Day: May 21, 2019

Indonesian leader condemns France attacks, Macron's comments

Indonesia’s Joko Widodo wins second term as president

3:42 pm May 21, 2019

Jakarta: Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has been re-elected as president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, the elections commission said early Tuesday, beating rival Prabowo Subianto, a retired general who has vowed to challenge any victory for the incumbent leader. The commission was expected to announce the official results of the April 17 poll on Wednesday in […]

JERC issues tariff orders for UTs

3:36 pm May 21, 2019

New Delhi: Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) – the power regulator for Union Territories has issued nine tariff orders for 2019-20, which were held up due to imposition of model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls. Tariff orders are prescribed rates of electricity for various categories of consumers including domestic ones. The tariff orders including multi-year annual revenue requirement […]

Stop it! Japan anti-groper app becomes smash hit

3:31 pm May 21, 2019

Tokyo: A Tokyo police smartphone app to scare off molesters has become a smash hit in Japan, where women have long run the gauntlet of groping on packed rush-hour trains. Victims of groping can activate the Digi Police app, which either blasts out a voice shouting “stop it” at top volume, or produces a full-screen SOS message — which victims can show other passengers — reading: “There […]

Will run our offices from outside Delhi CM's residence from Monday: Mayors

Kejriwal dials Akhilesh to discuss post-results strategy

3:27 pm May 21, 2019

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal talked to Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav over phone on Tuesday to discuss the strategy to be followed after the announcement of the Lok Sabha poll results on Thursday. Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh told reporters here that the two leaders held talks over phone. Singh also met Yadav in Lucknow and discussed the […]

Joshua Jackson joins ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ cast

3:23 pm May 21, 2019

Los Angeles: Actor Joshua Jackson is set to star opposite Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere”. Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller of the same name, “Little Fires Everywhere” follows the intertwined fates of the perfect-looking Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jackson will play Bill Richardson, […]