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  • Six held for cheating housewives in Manipur
    Imphal, February 21 (IANS): Members of a civil society organisation at Moreh -- the border town of Manipur -- on Thursday rounded up six persons hailing from Bihar on the charge that they cheated several w
    / 21st February 2019
  • Dhaka blaze: 4 kids among 70 dead
    Dhaka, February 21 (IANS) Seventy people, including four children and five women were confirmed dead on Thursday while 56 were reported injured in a massive blaze in the Bangladesh capital that engulfed sever
    / 21st February 2019
  • Trump bars woman who joined IS from US return
    Washington, February 21 (IANS) President Donald Trump has said that an Alabama woman who left the US in November 2014 to join the Islamic State (IS) terror group will not be allowed to return despite her publ
    / 21st February 2019
  • Modi unveils Gandhi bust, invokes his ideals to fight terror
    Seoul, February 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at the Yonsei University here and said we can find solutions to two biggest challenges facing humanity - te
    / 21st February 2019
  • India decides to stop water to Pakistan
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) India on Thursday decided to stop its share of water from the eastern rivers to Pakistan. "Under the leadership of (Prime Minister Narendra Modi), our government has decided
    / 21st February 2019
  • Swedish student leader wins EU pledge to spend billions on climate
    16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and Anuna De Wever, a Belgian climate student activist take part in a protest claiming for urgent measures to combat climate, in central Brussels, Belg
    / 21st February 2019
  • Jussie Smollett charged with filing false police report
    Actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with filing a false case. The Chicago Police on Wednesday reported that felony criminal charges had been approved against the "Empire" actor, who last month said that
    / 21st February 2019
  • Tripura Assembly Budget Session begins on Friday
    Agartala, February 21 (IANS): With the customary speech of the Governor, the week-long Budget Session of the Tripura Assembly will begin from Friday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath said here on
    / 21st February 2019
  • Raveena extends help for education of martyrs’ children
    Actress Raveena Tandon says her Foundation will look into the education of martyrs' children. Raveena spoke on the sidelines of the Nykaa-Femina Beauty Awards 2019 here on Tuesday. According to reports,
    / 21st February 2019
  • Kareena to front immunisation campaign, says women literacy vital
    Mumbai, February 21 (IANS) Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, who has been appointed ambassador for the Swasth Immunised India campaign, says educating the women will help in spreading awareness about the initiativ
    / 21st February 2019
  • Chris Hemsworth to play Hulk Hogan in biopic
    Actor Chris Hemsworth is likely to star as wrestling legend Hulk Hogan in a biopic which is in early stages of development at Netflix. The streaming platform has obtained the exclusive life rights and consu
    / 21st February 2019
  • Vishaka and Since: Some Reflections
    Naina Kapur * Once upon a time, facts amounting to sexual harassment did not socially exist let alone amount to a legal claim. Even the words sexual harassment never settled into the Indian legal lexico
    / 21st February 2019
  • Pakistani journalist launches #AntiHateChallenge condemning Pulwama attack
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS) Amid the hate and tensions, an independent Pakistani journalist, Sehyr Mirza, has begun an #AntiHateChallenge on Facebook, condemning the Pulwama suicide bombing in Jammu and Kas
    / 21st February 2019
  • Kim Kardashian sues fashion company
    Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has filed a lawsuit against an online retailer for using her name and image without permission to advertise their own designs. Kim on Wednesday filed a case against Missg
    / 21st February 2019
  • Indian garment workers take to the airwaves to demand better conditions
    Anuradha Nagaraj Thomson Reuters Foundation The caller broke down in tears as she described how she queued three times to use one of only two toilets provided for 200 garment employees at the spinning mi
    / 21st February 2019
  • Airtel tops in download speed during December-January: Report
    New Delhi, February 21 (IANS): Airtel ranked top among the telecom operators in the country in terms of 4G download speed with an average speed of 8.6 megabits per second (Mbps) during the December 2018-Janua
    / 21st February 2019
  • Samsung's foldable phone opens new frontier
    The Samsung Galaxy Fold phone is shown on a screen at Samsung Electronics Co Ltds Unpacked event in San Francisco, California, U.S., February 20, 2019 REUTERS/Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL, February 21
    / 21st February 2019
  • iOS users can now follow their favourite places on Google Maps
    San Francisco, February 21 (IANS): Apple users will now be able to stay up to date on their favourite places right from the Google Maps app on iOS, the Internet giant has announced. Users can search for a plac
    / 21st February 2019
  • ‘Sought lenders' approval to release Rs 260 cr to Ericsson’
    Mumbai, February 21 (IANS): Reliance Communications (RCom) on Thursday said it has requested for an 'urgent approval' from the company's lenders to directly release around Rs 260 crore from its bank account to
    / 21st February 2019
  • Pope promises "concrete" action against child sexual abuse by priests
    Pope Francis delivers a speech during the four-day meeting on the global sexual abuse crisis, at the Vatican, February 21, 2019, in this screen grab taken from video. CTV-ACCESS ALL via REUTERS VATICAN CITY
    / 21st February 2019
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