Jananayak Janata Party leader Dushyant Chautala, while addressing a press conference on Friday at his Janpath residence, said that JJP still has a key to a stable government and will be supporting those who can provide jobs for youth. “We haven’t spoken to any party as of yet. Our party’s main […]
Centre approves 18 roads on Indo-China border
Union minister of state for home affairs Kishan Reddy on Thursday, said that the central government has approved 18 roads stretching over 1,600 kilometers in Arunachal Pradesh to make the otherwise porous Sino-Indian border foolproof from infiltration from other side and to make patrolling easier. Speaking at the 58th Raising […]
5% DA hike for Bihar govt staff, pensioners
In a pre-Diwali gift for nearly seven lakh government employees and pensioners, the Bihar cabinet on Thursday hiked the dearness allowance component to 17% from the existing 12%. The enhanced DA would be effective from July 1. The decision would entail an additional burden of Rs 1,048 crore on the […]
Disha Patani turns into a superstitious Punjabi girl, fans ask if it’s Ekta Kapoor’s biopic
Actor Disha Patani has begun filming for her next film, titled KTina. The makers have released her first look from the film in which she is playing a religious, small town Punjabi girl. Her first look shows her joining her hands in a ‘namaste’. She is dressed in a printed night suit […]
Ghaziabad tops country’s pollution list, conditions to persist till Diwali
The Ghaziabad city on Thursday emerged as the most polluted city across the county with the air quality index (AQI) deteriorating to a value of 335 under ‘very poor’ category as per the figures released by the Central Pollution Control Board. The last time city’s AQI stood under ’very poor’ […]
Presidency alumni team to felicitate Abhijit Banerjee in January
The Presidency Alumni Association intends to confer the ‘Atul Chandra Gupta Distinguished Alumnus Award’ on Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee as he has agreed to attend the felicitation programme of the association in January next year, the organisation’s secretary Bivas Chaudhuri said on Thursday. Some members of the association […]
Jeff Bezos loses world’s richest man title to Bill Gates
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has lost the title as the world’s richest man, paving the way for tenacious Bill Gates to grab the top spot after Amazon’s lacklustre Q3 results resulted in Bezos losing nearly $7 billion in stock value. Amazon shares fell 7 per cent in after-hours […]
IIT Madras team develops simple technique to produce graphene platelets
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) on Thursday claimed its researchers have shown a simple route to producing graphene platelets from graphite. “They have found that when graphite is suspended in an appropriate fluid and subjected to intense shearing force of machining, the layers of graphite separate into graphene platelets,” […]
Alia Bhatt reacts to wedding rumours again
Ever since her fake wedding card went viral this week, actor Alia Bhatt is being bombarded with questions about her wedding at airports. Recently, yet another report in medias claimed that the wedding with Ranbir Kapoor may happen in November in France. On Thursday, as she was returning from her London vacation […]
42 malicious apps affected 8 million Android users
Security researchers have detected a massive year-long adware campaign where the involved apps were installed on users’ Android devices eight million times from Google Play alone. Slovak internet security company ESET identified 42 apps on Google Play as belonging to the campaign, which had been running since July 2018. Of […]
J-K Block Development Council polls: Independents bag 217 seats, 81 go in BJP kitty
As many as 217 block development council (BDC) seats in Jammu and Kashmir were won by independent candidates, 81 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and eight by the J&K National Panthers Party, chief electoral officer (CEO) Shailendra Kumar said on Thursday. He said 98.3% voter turnout was recorded, with all […]
‘Optimistic’, says Manohar Khattar ahead of Delhi meetings to bump up support for BJP
Manohar Lal Khattar is likely to return as Haryana chief minister with the support of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA Abhay Chautala, Haryana Lokhit Party (HLP) MLA Gopal Kanda and seven Independents. Khattar has flown to Delhi to hold discussions with those offering support and is aiming to complete […]
Akhilesh Yadav sees fresh trend as SP wins 3 seats in UP assembly bypolls
The Samajwadi Party (SP) won three of the 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, wresting Zaidpur from the BJP and Jalalpur from the BSP in the by-polls. While the Akhilesh Yadav led-Samajwadi Party gained two seats, the BSP lost its lone seat (to the SP) and the BJP […]
Brain strokes not an ‘elderly people’s disease’, hitting those below 45 increasingly
Once an “elderly people’s disease”, brain strokes are now hitting an increasing number of people below the age of 45, neurologists say, primarily holding the perils of modern-day lifestyles and substance abuse responsible for the medical emergency. And ahead of the World Stroke Day on October 29, they are calling […]
Kalpana Chawla used to say someday she’d be ‘kidnapped’ in outer space: Father
Eighty-six-year-old Banarasi Lal Chawla vividly recalls the day when he was strewing the ashes of his daughter Kalpana Chawla in the hills of Zion National Park in the US. Unexpectedly, he encountered an American woman sobbing uncontrollably as she also grieved the death of the Indian-American astronaut who was on […]