Image Source : FILE Congress's Salman Khurshid, Brinda Karat named in Delhi riots chargesheet for giving 'provocative speeches' Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid, including Udit Raj and CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat have been named in the latest chargesheet filed by the ...

SP Balasubrahmanyam Death: The legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away today, September 25 at 1:04 pm due to coronavirus. The multiple National award-winning singer got admitted to MGM Healthcare on August 5. He got recovered as SPB's son Charan tweeted his father's health update. However, ...

Princess Eugenie is pregnant with her first child. The member of the Royal family and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, just announced that they are expecting their first child. The Royal family took to social media to announce the news and also shared a picture from the couple's wedding. They shared th...

After six months of shutdown due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Southern Railway will resume train services from Chennai to Kerala and Karnataka on Sunday. The move to resume train services to Trivandram, Mangaluru and Mysuru from Chennai comes after the railway board approving the request for the same. ...

Scores of farmers gathered on a key road in Noida in Uttar Pradesh in a protest demonstration on Friday, prompting deployment of police in riot gear that kept them from proceeding towards Delhi. Around 150-200 farmers were at the Noida Gate in Sector 14A near Chilla, at the UP-Delhi border, where t...

When he won his first national award for the Telugu film 'Shankarabarnam'(1979), singing for the film's protagonist- a Carnatic musician- Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam confessed that he had never learnt Carnatic music. When he won his second national award for 'Ek Duje Ke Liye'(1981), h...

Playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam died on Friday at a hospital here where he was treated for COVID-19 since last month, his family said. Singer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam had tested positive for Coronavirus and was admitted to hospital in the first week of August. Following health deterioration on Au...

Financial losses incurred as a result of COVID-19 are twice what they were during the “Great Recession” of 2008.According to International Monetary Fund projections, the global economy will lose$12 trillion, or more, by the end of 2021, in the wake of the pandemic.The Institute of Health...

Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam aka SPB breathed his last today (September 25). He was 74. SPB had worked as a singer, actor, music director, dubbing artist and film producer in multiple languages. Some of his most famous Hindi songs include Hum bane Tum Bane, Pehla Pehla Pyaar, Dil Deewana, Wa...

New Delhi/Patna: The Election Commission of India on Friday announced the schedule for the Assembly Elections in Bihar. The polling will be held in three phases on October 28, and November 03 and 07. The counting of votes will be taken up on November 10 for all three phases and results are expected ...

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the restructuring of SAIL's board, the steel ministry said in a statement on Friday. The restructuring of the board will bring in greater efficiency, and decentralisation in the company, it said. "The Appointments Committee of t...

Jaipur: The Congress on Friday termed the agriculture-related bills introduced by the Centre as a 'disgusting conspiracy' against the farmers of the country and said it stands firm with them in support of the Bharat Bandh call. At a press conference here, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjew...

Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar reviewed progress of the Pune Metro Rail project on Friday morning, a district official said. Pawar, who is also Pune district's guardian minister, visited the Wheel Park depot in Kothrud and inspected ongoing construction of a metro tunnel at Shiv...

Kochi, Kerala: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi on Friday convicted Subahani Haja Moideen, who allegedly fought for the Islamic State (IS), for supporting the activities of the terror outfit. The special NIA court will pronounce the quantum of sentence in the matter on Mo...

Sunil Gavaskar occupied the top spot on the trends list on Friday after Twitter managed to misquote a line that he said while commenting on the Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab match during the ongoing Indian Premier League on September 24. For Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat...

Legendary Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam Passes Away at 74: Music maestro SP Balasubrahmanyam is no more. He passed away today at 1:04 pm on September 25 at the MGM Healthcare hospital in Chennai. He was 74. SP Balasubrahmanyam was suffering from COVID-19 and got admitted to the hospital on August 5. On...

With 11 more fatalities, the Covid-19 death toll in Assam surpassed 600-mark and the state has registered 2,091 new coronavirus cases for the new virus in last 24 hours. According to state health department, 11 more persons aged between 38 years to 85 years died due to Covid-19 infections at differe...

New Delhi: A record 14,92,409 tests have been conducted for detection of COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, taking the total tests done so far in the country to nearly 7 crore, while the national cumulative positivity rate stands at 8.44 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. The Tests Per...

Thousands of peasants took to the streets all over Maharashtra on Friday raising slogans, carrying banners and posters to protest against what they termed as "the anti-farmers" law recently passed by Parliament. The agitation has been supported by the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party,...

New Delhi: India on Thursday said that disengagement at the LAC is a complex process that not only requires redeployment of troops by each side towards their regular posts but also needs mutually agreed reciprocal actions. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that while...

Hyderabad: In a suspected case of honour killing, a 28-year old man was allegedly abducted and murderedfor marrying a woman belonging to a different caste, policesaid on Friday. Nine people suspected to be involved in the case are incustody. According to police, relatives of Avanthi Reddy'forcibly'...

DU Admission 2020: Attention students, the St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, has released the application forms for postgraduate admissions on its official website. The admission forms were released on September 14. Registered candidates and those who have been shortlisted on the basis of Mer...

