BENGALURU: Renowned author JK Rowling has received a death threat over a tweet condemning the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. The ‘Harry Potter’ author took to Twitter and shared screenshots of the threat from a user. Rushdie was stabbed in New York on Friday by a fanatic when he was about to deliver a lecture at […]
BENGALURU: Prominent investor and business magnate Rakesh Jhunjhunwala passed away in Mumbai on Sunday morning at the age of 62. Known as India’s Warren Buffet, he was suffering from a host of health issues, including kidney ailments, and had been discharged from the hospital a few weeks ago. Jhunjhunwala had an estimated net worth of […]
NEW DELHI: With the arrest of an Amritsar resident, Delhi Police Crime Branch has unearthed the main link to the Afghanistan-Punjab drugs nexus that was busted last month. Anti-narcotics task force (ANTF) unit of the Delhi Police crime branch has arrested Pankaj Vaid alias Sanju Baba, who the police described as the “main link” […]
Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha opened to poor response at the box office amid the boycott campaign against it on social media. The official remake of Hollywood’s Forrest Gump has garnered only Rs 19 crore in India in the first two days. The reviews of the movie are mixed and it’s hurtling towards becoming a […]
BENGALURU: The stabbing of prominent writer Salman Rushdie by a fanatic in New York on Friday has come as a rude shock for people across the world, drawing condemnation and public outcry. The 75-year-old Booker Prize laureate is currently on a ventilator battling for his life as he has copped severe nerve damage. The […]
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) has arrested a Saharanpur resident who was planning to carry out a suicide attack in India with the help of terrorists based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, it said on Friday. Muhammad Nadeem, a resident of Kunda Kalan village in Saharanpur’s Gangoh, was tasked by Pakistan-based terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) […]
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Independence Day celebrations, the Delhi Police have nabbed a gang of arms peddlers and recovered more than 2000 live cartridges in Anand Vihar area. During checking, in view of heightened security in the run-up to August 15, cops of East Delhi Police spotted two suspects with a trolley bag walking […]
NEW DELHI: Movie lovers can watch R Madhavan-starrer ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ in many multiplex theatres of Lucknow for free on Independence Day, August 15. The price of the ticket for nearly 2000 people in 11 movie theatres will be borne by the Lucknow district administration, it announced on Thursday. People can watch the movie […]
NEW DELHI: A contingent of the Indian Air Force (IAF) left for Malaysia on Friday to participate in a bilateral exercise named Udarashakti. Interestingly, this will be the first bilateral exercise between the IAF and the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). The IAF contingent will have Sukhoi-30 MKI and C-17 aircraft, while the RMAF will […]
NEW DELHI: Tricolour was hoisted at the house of Canada-based separatist Gurpatwant Pannun, who had exhorted Punjabis to unfurl Khalistan flag this Independence Day, in Chandigarh on Thursday. As per local media reports, Congress leader Gursimram Singh Mand from Ludhiana along with his supporters went outside the house of Pannun. They raised slogans hailing Mother […]