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Dance India Dance 6 winner Sanket Gaonkar: My goal is to become a profound choreographer in Bollywood

Dance India Dance 6 winner Sanket Gaonkar: My goal is to become a profound choreographer in Bollywood

Mumbai: Popular dance reality show Dance India Dance pulled the curtains down on its sixth season last night. The three hour long gala affair reached the climax when 20-year old Sanket Gaonkar from Karnataka’s small town of Ankola was announced as the winner. The show was judged my Marzi Pestonji, Mini Pradhan and Mudassar Khan, […]

Every Singaporean aged 21 and above will receive up to S$300 bonus, announces govt in 2018 budget

Every Singaporean aged 21 and above will receive up to S$300 bonus, announces govt in 2018 budget

NEW DELHI: The Singapore government Monday announced that all Singaporeans aged 21 and above will receive a one-time bonus of up to S$300 each. Described as “hongbao”, the bonus will be paid according to a person’s annual income. About 2.7 Singaporeans stand to benefit from the payout which will cost the government S$700 million. Finance […]

In kids’ DNA, study hunts link between their health and what their mothers ate years ago

In kids’ DNA, study hunts link between their health and what their mothers ate years ago

What a woman eats before and after her pregnancy is important for a healthy infant. Increasing evidence shows that nutritional interventions do make a difference. Just how that happens is now the subject of a multi-country study that aims to identify this link from maternal diet – through changes in DNA methylation – to later […]

Google Arts and Culture unveils 3D-printed vases

Google Arts and Culture unveils 3D-printed vases

MUMBAI: Google Arts and Culture on Monday unveiled 10 3D-printed ceramic vases at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) museum here to mark the culmination of its ‘Future Relics’ project — the first-ever lab experiment in India. The “Future Relics” project, which was announced in November 2017, blends ancient craft and modern technology to […]

Dare to ride this nine-story tall slide created by Belgian artist in Miami?

Dare to ride this nine-story tall slide created by Belgian artist in Miami?

Don’t most of us love going on swings and slides? And if we don’t have time for it, isn’t it a pleasure to see the little ones enjoying themselves as they slide down? Be it the simple slides found in children parks or the thrilling water slides in amusement parks — the rides are, more […]

Team India’s biggest problem in shorter formats: Choking at the death

Team India’s biggest problem in shorter formats: Choking at the death

Team India has enjoyed a stupendous run of form in their tour of the rainbow nation so far. Not only have they thumped South Africa 5-1 in the ODI series, but also gone on to register their ninth bilateral series victory. However, as the men in blue go from strength-to-strength and keep delivering near flawless […]

Secret Superstar Crosses 900-Crore Mark in China, Aamir Khan Calls For party?

Secret Superstar Crosses 900-Crore Mark in China, Aamir Khan Calls For party?

Aamir Khan‘s movie Secret Superstar might have made average business in India but it is getting all the love from the Chinese audience. Yes, the movie is a big hit in China and has even crossed 900 crore mark. Yes, you read it. The movie not only surpassed Aamir Khan’s Dangal in terms of opening […]

Rani Mukerji: I curse my husband every day, but out of love

Rani Mukerji: I curse my husband every day, but out of love

NEW DELHI: Rani Mukerji is coming back to the silver screen after a hiatus of four years. Titled Hichki, the Aditya Chopra film will see Rani in the role of a primary school teacher suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and how she deals with her involuntary spasms and hiccups. To promote her film, Rani recently appeared […]

J&K Council chief taps Pune firms for limestone, marble mining

J&K Council chief taps Pune firms for limestone, marble mining

PUNE: The Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Council Chairman has informally invited Pune companies to explore the possibility of extracting marble and limestone in Kargil district which has vast reserves of these natural stones. Haji Anayat Ali, who hails from Kargil district in the Ladakh region of the border state, recently met members of the Pune-based […]

Hyperloop to venture into Maharashtra, reduce Mumbai-Pune travel time to 25 minutes

Hyperloop to venture into Maharashtra, reduce Mumbai-Pune travel time to 25 minutes

NEW DELHI: The Richard Branson-led Virgin Group on Sunday signed a framework agreement with Maharashtra to build a hyperloop transportation system between Mumbai and Pune, which would reduce travel time between the two cities to just 25 minutes from the three hours at present. The system, which will also connect Navi Mumbai International Airport, will […]

After Nirav Modi, Rotomac Pen’s Vikram Kothari ‘flees’ with Rs 800 crore loan

After Nirav Modi, Rotomac Pen’s Vikram Kothari ‘flees’ with Rs 800 crore loan

NEW DELHI: After billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi, another defaulter Vikram Kothari, the promoter of Rotomac Pen, has also allegedly gone abroad after swindling Rs 800 crore from various public sector banks, including Allahabad Bank, Bank of India and Union Bank of India, sources said. The Kanpur-based company’s owner had taken a loan of more than […]

Bankers discuss recovery, banks want PNB to pay up

Bankers discuss recovery, banks want PNB to pay up

MUMBAI: Banks, which have an exposure in the Rs 11,400-crore fraud at Punjab National Bank, are insisting that the latter should pay up as the letters of undertaking (LoUs) were issued by PNB to Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi companies. The Indian Banks Association (IBA), which met here Saturday, discussed the PNB issue and the […]

Indian-origin illegal moneylender jailed in UK

Indian-origin illegal moneylender jailed in UK

LONDON: An Indian-origin businessman who ran an unauthorised money-lending service in the UK has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after being found guilty of crimes under the country’s financial regulations. Dharam Prakash Gopee, charged under the the UK’s Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, has also been […]

Stop blaming Pakistan for failures in Afghanistan: Gen Bajwa to US

Stop blaming Pakistan for failures in Afghanistan: Gen Bajwa to US

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa has claimed that there are no safe havens for terrorists in his country and asked the US to stop blaming Islamabad for its failure in Afghanistan. Gen Bajwa asked the American leadership to instead search for the reasons for its failures in the war-torn country. Speaking at the […]

Army chief Bipin Rawat, NSA made secret visit to Bhutan, discussed China and Doklam issue

Army chief Bipin Rawat, NSA made secret visit to Bhutan, discussed China and Doklam issue

NEW DELHI: In a first such trip of a high-level Indian delegation to Bhutan post the Doklam standoff, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval held a secret meeting with officials of the neighbouring country regarding the increasing flexing of China’s military muscle at the eastern border. […]

Tripura assembly elections: Over 78 per cent voter turnout till 9 pm, no untoward incident reported, says EC

Tripura assembly elections: Over 78 per cent voter turnout till 9 pm, no untoward incident reported, says EC

Over 78 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 9 pm in the single-phase Tripura Assembly polls on Sunday, according to Election Commission. The turnout is likely to increase as a large number of people were still standing in queues even after the voting hours were over. The polling will continue till 9-10 pm as it […]