Veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon picked up a five-wicket haul as Australia defeated Pakistan by an innings and 48 runs in the second and final Test of the two-match series at the Adelaide Oval on Monday. With the win, the Aussies clinched the two-match series 2-0 and increased their victory tally in Day/Night Tests to 6-0. […]
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan skipped an app launch event in Mumbai on Monday afternoon, and speculations were immediately rife on whether the actor had given the event a miss owing to ill health. Bachchan, who has not been keeping well lately, was invited as one of the chief guests for the launch of an educational […]
In a pleasant surprise to fellow passengers, visiting Swedish royal couple King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrived in India on board an Air India commercial flight from Stockholm, and carried their own bags after landing at the airport here on Monday. “Very Proud moment for Air India when we had a Special Guest […]
More than 300 Donald Trump ads have been pulled by Google and its video-sharing platform YouTube for violating the companies’ policies. The campaign videos, notably, ran over the summer. This comes at a time when handling political advertisements on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 US presidential election approaches and tech […]
Actor Robert De Niro has come forward to defend the mostly silent role of Anna Paquin in the Netflix movie, “The Irishman”, saying it might be a small role but is very powerful. In Martin Scorsese’s over three-hour long “The Irishman”, Paquin says only seven words. “She was very powerful and that’s what it was,” […]
The Indian Railways’ operating ratio at 98.44 per cent in 2017-18 was the worst in the last 10 years, the national auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), said in a report tabled in Parliament on Monday. A measure of expenditure against revenue, the operating ratio shows how efficiently the railway is operating and how healthy […]
Sharp differences are emerging between various sects and seers over the model of the proposed grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. While the Vishwa Hindu Parishad is adamant that the temple should be built on its model, the secretary of the Ramalaya Nyas Mahant Avimukteshwaranand has said that once the plot of land is made available, […]
An ‘akhand kirtan’ (uninterrupted devotional singing) that began at ‘Bharat Tapasthali’ in Ayodhya last year on Diwali, is believed to be the one to have paved the way for the crucial November 9 Supreme Court verdict that finally gave nod for the construction of a grand Ram temple at the disputed site. The ‘kirtan’ will […]
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh is facing rapid erosion of his vote base among Dalits. While several Dalit leaders have left the party after the Lok Sabha debacle, BSP President Mayawati has also expelled a number of party leaders on frivolous grounds. The trend has also prevented leaders from other parties from […]
“The Tara Sharma Show” is all set to return and its host, actress Tara Sharma Saluja, says this time she will address wider family and societal issues with an aim to bring about positive change. The shoot for season five of the show started on November 25. Guests this time include actors Salman Khan and […]