SP Balasubrahmanyam breathed his last at 1.04 pm at MGM Healthcare hospital in Chennai. His son, SP Charan, spoke to the media from the hospital and said that the hospital will release further details. SP Balasubrahmanyam was battling with Covid-19 for over a month and tested negative on September 1...

SP Balasubrahmanyam was undoubtedly one of the greatest singers the Indian sub-continent has ever produced. There was an undeniable soul in his singing, which resonated across different musical genres, languages and moods, earning him a pan-Indian appeal. Having sung more than 40,000 songs in 16 lan...

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Anirban Bhaumik, Over 7.29 crore people of Bihar are expected to cast votes between October 28 and November 7 next to elect 243 members of the state legislative assembly in the first direct polls of the country in the Covid-19 era. The Election Commission (EC) announced the schedule of the assembly...

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday announced dates for the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. The polls will be held in three phases starting from October 28, and the counting of votes will happen on November 10. With the announcement of poll dates, the Model Code of Conduct has com...

In what the Election Commission of India has termed as the "biggest election during COVID-19 pandemic so far", the state of Bihar will go for a three phase poll, starting October 28. The counting of votes will take place on November 10. Over 7.29 crore voters will cast their votes acros...

Legendary singer S P Balasubrahmanyam died today in Chennai. He was 74. The celebrated singer was paid rich tributes by politicians and celebrities across the country....

Singer and actor SP Balasubrahmanyam breathed his last at the MGM hospital in Chennai. The 74 year old singer was being treated for multiple health complications after he got himself admitted following coronavirus infection. The hospital had released a health bulletin last night confirming the news...

Voicing support for the Bharat Bandh call given by farmer organisations to protest the farm bills, the Congress on Friday alleged that the new agriculture laws will "enslave" farmers and claimed that the provision for Minimum Support Price (MSP) will be "snatched away" from them...

In half a century of watching cricket at Chepauk since the return of Test cricket to the hallowed venue in January 1967 I have never experienced the conditions that were prevalent in September 1986 during the Test between India and Australia. I have been in Madras that is now Chennai all my life an...

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking to postpone the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A three-judge bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M R Shah also refused to grant liberty to the petitioner to give representation...

Google Pay is a well-known online money transaction system used by millions of people daily to send and receive payments over UPI (unified payments interface). To use Google Pay you just need an Internet connection, an Indian bank account, and an Indian phone number. The Google Pay app has many laye...

A new music video titled 'Robinhood of Bihar' and featuring former Director General of Police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey has created quite a sensation on the internet. The music video titled 'Robinhood Bihar Ke' stars Pandey along with Deepak Thakur, singer, lyricist and composer of the song. A former ...

Bollywood drug scandal: There is a massive development in the drug case that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has picked up filmmaker Karan Johar's close friend and Dharma Productions' Executive Producer & Director Kshitij Ravi Prasad after drugs were found at his place during the raid. The Re...

New Delhi: For the soldiers on the Line of Actual Control, facing Chinese People's Liberation Army troops barely 300 to 500 metres away and those in posts on the Line of Control, new weapons are coming. Or rather, many more of the state of the art Sig Sauer 716 assault rifles that are coming in fro...

Kings XI Punjab‘s young spinner Ravi Bishnoi says head coach Anil Kumble has advised him to always stay calm and back his skills as a bowler. The 20-year-old Bishnoi snared three wickets in an emphatic 97-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier league (IPL) on Thursday n...

As far as their career is concerned, Class 12 remains a threshold for students with a lot of unanswered questions pondering inside their heads, leaving them confused. The most common notion that students have while deciding to choose the right career revolves around how to choose the right career, w...

New Delhi: The Election Commission is holding a press conference in New Delhi to announce the dates for the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. The voting to elect a fresh 243-member assembly is likely to take place in mid-October. “The term of assembly in the state of Bihar is due to expire...

A Delhi court on Friday took cognisance of the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal scam. On September 19, the agency had filed the charge sheet against 15 accused, including alleged middleman Christian Michel...

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Shah Rukh Khan began his journey in the entertainment industry with shows Dil Dariya and Fauji. Even though Dil Dariya was shot before, it faced certain delays in production. As a result, it was Fauji that became the actor's debut show since it went on air earlier. Shah Rukh Khan also hosted a few s...

NEW DELHI: India's efforts to privatise refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. could spill over into the next fiscal year, according to a government document and sources, hurting New Delhi's efforts to rein in a ballooning fiscal deficit. The privatisation of key companies, including BPCL, is a key pa...

After a longish wait, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday finally announced the poll dates for Bihar Assembly election 2020. The Bihar Assembly election will be held in three phases with several Covid-19 protocols in place. The results of the Bihar Assembly election will be declared on ...

The Election Commission has announced the dates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly Election. Bihar will go to polls on October 28. The counting of votes will be held on November 10. The number of phases for Bihar polls has been reduced to three phases, the CEC said. In the first phase, 71 assembly cons...

The Bihar election will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and 7 and the results will be announced on November 10, the Election Commission said today....

Dubai: Kings XI Punjab's young spinner Ravi Bishnoi says head coach Anil Kumble has advised him to always stay calm and back his skills as a bowler. The 20-year-old Bishnoi snared three wickets in an emphatic 97-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier league (IPL) on Thursday...