Day: March 16, 2019

TRS prez to kick off LS poll campaign from Karimnagar

Hyderabad : TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will kick off his campaign for the Lok Sabha polls with a public meeting at Karimnagar on Sunday. Karimnagar has been a stronghold of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) since the party’s formation in 2001. Rao had represented […]

11 dead as SUV falls into gorge in J-K’s Ramban

Banihal/Jammu :  Eleven people, including four women and five children, were killed and four others injured when an SUV skidded off a road and fell into a deep gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The SUV, carrying 15 passengers from Chaderkote to Rajgarh, […]

President confers Padma awards

New Delhi :  Folk Singer Teejan Bai, Larsen and Toubro chairman Anil Kumar Naik, scientist S Nambi Narayanan, actor Manoj Bajpayee and 106-year-old environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka were among the 54 noted citizens conferred the Padma award by President Ram Nath Kovind here on Saturday. Teejan Bai and Naik received […]

J-K GUV condemns New Zealand mosque shootings

Jammu :  Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Saturday condemned the shooting at two mosques in New Zealand, saying the whole world should stand united in the fight against terrorism. “This heinous act is an attempt to spread fear and hatred and there can be no justification for […]

SP fields Shyama Charan Gupta from Banda LS seat

Lucknow  :  The Samajwadi Party Saturday announced the name of its one more candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. A party release issued here said that Shyama Charan Gupta will be its candidate from Banda Lok Sabha seat. The party had Friday declared five candidates for the Lok […]

India continues to work with UNSC sanctions committee to list Azhar as global terrorist: Sources

New Delhi :  India continues to work with the UN Security Council sanctions committee on the listing of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist and will show patience on the issue, official sources said Saturday, days after China blocked a proposal at the world body to ban the JeM […]

Jury rules Apple owes Qualcomm $31M for patent infringement

SAN DIEGO  — A jury has decided Apple should pay $31 million in damages for infringing on patents for technology owned by mobile chip maker Qualcomm that helps iPhones quickly connect to the internet and extend their battery life. The verdict Friday in a San Diego federal court […]

Netflix will cut ‘Bird Box’ footage months after outcry

NEW YORK  — Netflix will remove footage of a real fiery train disaster from its hit post-apocalyptic survival film “Bird Box” months after the streaming giant was criticized for exploiting a tragedy. The stock footage was taken from a 2013 crash in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic when […]

Tyson will return to TV after sex misconduct probe

LOS ANGELES  — Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to the air on two TV shows that had been put on hold for a sexual misconduct investigation. The National Geographic Channel said in a statement Friday that Tyson’s “StarTalk” will return to the air in April with the […]

New Zealand shooter steeped attack in dark internet culture

SAN FRANCISCO  — The suspected New Zealand shooter carefully modeled his attack for an internet age. He live-streamed the massacre, shouted out a popular meme slogan and published a long, rambling manifesto replete with inside jokes geared for those steeped in underground internet culture. All that makes Brenton Harrison Tarrant, […]

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