Day: September 5, 2019

Women shine in India’s TIFF line-up

8:17 pm September 5, 2019

Toronto: Four new Indian titles – three of them world premieres – will be showcased in the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF ’19), which gets underway on Thursday. At one end of the spectrum is Shonali Bose’s Priyanka Chopra starrer “The Sky is Pink”, based on a true story about a couple whose 25-year […]

Farmer standing in queue for urea dies in Telangana

8:04 pm September 5, 2019

Siddipet/Hyderabad: Amid claims of urea shortage in Telangana, a 69-year-old farmer collapsed and died reportedly after suffering cardiac arrest while standing in queue for buying the fertilizer in Siddipet district on Thursday, police said. G Yellaiah, a native of Achimayipally village, went to the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society office at Dubbak and stood in the […]

Yaas: NDRF deputes highest-ever number of teams for Odisha, Bengal; over 10L evacuated

Heavy rain forecast in Odisha

7:59 pm September 5, 2019

Bhubaneswar: With heavy rain likely to batter many parts of Odisha till Sunday due to a low pressure area, the Meteorological Centre here on Thursday warned of possible flash flood and landslide in some hilly areas of the state. This is the fifth instance of heavy rains pounding Odisha under the influence of low pressure […]

Gold up Rs 83, silver climbs Rs 160

7:57 pm September 5, 2019

New Delhi: Gold prices on Thursday rose Rs 83 to Rs 39,271 per 10 gram in the national capital, according to HDFC Securities. In Delhi, the price of gold for 24 Karat (99.9 per cent purity) during the day rose to Rs 39,271 per 10 gram as compared with Wednesday’s closing price of Rs 39,188 […]

AP woman becomes mother at 74, delivers twins

7:42 pm September 5, 2019

Amaravati(AP): Having longed for over five decades to become a mother, a 74-year-old woman finally realised her dream by giving birth to twins in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. This, doctors feel, could be a new world record. The previous record was said to be held by a 66-year-old Spanish woman in 2006, according to the […]