New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has exposed her proximity with separatists by warning that if her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was split it would create more militants in the state.Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Mufti with her statement was "trying to give oxygen to terrorists"."Knowing or unknowingly she...
London, July 13 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were on their way on Friday from London to Pakistan, where they face immediate arrest in the Avenfield properties case.Upon their arrival at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport at 6.15 p.m., Maryam and Sharif will be arrested and will be taken to Islamabad by a...
Washington, July 13 (IANS) US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that President Donald Trump's administration's high tariffs against imports could be negative for the American economy."If it works out other ways, so that we wind up having high tariffs on a lot of products and a lot of traded goods and services... And that they become sustained for a...
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Microsoft on Friday introduced new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities in Microsoft 365 that will allow people in an organisation create live and on-demand events.Events can now be viewed in real-time or on-demand, with high-definition video and interactive discussion, the company said in a statement.Launched one year back, the adoption of Microsoft 365 has grown by...
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday hailed Hima Das who created history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win a gold at an IAAF event."Congratulations to our sensational sprint star Hima Das for winning the 400m gold in the World Under-20 (in Finland)... A very...
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Amid heightened trade tensions between the US and China, tech giant Apple has joined hands with its suppliers to launch a $300 million clean energy fund in China.The "China Clean Energy Fund" will invest in and develop clean-energy projects totalling more than 1 gigawatt of renewable energy in China, the equivalent of powering nearly 1...
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Flick through a debut novel that weaves a narrative around the changes in one's life with the arrival of a stranger; read the tale of a curious but mischievous child and his tryst with a teacher who is hell bent on setting him right; and finally relive a play that tells the story of the...
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha and Akshay Kumar on Friday congratulated Indian athlete Hima Das who created history by winning gold in the women's 400 metre event at the IAAF World U20 in Finland.Held at Tampere, Hima on Thursday registered a time of 51.46 seconds in the final at the Ratina Stadium to become...
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Actress Divya Dutta "suddenly" lost thousands of followers on Twitter.Divya, who currently has a following of 493,000 fans on the micro-blogging website, tweeted on Thursday night: "Aiyyo what happened Twitter... Sudden drop of thousands of followers in one hour!"This is not the first time a celebrity has lost followers on Twitter. In February megastar Amitabh Bachchan...
By Troy RibeiroFilm: "Soorma"; Director: Shaad Ali; Cast: Diljit Dosanjh, Taapsee Pannu, Angad Bedi, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Vijay Raaz, Mahabir Bhullar, Satish Kaushik; Rating: ***1/2Shaad Ali's "Soorma" is a remarkable story of hope and inspiration based on the life of Sandeep Singh, the former captain of the Indian Hockey team.Narrated from Harpreet Kaur's point of view, the film captures Sandeep's early...
