Day: June 21, 2020

Cloudy skies hamper viewing of annular eclipse in Delhi

5:27 pm June 21, 2020

New Delhi: As clouds shrouded the skies in the national capital on Sunday, there was no clear view for sky gazers of the annular solar eclipse, wherein the Sun appears like a ring of fire. The annular phase began at 10.19 am and ended at 1.58 pm. The eclipse was at its peak at 12.01 pm. The […]

Cobain ‘MTV Unplugged’ guitar sells for sky-high $6 million

5:14 pm June 21, 2020

California: Grunge became gold Saturday as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana’s 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance months before his death sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction. The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band’s rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was sold to Australian Peter Freedman, owner of Røde Microphones, at the […]

Woman arrested for trying to sell newborn in Delhi

54-day old assaulted infant still in critical condition

5:07 pm June 21, 2020

Kochi: The 54-day old infant, allegedly slapped and thrown on a cot at home by its father at a town in Kerala, continues to be in critical condition at a hospital, police said on Sunday. The child, admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital at nearby Kolencherry after the attack on Thursday, […]

Ansel Elgort accused of sexual assault, actor denies claims

5:02 pm June 21, 2020

Los Angeles: Awoman has accused “Baby Driver” star Ansel Elgort of sexual assault when she was a minor, a claim the actor has dismissed saying “her descriptions of events is simply not what happened”. The woman, who identified herself as Gabby, released a lengthy statement on Twitter Friday with the caption ‘My story with Ansel Elgort’, detailing the alleged […]

Whitney Cummings responds to sexual harassment allegations against former co-star Chris D’Elia

4:57 pm June 21, 2020

Los Angeles: Actor-comic Whitney Cummings has broken her silence over allegations of sexual harassment against her former collaborator Chris D’Elia, saying she is “devastated and enraged by what I’ve read and learned”. Cummings and D’Elia worked on her 2011 series “Whitney” . D’Elia starred as Alex Miller, the boyfriend to her titular character, a role that she had said she wrote […]