New Delhi: Ending all the speculations, Sports Ministry on Thursday confirmed the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for ace Indian shooter Ronjan Sodhi.Sodhi, two-time world champion in double trap shooting, was selected for India’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, by the selection committee. Later on, Khel Ratna selection panel member Anjali Bhagwat […]
Though he had been to many notable roles in his short career,Fahad Fazil had never been cast in the role of a police officer. The talented actor will soon don the role of an investigative officer in the new movie titled as ‘One by Two’. This new movie from Arun Kumar Aravind will be a […]
Koch: The Kerala High Court on Friday granted bail to Tenny Joppan and Shalu Menon in connection with the solar scam. The order in this regard was issued by Justice SS Sateeshchandran on the bail pleas of the two accused. While Tenny Joppen has to execute a bond for Rs 50,000 and two solvent sureties […]
The Rupee surrendered some of its early gains but is trading up by 11 paise to 64.44. This follows selling of the US currency by banks and exporters amid recovery in the equity markets. The rupee resumed 25 paise higher at 64.30 rupees per dollar against the yesterday’s closing level of 64.55 rupees. Forex dealers […]
New Delh: The central government has temporarily put on hold to make Aadhaar number mandatory for transfer of subsidy amount into the bank account of a LPG gas cylinder subscriber of oil companies. This was informed by Union Minister Rajeev Shukla. Once the new system comes into force, the entire subsidy would be transferred into […]
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh cleared the national sports awards file on Thursday without making any changes in the list finalised by the committee headed by former World billiards champion Michael Ferreira. The Sports Department Secretary had recommended the name of Kerala-based volleyball player, Tom Joseph, for Arjuna Award after his exclusion from […]
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said, the use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a crime against humanity and there is no time to lose in investigating an alleged attack which the opposition says killed hundreds. Ban described reports of the incident near Damascus on Wednesday as very alarming and shocking and urged the […]
Newdelhi: India and Iraq today agreed to enhance cooperation including in oil production, exploration and in joint ventures in diverse areas. President Pranab Mukherjee held talks with the visiting Iraq Prime Minster Nouri Al Maliki this morning.President Mukherjee said, with the emergence of democracy in Iraq relations between the two countries are entering a new […]
Islamabad: Pakistan again violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector, in Jammu and Kashmir late yesterday by targeting Indian forward posts in Balnoi sector. Defence Spokesperson Col. R.K. Palta told AIR News that Pak troops started unprovoked firing in Balnoi Battalion area of Poonch district at around 7.20 p.m last night […]
Newdelhi: The Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today suspended 12 members of the House for obstructing the proceedings on Telangana issue. Eight members are from the Congress and remaining four from Telugu Desam party. Mrs. Kumar named the members under Rule 374(A) of the House proceedings which empowers the Speaker to automatically suspend a member […]