Wednesday is likely to be a warm day with no rainfall in Delhi, going by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast. The maximum temperature is likely to touch 35 degrees Celsius, while the minimum will be 26 degrees Celsius. In an update on Tuesday, the IMD said conditions were favourable for the withdrawal of…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday launched the monthly incentive scheme of providing Rs 5,000 to 1,744 barbers of various temples under the ambit of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department across the State. The move, which fulfils yet another assurance of the government, entails an annual…
Sonam Kapoor, who is currently in London, took to social media to wish her friend and brother-in-law, Karan Boolani on his birthday. The actor posted a series of family pictures along with a heartfelt note. The pictures shared by Sonam features Karan with her husband Anand Ahuja, father Anil Kapoor, mother Sunita…
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Tuesday shared an image from her get-together with colleagues Anil Kapoor and Urmila Matondkar. The actor had shared a picture post on Twitter recently with a caption that read, “With my dear ones @AnilKapoor and @UrmilaMatondkar. Bahut saara pyar (Lots of love).” In the picture,…
Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has announced the development of three new chickpea varieties with traits like enhanced drought tolerance, disease resistance, and high yield, that will soon be available to Indian farmers. Developed through Genomics-Assisted…
Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours. Facebook blamed its outage, which kept its 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as…
Recently, Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare display of emotion, urged the German electorate to embrace the country’s diversity to forge a common future. With party leaders unlikely to form a coalition government anytime soon, Merkel will hold her position until a consensus has been reached. However, for all intents…
Military tensions with China are at their worst in more than 40 years, Taiwan’s defence minister said on Wednesday, days after record numbers of Chinese aircraft flew into the island’s air defence zone. Tensions have hit a new high between Taipei and Beijing, which claims the democratic island as its own…
Veteran actor Arvind Trivedi, who played the role of Ravan in Ramanand Sagar’s 1987 iconic TV series Ramayan, passed away at the age of 82. Trivedi was suffering from age-related illnesses. He suffered a heart attack on Tuesday night. Trivedi’s nephew Kaushaubh Trivedi confirmed the actor’s death to “Arvind…
On the day when the Punjab and Haryana High Court advanced the hearing in the Punjab drugs case to October 13, Advocate Navkiran Singh of Lawyers for Human Rights International, who is pursuing the case in the court, said that there was no restriction placed on the Punjab government by the HC that stops it from taking…