Mumbai: Actress Divyanka Tripathi, who says she is a mountaineer, says she is happy to keep her “adventurous passion going” even while doing a daily soap. She recently shot a "risky" sequence for the popular show "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein". The last few episodes of the show featured Ashok (Sangram Singh) trying to kill Raman (Karan Patel), while Ishita was seen...
New Delhi: Table-toppers FC Goa face fourth-placed Delhi Dynamos FC in the first leg of the first semi-final here on Friday with both teams aiming to take an initiative in the two-legged contest. The return leg is on December 15 in Fatorda, Goa. Defending champions Atletico de Kolkata and Chennaiyin FC will play in the first semi-final in Pune on...
New Delhi: The Indian economy, which is currently 50 percent digitized, is expected to reach 100 percent by 2020, a top official said on Thursday. The digital transformation is being fueled by rapid innovation in the technology space, said National Cyber Security Coordinator Gulshan Rai at the 3rd edition of the National CIO Summit organized by Confederation of Indian Industry....
New Delhi: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday said it would lend $1 billion to state-run Power Grid Corporation for expanding its transmission capacity in the country. "ADB is to provide a $500 million government-backed loan and a further $500 million in non-sovereign lending to India's national transmission company, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd," ADB said in a statement...
Agartala: A total of 345,427 cases were registered in the northeast for travelling without ticket or with an irregular ticket with Rs.21 crore being collected as fine in eight months of the current fiscal, an official said here on Thursday. "NFR (Northeast Frontier Railway) officials registered 345,427 cases of travelling without ticket or irregular ticket passengers. A total fine of...
By Deepak Goel New Delhi: A senior Madhesi leader has warned that delaying a resolution to the ongoing four-month-old agitation in the Nepal Terai could spell a serious danger for neighbour India which has an almost 1,100-km open border with the southern plains of the Himalayan nation. "New Delhi should be alert to elements inimical to Indian interests gaining ground...
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said 347 people were killed in the rains and floods since October 1, and 17.64 lakh people were rescued and housed in relief centres. The government also said in a statement that a total of 6,605 relief centres were opened in the state. The rains and floods also killed 3,889 cattle. Heavy rains...
New Delhi: A large number of research institutes as well as 80 private organisations are expected to participate in 'Arogya', a four-day fair on Indian systems of medicine, that begins in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. "Central research councils and national institutes in the 'Ayush' system of medicine along with National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB), Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Ltd...
Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has admitted for the first time that Pyongyang possesses a hydrogen bomb, state-owned media reported on Thursday. "The state managed to become a powerful nuclear power capable of defending its sovereignty and national dignity by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes," Kim as saying. Kim made the statement during a visit to Pyongyang's Phyongchon Revolutionary...
Kolkata: The International Cricket Council (ICC) wants two more dressing rooms at the Eden Gardens which will host the World Twenty20 final on April 3 next year, a senior Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) official confirmed on Thursday. Presently, the Eden Gardens has only two dressing rooms, one for the home and the other for the visiting team but as...
