Bollywood News

The Deepika Padukone starrer CHHAPAAK is a brave attempt at highlighting an issue and the crime that exists in our society.

The number of acid attacks that have occurred over the years is alarming. What’s even more shocking is the lackadaisical attitude of the authorities in preventing such attacks and prevention of sale of dangerous substances. After all, such an act can destroy lives as it damages the face permanently. Bollywood has been attempting some brave […]

Politics

Coronavirus: Council funds to be shared ‘in fairest way possible’

Image copyright PA Media The latest tranche of emergency coronavirus funding for councils in England is to be allocated “in the fairest way possible”, ministers say. County councils will get 65% of the £1.6bn pot and district councils 35%, based on population size and local authorities’ specific needs. None of the money will be ring-fenced, […]

World News Live

Wealthy Norwegian Businessman Charged With Murdering Missing Wife

OSLO — Norwegian police arrested one of Norway’s wealthiest people on Tuesday and charged him with murdering his missing wife, the latest twist in a case that has riveted the country for more than 18 months. The man, Tom Hagen, 70, was charged with killing his wife, Anne-Elizabeth Hagen, who disappeared 18 months ago from […]

World News Live

Trump and Putin issue rare joint statement promoting cooperation

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two link-up of US and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate. The statement by Trump and Putin comes amid deep […]

Business

N.Y. Building Sites Reopen, Carefully, in Sign of Life Gearing Back Up

On the Far West Side of Manhattan, construction workers start every morning with a thermal forehead scan to take their temperatures. On service elevators at the high-rise development, they stand on floor markings to maintain social distancing. And when deliveries arrive, drivers stay behind the wheel while the haul is unloaded. City building inspectors often […]

Technology

HP Announces New Manufacturing Facility to Address Growing PC Demands

In another fillip to Make in India in the tough COVID-19 times, PC and printing major HP Inc on Monday announced it is expanding its manufacturing footprint in India with setting up a new facility in Chennai with electronics giant Flex Ltd. Flex will manufacture HP Desktops and Workstation PCs at the plant on a […]

Sports

Five-star PG Daishen Nix decommits from UCLA to join G League

Five-star point guard Daishen Nix is decommitting from UCLA and signing with the new G League pathway program, the league announced Tuesday. “I think it was the right thing for me because it was a family thing and a myself thing,” Nix told the Los Angeles Times. “Playing in G League is basically getting me […]

Technology

How Tesla and SpaceX worked with and paid each other in the past year

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images On Tuesday, Tesla revealed in a new SEC filing some of the ways that it works with CEO […]

Bollywood News

Bigg Boss 2 winner Ashutosh Kaushik gets married on his terrace amid lock-down : Bollywood News

This one is an uncommon rooftop wedding. Actor Ashutosh Kaushik, who was the winner of Bigg Boss 2 and also won the 5th edition of MTV Roadies, got married amid the national lock-down. The rather simple marriage ceremony took place on the terrace of his Noida residence, in the presence of only four people. The […]

Politics

Sara Britcliffe gives maiden speech in Parliament by video

A Conservative MP told the Commons about her mother’s alcohol and mental health issues in her maiden speech – the first ever to be delivered remotely. Sara Britcliffe was speaking in the Domestic Abuse Bill debate as she recalled her mother’s death and the effect on her family. She appeared on television screens in the […]