The two-day India trip of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken – his first after the Biden administration took over in January this year – beginning July 27 comes four months after Defense Secretary L...
Two days after Home Minister Amit Shah met Chief Ministers of the northeast states at Shillong, fresh violence broke out at the disputed Assam-Mizoram border on Monday (July 26).
Bollywood director Zoya Akhtar posted a photograph of the swanky blue convertible used in her hit road movie, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, on her Instagram page, which carries a message – “Time to take the car out again”.
Mirabai Chanu, the weight lifter from Manipur, who made India proud by winning the first silver for the country in the sport at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, stands a chance of winning the gold in the women’s 49 kg category as the winner, China’s H...
The step down of BS Yediyurappa as the chief minister of Karnataka on Monday has raised a flurry of sharp taunts from the Opposition camp against the BJP.
Hours after Yediyurappa announced his resignation, Congress leader and former chief minister...
Pa Ranjith’s 'Sarpatta Parambarai' is being received well not only for its story and casting, but also for documenting Tamil Nadu politics of 1970s on celluloid. This is probably one of few movies in the Tamil film industry, which weaves in real political parties such as the two Dravidian majors – the DMK and AIADMK – into the story.
Putting months of speculation to rest, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday (July 26) bid a tearful adieu while announcing his resignation.
Informing that he will resign after lunch, Yediyurappa, who broke down while speaking, said he...
The Tokyo Olympics 2020 began without crowds in the stands, but fans are making the most of social media to cheer up their sports heroes! At times, however, the enthusiasm goes awry and ignorance about the sporting events results in goof ups, witness...
When earth does not provide enough, it is human to look up to the heavens. Heralded as the birth of NewSpace, these ventures by starry-eyed new age billionaires, including Musk’s SpaceX, are seen as the advent of space tourism as a commercial venture. With a ride costing about USD 250,000, it is reported that already 600 firm bookings have been made by these three enterprises. But space missions are more than just tourism to space as resources on earth are fast dwindling. Click here for more.
Food delivery aggregator Zomato made a memorable debut in the stock market on Friday (July 23) as its share prices soared 51.3 per cent.
The stock’s issue price was ₹76 when it opened at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at ₹115. By the time th...
Shares of cash-strapped Vodafone Idea plunged as much as 10 per cent to ₹8 per share post the verdict. Bharti Airtel was trading over 1 per cent higher at ₹552 apiece on the BSE
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: 'Yes, Amazon workers did pay for this – with lower wages, union busting, a frenzied and inhumane workplace, and delivery drivers not having health insurance during a pandemic'
The eight-time former champions looked completely off colour from the first whistle and the team’s backline was put under relentless pressure by the Australians
India’s boxing star MC Mary Kom defeated Dominican Republic’s Miguelina Hernandez Garcia in the Round of 32 match at the Olympics. The six-time world champion, who won a bronze medal in 2012 London Olympics, defeated Garcia, who i...
Tokyo: India’s badminton star PV Sindhu on Sunday beat Israel’s Ksenia Polikarpova to make a dominating start to her Olympic campaign in the women’s singles group J match here.
The 26-year-old Indian, seeded sixth, beat the 58th ranke...
The Olympics began at the nearly empty National Stadium after a year-long delay due to the pandemic. The event lacked the usual glitz with fewer than 1,000 people in attendance, strict social distancing rules and signs calling on spectators to “be quiet around the venue”
State-run Xinhua news agency reported that during his visit, Xi stressed upon fully implementing the guidelines of the ruling Communist Party for "governing Tibet in a new era and writing a new chapter of lasting stability and high-quality development for the plateau region".
Tokyo: Kentaro Kobayashi, the show director for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, was sacked by the organising committee on Thursday for a decades-old joke cracked by him on the...
While Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin welcomed Centre’s decision to exempt Goods & Services Tax (GST) on medicines for rare diseases such as spinal muscular dystrophy, some of the demands put forth by people with spinal injuries have gone unnoticed so far.
Modern parents are well-versed with this fact: physical punishment is bad for children and can only cause more behavioural problems over time.This was driven home once again in a comprehensive study published by the reputed medical journal 'Lancet' on Monday. (June 28)
We saw it coming and yet we decided to ignore it. A latest global study indicates that Indians have suffered maximum damage to vision because of increased screen time, courtesy COVID-induced lockdowns.
Following the guidelines of the National Education Policy (NEP), engineering degree courses will now be made available in five regional languages with the All India Council for Technology Education (AICTE) preparing content for six more languages.
