Mumbai: Facing prospects of his bungalow in Mumbai being auctioned to recover unpaid loans, Bollywood actor Sunny Deol has offered to settle all outstanding dues, prompting state-owned lender Bank of Baroda to drop auction proceedings for the property. The lender issued a statement on Monday, saying that Deol has offered to settle the dues, hours…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was among nine MPs who took the oath as members of the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The oath was administered by Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in the Rajya Sabha chamber in Parliament House. Jaishankar took the oath in English. This is his second term as a Rajya Sabha MP. He…
Hyderabad: As promised the state Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday released his party first list of candidates for the upcoming assembly polls. KCR looks confident of his party returning to third consecutive term and set a sort of history. This despite, fears over some non-performing sitting MLAs, whom he thought of replacing, but…
New Delhi: K L Rahul, albeit with a rider, and Shreyas Iyer were on Monday named in India’s squad for the Asia Cup beginning August 31 while highly-rated young batter Tilak Varma earned a maiden call-up to the one-day format. There were question marks over the fitness of Rahul and Iyer, who are making a comeback…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of acting under the pressure of its ally DMK as it slammed the Karnataka government for releasing 10 TMC water from Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu. Addressing a press conference, Union minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar said large parts of Karnataka have been hit by drought and the Congress…
New Delhi: The CBI has closed its case against Adani Enterprises and a former National Cooperative Consumer Federation chairman for alleged irregularities in the award of a contract for supplying imported coal to the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation, officials said. The central agency has filed before a special CBI court the closure report in…
Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there was an era of “corruption and scams” before 2014 and the rights of the poor and their money were robbed, but now every penny is reaching into their accounts directly. The data shows an increasing number of people are paying taxes, which shows their faith in the…
Sharad Pawar, the Maratha-strong man who is a ‘master strategist’ in cobbling up alliances among political parties, appears losing his credibility in politics, thick and fast. He might have succeeded in forging a grand tie-up between his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress and the hard-core Hindutva proponent, the Shiv Sena, by forming the Maha…
Mumbai: Director Amit Rai says he wanted everyone to watch his latest release “OMG 2” in theatres, a wish that remained unfulfilled after the CBFC cleared the film with a few modifications and an ‘A’ certificate. The Hindi movie, starring Pankaj Tripathi and Akshay Kumar in the lead, explores various issues concerning teenagers, including sex education….
Mumbai: Actor Tiger Shroff on Sunday said he has completed filming for his upcoming movie “Ganapath: Part 1” and described it his “biggest and most challenging film yet”. Touted as India’s first dystopian action thriller, the film is directed by “Queen” helmer Vikas Bahl. The first part of “Ganapath” will be released in cinemas on October…
