New Delhi: A visibly upset Prime Minister Narendra Modi left the Lok Sabha on Wednesday as opposition members created a din demanding the sacking of minister V.K. Singh. After some 40 minutes of uproar, during which Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's repeated requests to the protesting MPs to calm down fell on deaf ears, Modi left the house. The opposition MPs said...
Los Angeles: Actresses Brie Larson and Saoirse Ronan will be honoured with Santa Barbara Film Festival's Outstanding Performer of the Year Award. "This is an incredible year for emerging talent to take center stage and showcase their abilities. We've long been following the careers of Brie and Saoirse and their recent roles as empowered young women transcend time, place and circumstance,"...
Los Angeles: Actress Courteney Cox has ended her engagement with rocker Johnny McDaid, whom she was engaged with for about 17 months. According to tmz.com, the former "Friends" star broke up with the Snow Patrol member shortly before Thanksgiving. McDaid proposed to Cox in June 2014 after six months of dating. The couple was last seen indulging in public display...
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday executed four terrorists for their involvement in last year's attack on a school in Peshawar. "Four militants involved in the Army Public School attack were hanged in Kohat district prison on Wednesday," a Peshawar security official as saying. This is the first time that convicts of a deadly terrorist attack were executed. Army chief General Raheel...
Patna: Senior Janata Dal-United legislator Vijay Kumar Choudhary was unanimously elected the speaker of the Bihar assembly on Wednesday. Choudhary, a former minister, is a legislator from Samastipur district's Sarairanjan assembly constituency. "Choudhary is elected unopposed as he was the only one who had filed the nomination for the Speaker," Protem Speaker Sadanand Singh said. Chief minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief...
Brasilia: The Brazilian economy contracted 1.7 percent in the third quarter of the year over the previous quarter, signalling a prolonged recession. Gross domestic product (GDP) fell 4.5 percent year on year in the third quarter, government statistics agency, IBGE, as saying on Tuesday. In the first nine months, the economy contracted 3.2 percent compared with the same period in 2014....
Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth has extended his support to the rain-affected victims of Tamil Nadu by donating Rs.10 lakh to the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund. An official statement said the donation was paid through Sri Raghavendra Public Charitable Trust, owned by Rajinikanth. Actor Dhanush, son-in-law of the superstar, has donated Rs.5 lakh. Suriya and his brother Karthi have chipped in Rs.25...
London: Singer Ed Sheeran has become the second most streamed artist of all time with over three billion streams on the music website Spotify, overtaking Eminem, says a report. Sheeran is also the most streamed artist in Britain this year with over 59 million listeners selecting his music on the platform, reports. With Canadian Rapper Drake topping the list of the...
New York: Oil prices stabilised on Tuesday ahead of the OPEC gathering scheduled on Friday in Vienna. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh on Tuesday urged the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members to respect the shared production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, adding that the Iranian output is expected to increase next year when international sanctions...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the Tamil Nadu government has no suo moto power to grant remission and release the convicts accused of conspiracy in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The apex court constitution bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu said that the state government could grant remission and release the convicts only in consultation with the...
