Day: November 21, 2019

Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa embarks on 4-day state visit to India

Rajapaksa clan stages comeback in Lanka, President Gotabhaya swears in his brother Mahinda as PM

8:01 pm November 21, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s powerful and controversial Rajapaksa clan on Thursday tightened its grip on political power with President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa administering oath to his elder sibling Mahinda as the new prime minister, amidst apprehensions among the minority Tamils and Muslims in the island nation. Mahinda assumed duties in his new capacity on Thursday itself. The […]

Four Congress MLAs in Kerala censured by Speaker

7:17 pm November 21, 2019

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan on Thursday censured 4 opposition Congress MLAs for climbing on to his dais and raising slogans during a protest. The incident occurred on Wednesday during a protest by Congress-led UDF MLAs against the police lathicharge on Palakkad legislator Shafi Parambil and some Kerala Students Union activists during a march […]

NCPA to celebrate 50 years with multi-genre festival

7:13 pm November 21, 2019

Mumbai: The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) will celebrate its 50th year with multi-genre performances across genres like theatre, dance, music, stand-up acts and much more at the ‘NCPA Add Art Festival’. The festival, starting from November 29, will celebrate the five decades of NCPA working towards preserving and promoting India’s rich and […]

Shabana Azmi injured in accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Shabana Azmi to pen a memoir

7:07 pm November 21, 2019

Mumbai: Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Thursday revealed that she is working on her memoir. She joins the ever-expanding list of film personalities to pen down the most important moments of their lives and career in a book. “I am writing my memoir but it is too early to talk about it,” Azmi told PTI. […]

AP ropes in IIM-Ahmedabad to check graft in govt depts

ISB Mohali starts global prog for women entrepreneurs

7:04 pm November 21, 2019

Chandigarh: Bengaluru-based artist Madhu Chandrika, who custom designs and creates theme-based murals, is among the women entrepreneurs who expanded their businesses after undergoing a programme for businesswomen. Chandrika, a first-generation entrepreneur who started her business from a garage, gives credit to the Indian School of Business and Goldman Sachs for helping her scale up business […]