TEHRAN, Iran — Before Nazilla Akbari can check out the latest offerings on Twitter or YouTube, she scrolls through an array of icons on her smartphone, searching for the right workaround to bypass state censors. It’s a cat-and-mouse game that has become second nature in Iran, where the […]
LONDON — With Britain’s departure from the European Union due in less than 100 days, new Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man in a hurry. But he’s not rushing off to Brussels. The U.K. leader has no meetings scheduled with EU officials. Instead, he was in central […]
Los Angeles, Jul 26: Singer-actor Jennifer Lopez will essay the role of real-life notorious Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco aka ‘The Godmother’ in a new film. Titled “The Godmother”, the movie will be produced by Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina and Julie Yorn, reported Deadline. The project marks […]
Paris, Jul 26: President Emmanuel Macron has invited new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to see him in France “in the next few weeks,” an official at the Elysee palace said. Macron extended the invitation in a call late Thursday to Johnson from his official summer vacation residence in […]
Mumbai, Jul 26: Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty opened on a cautious note on Friday tracking weak global cues, amid sustained foreign fund outflow. The 30-share index was trading 3.11 points or 0.01 per cent higher at 37,834.09 at 0945 hours; and the broader Nifty was […]
Lucknow, Jul 26: BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday attacked Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his sexist remark against MP Rama Devi in the Lok Sabha, saying he should not only apologise in Parliament but to all women. “The indecent language used by Azam Khan, an SP MP from […]
New Delhi, Jul 26: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the municipal bodies why the city was still not clean despite their claims that they are making all efforts to keep the national capital’s streets and colonies free of garbage and other waste. “Why is Delhi still not […]
New Delhi, Jul 26: Dismissing the Opposition’s claim that his party engineered defections to bring down the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka, BJP working president J P Nadda said on Friday that it fell due to internal reasons and asserted that his party would provide a stable government in the […]
Chennai, Jul 26: Reminiscing India’s victory in the 1999 Kargil war fought against Pakistan, a colonel said fighting in the war was a god-given opportunity as many soldiers retire without seeing action. Colonel K V Madhusoodan, who was with 108 medium regiment, one of the three artillery regiments that […]
Thrissur, Jul 26: Well-known poet and translator Attoor Ravi Varma died here Friday, his family sources said. Varma, 89, was under treatment for age-related ailments. One of the pioneers of modern Malayalam poetry, Varma is a recipient of the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry […]
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