After touching de Kock's feet, the fan also hugged him before security guards chased and escorted him off the field. However, the fan left his slipper behind which de Kock grabbed and threw off the field....

MS Dhoni with his new jeep. While fans were waiting for former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's arrival at the local JSCA Stadium, which is hosting the third and last Test between India and South Africa, Ranchi's favourite son was busy riding his new Nissan Jonga on the streets of the...

MUMBAI : The salaried income tax payer in India often feels cheated. "What are my taxes being used for," he often asks himself. The roads continue to have potholes. The traffic never ends. The public transport system never seems to expand fast enough. The healthcare system is non-existen...

"There's no greater joy for me than spending time with my precious, Shahraan & Iqra. I love you both. Happy birthday, #ProudDad", wrote Sanjay Dutt....

A court here on Monday awarded life sentence to a man accused of mowing down a girl in 2010 for spurning his advances. Principal, District & Sessions Judge, Srinagar, Abdul Rashid Malik sentenced Mohammad Shoaib Darial to imprisonment for life for killing Romana. The state legal services authori...

As the most prestigious prize in the field, the announcement of the Nobel prize in economics is an annual milestone moment for economists. But last week's announcement, which awarded the prize to economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer was particularly remarkable. It dive...

Mumbai, Oct 21: A 25-year-old actress from the Marathi film industry and her newborn baby died within hours in Maharashtra's Hingoli district on Sunday apparently due to unavailability of ambulance, a police official said on Monday. Relatives of the deceased actress, Pooja Zunjar, claimed sh...

The Pakistan military has rejected as "false" the Indian Army's assertion that it targeted at least three terror camps in PoK and said India is welcome to take any foreign diplomat or media to the site to "prove" its claim on the ground....

A trainer aircraft on Monday skidded off the runway while landing at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) in Fursatganj of Uttar Pradesh's Amethi. The pilot jumped off the aircraft to save himself, sources said. ...

Bengaluru: One person was injured in a mild-intensity explosion at the Hubballi railway station in Karnataka on Monday. According to local police, the incident took place due to a major procedural lapse by the Railway Protection Force (RPF). According to police, the incident took place when the RP...

Of all days during an election campaign, the day of voting rules the roost when it comes to symbolism. Monday, when Haryana went to polls for the assembly elections was no different with leaders trying to woo voters at the last minute. While Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar used the humble bicycle...

Rajnath Singh New Delhi: The Defence Ministry on Monday cleared acquisitions worth over Rs 3,300 crore for the Indian Army including Made in India anti-tank guided missiles for taking out enemy tanks.The defence acquisition council, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, approved three p...

Maharashtra witnessed lower voter turnout compared to the 2014 assembly elections. The voter final voter turnout stood at 60.46 per cent, 3 per cent down than the figures of 63.13 per cent of 2014. Karvir assembly constituency in Kolhapur registered the highest voter turnout at 83.20 per cent, whil...

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Switzerland Vice President Simonetta Sommaruga on Monday called on Union Railway and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss ways to boost cooperation between the two nations and to modernise railways. Sommaruga met Piyush Goyal in the rail bhawan here on Monday. In a ...

Bigg Boss 13 fans might have expected double eviction this week. However, to everyone's surprise, only one contestant has been eliminated. Music composer Abu Malik had to leave the house after Salman introduced an interesting twist. Salman Khan declared Paras Chhabra safe. After that the six girls h...

Traders in Noida are fearing a decline of up to 50 per cent in sales during the Diwali festive season due to "unethical business" of e-commerce firms, and the government should intervene to check these companies, Sushil Kumar Jain, convener of the Delhi-NCR unit of CAIT said....

​A 25-year-old actress from the Marathi film industry and her newborn baby died within hours in Maharashtra's Hingoli district on Sunday apparently due to unavailability of ambulance, a police official said on Monday. ...

Lucknow/Kochi, Oct 21: A moderate turnout of nearly 57 per cent was reported on Monday in the bypolls to 51 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states, while voters braved heavy rains in Kerala where streets were inundated and water entered some polling booths. Uttar P...

I am 34 years old and I want to invest for my retirement . I earn ₹1.5 lakh per month and I am unmarried. My monthly expenses are ₹60,000. I don't have any dependants or long-term goals . How should I determine how much money I will need as my retirement corpus ? Also, suggest differen...

The Centre on Monday asked the Supreme Court for three more months to finalise and notify rules for regulating social media in India, PTI reported. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told the court that internet had become a potent tool for causing "unimaginable disruption t...

By Osagie Otabor, Bénin Septuagenarian Sir Victor Uwaifo stole the show at the opening ceremony of the 32nd edition of the National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST) being hosted in Edo State. Sir Uwaifo who is the first musician to become a university Professor thrilled guests and particip...

Even as a dharna by a district-level committee of residents, Awara Pashu Sangharsh Committee, entered its 39th day in Mansa on Monday, Punjab minister for revenue, rehabilitation and disaster management Gurpreet Singh Kangar, some Congress leaders and those from other political parties met members...

By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki - Mohammed Toyin Jimoh Sanusi - and one other be remanded in prison following their arraignment on charges of forgery and conspiracy. Justice Okon Abang or...

Minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad. New Delhi: India on Monday launched a scathing attack on Pakistan for suspending postal mails exchange, with Minister for Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad saying it has been done unilaterally and without prior information, in contravention o...

Traders in Noida are fearing a decline of up to 50 per cent in sales during the Diwali festive season due to "unethical business" of e-commerce firms, and the government should intervene to check these companies, Sushil Kumar Jain, convener of the Delhi-NCR unit of CAIT said. ...

By Sanni Onogu, Abuja Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday denied that bandits allegedly shot at a Kaduna bound train about a week ago. Amaechi, who was answering questions from members of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Marine Transport, during budget defence. He said ...

Kohli has now enforced follow-on eight times, while Azharuddin did it on seven occasions followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni (5) and Sourav Ganguly (4)...

New Delhi, Oct 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday highlighted the steps taken by his government to improve the ease of doing business in the country when members of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) called on him. The prime minister also referred to the evolving start-up e...

Maharashtra and Haryana will go for Assembly polls on 21 October. The exit polls on Monday, 21 October, predicted an emphatic return to power by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in both Maharashtra and Haryana.Victories by such margins will be historic in both states since, in Haryana, the...

Image used for representational purposes.  The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) finally released its 'Crime in India 2017' report on Monday, 21 October - with no mention of 'lynchings'. However, what does make its way into the report is a separate section on 'C...

Devotees aspiring to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur through the corridor to attend the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak are upset over delay in online registration by the Union government. Government officials on Sunday said the online registration of devotees visiting ...

Maharashtra and Haryana went to polls on 21 October. Maharashtra and Haryana went to polls on Monday, 21 October, both states riddled with unemployment, job cuts in auto sector, water crisis, rural distress, and so on and so forth.Both states are BJP ruled and for the Congress and opposition partie...

On polling day in Maharashtra, a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) worker on Monday threw ink on an electronic voting machine (EVM) at a polling booth in Thane district. As the man, Sunil Khambe, was being taken away by police, he shouted slogans against EVMs, demanding they be replaced by ballot papers. H...

Panghal beat Tunisia's Boughanmi Bilel 4-1 in the men's 52kg category as the boxers continued to impress....

Ayushmann Khurrana.  Ayushmann Khurrana has been roped in by UNICEF and the Government of India to raise his voice against sexual abuse of children.An industry insider told Hindustan Times that Ayushmann is very happy to be part of the cause. "Ayushmann wants to do his best to help th...

By Agency Reporter The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says " there is no gain without pain", Nigerians must endure the temporary effects of the borders closure to reap the attendants benefits. The minister stated this on Monday when he paid a working visit to t...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met the members of US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) at his official residence in New Delhi. The USISPF delegation was led by its Chairman John Chambers. During the meeting, PM Modi appreciated the delegation for reposing faith in the Indian Econom...

India are slated to play Bangladesh in three T20s and two tests in November. The second Test will be held at the Eden Gardens between November 22-26....

Pugalia said this was the most boring election ever as there was prior consensus on the outcome. The first Assembly elections after the Bharatiya Janata Party's landslide win in Lok Sabha elections this year have concluded. All major exit polls indicate a comfortable win for the National Democ...

Jammu and Kashmir: The recruitment process for the Territorial Army battalion ended on Monday which saw the participation of a large number of youth from various districts of Jammu and Kashmir, including Baramulla. Chinar Corps of Indian Army posted a tweet saying that the candidates not only came...

Zetwerk, a business-to-business marketplace for custom manufacturing, is in talks to raise $35 million as part of its series B equity financing round, led by venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital, said two people close to the deal, requesting anonymity. Founded in...

MUMBAI : Private equity firm Advent International-backed Manjushree Technopack Ltd has outlined a strategy to increase sales through acquisitions, a senior executive said. In October 2018, Advent International acquired a majority stake in the rigid plastic packaging maker in a transaction that val...

According to the figures released by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the states of Maharashtra and Haryana recorded a turnout of above 60 per cent each until 6 pm with an interim voter turnout of 60.05 and 65 per cent respectively. The turnout for both the states is lower compared to the pr...

Jaipur, Oct 21 (IANS) The Rajasthan government on Monday approved the proposal for increasing the cost of Kalisindh Thermal Power Project (Unit 1 and 2) in Jhalawar district from Rs 9,479.51 crore to Rs 9,680.03 crore and issued directions to take action against officers and firms which delayed th...

Nadal will play Davis Cup as world No. 1, a position he will claim as of November 4, while Bautista will be ranked No. 10, Carreno (35), Lopez (62) and Granollers (113)....

Born and schooled in Kerala's Kottayam, Stanley enrolled in St Stephen's College in Delhi for an undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 2010. A "sweet and jovial" guy who used to "pull everyone out of sadness" - is how friends of Alan Stanley, a professor at St Stephen&a...

A leopard entered a wheat godown in Baldevnagar area of Ambala city creating panic among the locals, police said on Monday. A woman noticed the leopard hiding in the wheat husk late on Sunday night and locked the godown's door, they said....

Debuts were handed out to several new signings, including Asamoah Gyan, Raphael Augusto and Ashique Kuruniyan but the teams couldn't be separated at the end the riveting contest....