Day: July 11, 2019

Online chess platform comes to India

8:10 pm July 11, 2019

Chennai: A US-based online chess platform chesskid.com Thursday launched its Indian edition under the mentorship of Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. Under Anand’s guidance, chesskid.com would release curated chess content and hold annual online competitions for India’s aspiring young chess players, the online platform said. “I will eventually curate content. I will also, maybe, decide what […]

Rai demanded Rs 50 lakh to keep his mouth shut: Indrani

Indrani Mukerjea turns approver in INX Media case

8:05 pm July 11, 2019

New Delhi: Jailed-media baron Indrani Mukerjea Thursday turned approver in the INX Media corruption case in which former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti are accused. Mukerjea, who was granted pardon in the case by the court on July 4, appeared before special judge Arun Bhardwaj and accepted the conditions put on her. […]

Delhi man stabs himself with knife after argument with family

13-year-old boy falls to death, suicide suspected

8:01 pm July 11, 2019

Mumbai: A 13-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the terrace of a multi-storey building in suburban Wadala Thursday, police said. Riyan Chakraborty fell to his death from the terrace of 18-storey Girnar Heights around 3.45 pm, a police official said. He was alone at home at the time of incident as his parents […]

Rains lash Chandigarh, parts of Punjab, Haryana

7:56 pm July 11, 2019

Chandigarh: Rains lashed some parts of Punjab and Haryana, including joint capital Chandigarh, on Thursday bringing down day temperature, a meteorological department official said. The maximum temperature in Chandigarh dropped a few notches below normal and settled close to 32 degrees Celsius after the heavy downpour on Thursday morning, the official said. The maximum temperature […]

Congress is not worthy of an alliance: H D Kumaraswamy

Mamata speaks to Kumaraswamy over Karnataka crisis

7:55 pm July 11, 2019

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked Karnataka’s HD Kumaraswamy to hold his ground and not give in to the efforts of the BJP, sources said Thursday. Banerjee, stung by defections herself with several of the Trinamool Congress MPs and MLAs joining the BJP, dialled the Karnataka chief minister last evening and […]