizures totalling over Rs 305 crore in poll-bound Karnataka since the model code of conduct came into force on March 29, the Election Commission said on Sunday. The total seizures (Rs 305.43 crore) include cash (Rs 110 crore), liquor (Rs 74 crore), gold and silver (Rs 81 crore), freebies (Rs…
Tripura, 15/11: Two Odia women journalists, who were arrested over their social media posts on the recent communal incidents in Tripura, were Monday ordered to be released on bail by a magistrate’s court. Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, journalists with HW News Network, were named in an FIR at Fatikroy Police Station in Tripura on…
Angul: In yet another incident of man-animal conflict, an elderly man was killed in an elephant attack in the Daturagarh forest range in Odisha’s Angul district on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Sambhunath Pradhan (62). According to reports, Shambhunath had gone to the nearby forest this morning to get some leaves for fodder…
New Delhi, 24/8: India has “successfully” conducted the maiden flight tests of an integrated air defence weapon system (IADWS) off the coast of Odisha Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the developer of the platform, and the armed forces on the flight tests.
New Delhi, 21/6: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought to assuage fears about the ‘deletion’ of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from the NCERT textbooks and said “nothing of this sort has happened.” Pradhan was speaking at an event at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Maharashtra’s Pune city on Tuesday.
Mumbai: Salman Khan is sure that his next film, Sikandar, will be a huge success. At the trailer launch of the film in Mumbai, he announced that the action thriller would cross Rs. 200 crore at the box office, regardless of its quality. Salman’s filmography features a string of commercially hit films, with quite a…
Kashmir, 20/4: At least 15 people were killed after a bus rolled down a hill in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur on Monday, April 20. The accident also left 20 people injured, and condition of many of them is said to be “serious”. According to the officials, the accident took place when the bus was negotiating…
