Day: January 22, 2021

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Modi condoles death of singer Narendra Chanchal

4:01 pm January 22, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed anguish at the death of noted ‘bhajan’ singer Narendra Chanchal and said that he had carved a unique place for himself in the sphere of devotional song singing. Chanchal died at a private hospital here on Friday following some health complications, sources said. He was 76. […]

Hugh Grant in talks to join Guy Ritchie’s new movie

3:52 pm January 22, 2021

Los Angeles: British star Hugh Grant is in negotiations to board filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s next, starring Jason Statham in the lead. If finalised, the movie, which was earlier titled ”Five Eyes”, will mark a reunion between Ritchie and Grant after they worked together on 2019 movie ”The Gentlemen”. As per Deadline, Ritchie will direct the new project from a screenplay by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Statham will star […]

MNS urges RBI to set up panel to resolve transporters’ woes

3:47 pm January 22, 2021

Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)chief Raj Thackeray on Friday urged the Reserve Bank of India To set up a high-power committee to look into the woes of transporters reeling under financial burdens. In a letter to RBI governor Shaktikanta Das, Thackeray Claimed that several banks were not following the Centre’s Guidelines of observing leniency while […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Sri Lanka approves vaccine amid warnings of virus spread

3:41 pm January 22, 2021

Colombo : Sri Lanka has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be used against COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that frontline health workers should be quickly vaccinated to stop the system from collapsing. Minister for Pharmaceutical Production and Regulation Channa Jayasumana said the British vaccine has been approved for emergency use, the first to be approved in Sri Lanka, while several other candidates […]

EC to cement unit in Surat can’t be sustained until concerns addressed: NGT

3:36 pm January 22, 2021

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal Friday said the environmental clearance (EC) granted to a cement grinding unit in Surat cannot be sustained until all environmental concerns are duly addressed. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel said the object of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is to ensure that all concerns affecting the environment are duly taken care of which […]