Day: September 7, 2019

Want to focus on music: Harry Styles shares reason for turning down ‘The Little Mermaid’

7:32 pm September 7, 2019

Los Angeles: Singer-actor Harry Styles has revealed that he was in talks with Disney to voice Prince Eric in the upcoming “The Little Mermaid” live-action remake, but said no to the offer because he wants to work on his music. In an interview with The Face, the former One Direction star said he is looking […]

Chhattisgarh yet to implement amended Motor Vehicles Act

7:28 pm September 7, 2019

Raipur: The Congress government in Chhattisgarh is yet to implement the new penalty provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act. Home Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu said on Saturday that the state government was studying the new amendments before they were implemented, so that people may not bear the brunt of the newly-introduced hefty fines. “We have been […]

South Korea calls for joint efforts with North Korea

Rajnath visits venue where Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in met

7:26 pm September 7, 2019

New Delhi: On the last day of his trip to South Korea, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited the demilitarised zone where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April last year, ending decades-long hostilities between the two neighbours. The defence minister held extensive talks with the top military […]

JNU sedition case: BJP youth wing members stage protest near Delhi CM’s residence

5:45 pm September 7, 2019

New Delhi: Members of BJP’s youth wing BJYM in Delhi on Saturday staged a protest near Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence demanding him to give prosecution sanction in the 2016 JNU sedition case. The Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists tried to move past a barricade near Kejriwal’s Flagstaff Road residence but were stopped by […]

Coronavirus: Vaishno Devi yatra closed, all interstate buses banned in JK

Vaishno Devi pilgrim dies of heart attack in J-K’s Reasi

5:27 pm September 7, 2019

Jammu: A 54-year-old pilgrim from Bihar died of a cardiac arrest after paying obeisance at the famous Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said on Saturday. Kedar Choudhary, a resident of Bihar’s Mannu Bahri village, collapsed near Bhairo Temple while returning from the cave shrine atop the Trikuta hills late Friday, […]