- India
Adani Group to buy 49% in Quint; media company’s shares up over 9%
New Delhi: Adani Group’s unit AMG Media Networks will buy a 49 percent stake in Raghav Bahl-run digital business news platform Quintillion Business Media for an undisclosed sum, a regulatory filing to the…
- Technology
‘I’m a bot & so’s my wife’, says Musk amid Twitter takeover drama
New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk who is busy finding fake/spamming accounts and bots on the micro-blogging platform thinks he himself is a bot, and so is his wife. Annoyed at the…
- Technology
India tablet market set to grow up to 12% this year
New Delhi: Driven by resurgent demand, the India tablet market grew 68 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while 4G tablets recorded a sequential growth of 74 per cent YoY in the first quarter…
- Middle East
43-year-old Palestinian dies of wounds after being shot in West Bank
Ramallah: A 43-year-old Palestinian died of injuries he sustained during an Israeli raid last week in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, medics have confirmed. Dawoud Zubeidi was shot during the…
- India
Karnataka man held for slapping, kicking female lawyer
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police have arrested an accused in connection with a brutal attack on a woman lawyer in Bagalkot district, the police said on Monday. The video clip of the attack containing…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra woman village volunteer stabbed to death
Amaravati: A woman village volunteer has been brutally murdered in Andhra Pradesh’s Bapatla district by a man, with whom she had extramarital relations in the past. D. Sharada, 27, was stabbed to death…
- Andhra Pradesh
Ex-Andhra minister’s daughters, son-in-law get anticipatory bail
Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has granted anticipatory bail to two daughters and son-in-law of former minister P. Narayana and some others in the Class 10 question paper leak case. Narayana’s daughter…
- India
Bharatiya Kisan Union splits, Tikait brothers ‘removed’
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has split with a breakaway group, claiming to be the ‘real’ organisation, appointing Rajesh Chauhan as the new chief. Naresh Tikait has been removed from the…
- Andhra Pradesh
Cop dies by suicide in Andhra Pradesh
Amaravati: A police constable allegedly died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district on Monday. The incident occurred at the Armed Reserve (AR) police quarters at Etcherla in Srikakulam district. AR constable…
- Middle East
Israeli SC rejects 4 petitions against Jerusalem cable car
Jerusalem: Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected four petitions that seek to block a controversial plan to build a cable car network to East Jerusalem’s Old City, the court said in a statement.…
- Entertainment
Popular Bengali actress Pallabi Dey found dead at Kolkata flat
Kolkata: Popular actress of Bengali television serials, Pallabi Dey, was found dead on Sunday under mysterious circumstances at her rented accommodation in South Kolkata where she used to stay with her friend…
- Middle East
Mired in crises, Lebanese vote in parliamentary elections
Beirut: Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese flocked to polling stations across the country to vote in the parliamentary elections amid a severe economic crisis. The Internal Security Forces were deployed outside and inside…
- World
Kim issues special order on medicine supply against COVID-19 outbreak
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rebuked officials for failing to deliver medicine to its people in time amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and ordered the mobilisation of military personnel to stabilise…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Employees plan massive march over demand to scrap CPS
Vijayawada: Government employees in Andhra Pradesh plan to organise a massive protest march to press their demand for scrapping the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). Leaders of Andhra Pradesh Contributory Pension Scheme Employees Association…
- World
UN warns of worsening drought in Horn of Africa in four decades
Nairobi: The United Nations top relief official has warned of the worsening drought in the Horn of Africa region which has already affected more than 18 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and…
