India ‘Red’ predictably completed the formalities polishing off the India ‘Green’ tail within half-an hour to win the inaugural Day/Night Duleep Trophy encounter by a comprehensive 219-run margin in Greater Noida on Friday. Starting the day at 217 for 7, the Green brigade were all out for 277 in 56.2 overs with skipper Suresh Raina hitting a quickfire 90 in a losing cause. Chinaman Read More

Outgoing Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday exuded confidence that his successor Urjit Patel will carry forward the work they began on taming inflation. “I am confident that Urjit Patel, who has worked closely with me on monetary policy for the last three years, will ably guide the Monetary Policy Committee going forward in achieving our inflation objectives,” Rajan Read More

Its a GIRL! Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira Rajput became proud parents to their first child, a baby girl on Friday. The girl was born at the Hinduja hospital in Khar around eight in the evening. Both mother and child are said to be doing well and in a healthy condition. Shahid himself took to Twitter to confirm the happy news. Mira Read More

Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle review, Amazon New Kindle, New kindle, New Kindle review, Amazon Kindle price, Amazon Kindle specs, Amazon Kindle India The number of e-books I’ve read can be counted in single digits. I’m an old school snob, who believes the charm of physical books is irreplaceable. And the fact that I can hardly ever concentrate for long when Read More

France, burkini ban, france burkini ban, france burkini, French court burkini, burkini ban, muslims, world news France’s highest administrative court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling. The Conseil d’Etat gave the ruling following a request from the League of Human Rights to overturn Read More

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Friday claimed a deadly suicide bomb attack on Turkish police in the southeastern town of Cizre that left 11 officers dead and wounded dozens more. “Our sacrifice team staged a comprehensive action action in Cizre that left dozens of police dead,” said the PKK, which is known for exaggerating tolls. In the statement on its website Read More

Four Bollywood stars made it to the Forbes’ list of world’s top 20 highest-paid actors and their names are Shah Rukh Khan (number 8 with $33 million in earnings), Akshay Kumar (number 10 with $31.5 million), Salman Khan (number 14 with $28.5 million) and Amitabh Bachchan (number 18 with $20 million). The list was topped by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Read More

A Flying Jatt movie cast: Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez, Gaurav Pandey, Amrita Singh, Kay Kay Menon, Nathan Jones A Flying Jatt movie director: Remo D’Souza A Jatt superhero who bumbles and fumbles? Who behaves like a little boy around his formidable ‘bebe’, and is all shy and tongue-tied around a hot babe? Who has, haha, a fear of heights? Sounds Read More

The genesis of the conflict lies in a campaign launched by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which works for empowerment of Muslim women, in the implementation of the Sachar Committee report. Before starting the campaign, activists of the group decided in June 2012 to offer prayers at the Haji Ali Dargah, a 585-year old shrine of Sayyed Peer Haji Read More

A BJP member of the Lok Sabha refused to take the US visa after he was asked to remove his pugree at the US Embassy for security reasons, asserting that his turban was a matter of his “traditional honour” which he cannot remove. Virendra Singh, a three-time Lok Sabha MP and presently representing Bhadohi (UP), said the US embassy had Read More