Day: October 15, 2019

Keeley Hawes to star in ‘Finding Alice’

7:12 pm October 15, 2019

Los Angeles: Keeley Hawes is set to play the title role in “Finding Alice”, a dark comic drama set at ITV. The series will see the “Bodyguard” star in the role of a woman who loses her husband in a freak accident only to find he has left her to unravel a trail of secrets, […]

‘House Arrest’ to premiere on Nov 15 on Netflix

7:09 pm October 15, 2019

Mumbai: Ali Fazal and Sriya Pilgaonkar-starrer “House Arrest” will debut on Netflix on November 15, the streamer announced on Tuesday. Directed by Shashanka Ghosh and Samit Basu, the film is about a man, who trapped in his own fears, locks himself at home, only to find that while he can restrict his interaction with the […]

Sensex spurts 292 pts; auto, metal stocks drive rally

7:03 pm October 15, 2019

Mumbai: Extending its gains for the third consecutive session, market benchmark BSE Sensex rallied about 292 points on Tuesday driven by gains mainly in auto, metal and banking stocks. After soaring 421 points during the day, the 30-share Sensex ended 291.62 points, or 0.76 per cent, higher at 38,506.09. It hit an intra-day high of […]

Flipkart expands benefits for sellers under 'Growth Capital' programme

Flipkart ups ante against Amazon; to set up unit for food retail in India

7:01 pm October 15, 2019

New Delhi: E-commerce giant Flipkart on Tuesday said it is setting up a new local entity – Flipkart Farmermart – that will focus on food retail in India, as it looks to take on arch-rival Amazon in the segment. According to sources, Flipkart is expected to invest about Rs 2,000 crore initially in the business […]

Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

Syria offensive to continue until ‘objectives achieved’: Erdogan

6:58 pm October 15, 2019

Istanbul: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey’s operation against Kurdish militants in northern Syria would not stop until “our objectives have been achieved”. Turkey is in the seventh day of its assault against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which it sees as a “terrorist” off-shoot of Kurdish insurgents in its own […]