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Ahead of I-Day, Pak-backed terror outfits go online to instigate Kashmiris

14 Aug 2020 04:41 AM IST

Ahead of 15 August, various terrorist outfits in the Valley are using cyber platforms on a large scale to vent their anger and post instigating messages for radicalisation and spread of new methodology for executing terror attacks. The ISI and Pakistan Army have been continually trying to poison the minds

Gehlot counters BJP, to bring confidence motion in Assembly

14 Aug 2020 04:40 AM IST

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has won his first big political battle in the state after becoming the CM, will soon prove his government’s majority in the Assembly. After meeting with legislators, the CM has made it clear that he will bring a confidence motion. Earlier, the BJP also

Becoming a student of the game called life

14 Aug 2020 04:12 AM IST

The National Education Policy 2020 realises the significance of integrating sports with classroom education for physical, psychological and social well-being of children. It is in this backdrop that we will seek synergies between the new policy, and the schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to dispatch the

Sadak 2 faces double trouble, most disliked trailer on YouTube

14 Aug 2020 04:02 AM IST

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt returns to the director’s chair with Sadak 2 after almost two decades but it looks like his journey is going to face a rough patch. The movie is a sequel to 1991 film Sadak and is set to release on Disney+Hotstar on 28 August. Since the death

Shilpa Raizada questions Bollywood for keeping mum on Sushant’s case

14 Aug 2020 04:01 AM IST

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death on 14 June came as a shock to everyone. With the saga getting murkier by the day, a lot of celebrities have also come out asking for a detailed investigation of the case. The latest to join the list is Jodha Akbar actress Shilpa Raizada,

Sushant’s loved ones deserve closure: Kriti Sanon

14 Aug 2020 04:00 AM IST

Mumbai: Actress Kriti Sanon has said that Sushant Singh Rajput’s loved ones deserve closure. “I pray that the truth comes out soon. His family, his friends, fans and all loved ones deserve this closure,” Kriti wrote on Instagram Story, seeking a CBI investigation. “I hope and pray that the CBI

Ayushmann welcomes SC verdict on daughters’ equal right to property

14 Aug 2020 03:56 AM IST

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who regularly raises his voice through his films on social issues in the country, has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict which says that daughters have an equal birthright to inherit property. “The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that daughters, like sons, have an equal birthright to inherit

When Ravi Shankar’s ‘filmy affair’ failed to make impact

14 Aug 2020 03:49 AM IST

Pandit Ravi Shankar’s initial tryst with cinema and how the legendary sitar maestro came to accept that he had been ‘innovative ahead of the times’.

Cracking a chess code

14 Aug 2020 03:48 AM IST

Author Nihshanka Debroy on his debut novel ‘Checkmate’ and how he thought of searching for the origins of chess from parallel viewpoints.

Books to look out for this week

14 Aug 2020 03:43 AM IST

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Sophie Hannah HarperCollins, Rs 319 Hercule Poirot— Agatha Christie’s legendary fictional creation— returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him

Boeing’s Arizona modification line yields first QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target

13 Aug 2020 06:46 AM IST

A team from Boeing and the US Air Force completed the first QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target to undergo conversion from a modification line in Arizona. The aircraft was flown last month to Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it will be used autonomously in future weapons training operations. The 309th

Sentinel-1C radar antenna spreads its wings for the first time

13 Aug 2020 06:46 AM IST

Fixed to a special device, simulating zero gravity conditions, the 12.3 metre wide and 860 kg SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) radar antenna of the Copernicus Sentinel1C satellite has successfully spread its wings at the Airbus Integrated Technology Centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for the first time. Sentinel-1C is the third of