By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai, Dec 27 (IANS) From a biopic on legendary southern actress Savitri to a hard-hitting film on caste-based discrimination and a moving drama centered on events that follow an untimely death, southern…
Los Angeles, Dec 27 (IANS) Singer Miley Cyrus and actor Liam Hemsworth are now reportedly married. They had originally planned to wed in their ocean-side home in Malibu before it was destroyed in a wildlife….
Baghdad, Dec 27 (IANS) US President Donald Trump visited the US troops in Iraq to celebrate Christmas, the official Iraqiya television reported on Wednesday. The state-run channel briefly said that Trump “denied any plans to…
Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s key economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Wednesday said that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is not in danger of being fired from that post after the president…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will have separate high courts from January 1 with the Centre issuing orders for bifurcation of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad. The orders, signed…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) While 15 miners continue to remain trapped in a flooded coal mine in Meghalaya for a fortnight now, the issue on Wednesday led to a political slugfest with Rahul Gandhi…
Hyderabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Three siblings from Telangana were killed in a devastating house fire in Collierville town in Tennessee in the United States, according to the family. The missionary students were identified as Sathwika…
Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Wednesday raised to 430 the death toll in the devastating tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption in Sunda Strait, while nearly 22,000 people were displaced. Indonesian National Board…
Karachi, Dec 26 (IANS) Former Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Syed Ali Raza Abidi was shot dead here by unidentified assailants and his bodyguard was arrested by the police on Wednesday. Two armed men on…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) From showing a pregnant woman in her early 50s at centrestage in a mainstream film to pretty faces of Hindi cinema being cast as characters celebrating their sexual…
Houston, Dec 26 (IANS) An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy has died in the US government’s custody in New Mexico state, immigration authorities said, in a second case this month of an immigrant child dying while being…
Pyongyang, Dec 26 (IANS) South and North Korea on Wednesday held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for an inter-Korean project to modernise and reconnect roads and railways across their heavily armed border. Officials from the UN…
Lucknow, Dec 26 (IANS) The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) has decided to file a petition in the Supreme Court in case the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre brings in an ordinance paving…
Mexico City, Dec 26 (IANS) No traces of explosives were found in the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed on Monday, causing the death of Puebla Governor Martha Erika Alonso, her husband Senator Rafael Moreno…
Los Angeles, Dec 26 (IANS) Authorities have arrested a 29-year-old man suspected of spray-painting swastikas on US President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, media reported. Jose Ortega of Los Angeles was…
Washington, Dec 26 (IANS) The partial US government shutdown entered its fourth day on Tuesday after leading to heavy losses in the securities markets and without any agreement in sight yet regarding the funds US…
Jakarta, Dec 25 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll in the deadly tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption in Sunda Strait to 429, with search and rescue teams struggling to find survivors…
Bhopal, Dec 25 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday expanded his cabinet inducting 28 ministers including Arif Aqueel, the lone Muslim face in the new council of ministers. Aqueel, MLA from Bhopal…
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday again tried to compare the treatment of minorities in his country and India, saying these communities would be treated as equal citizens in “Naya…
Lahore, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was shifted on Tuesday from a prison in Rawalpindi to the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, where he will serve the seven-year prison sentence handed…