Chandigarh, 11 March: The sixth edition of the premier sports literature festival, Playwrite, begins tomorrow at Hotel Lalit, IT Park, in the city. The highlight of this year’s Playwrite is presence of many courageous sports achievers like Reena Kaushal and Opinder Sekhon, the young school level sports achievers, fashion in sports, the industry support to […]
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US has left several Indian startups worried who have exposure to its investments and their raised funds may now be stuck.According to recent data by global software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based market intelligence platform Tracxn, SVB had exposure in at least 21 startups in India although it did not […]
The two-day long Toyota Hilux Campaign, started today at Forest hill Golf Resort. The event was flagged off by Vinod Lalwani, DGM, Toyota kirloskar. The journey will start from Chandigarh and end at Chitkul, the last village of India. The first stop of the journey will be up to Naldehra in Himachal, which is about […]
Throwing a huge question mark over the 2024 election, former President Donald Trump may be criminally charged in connection with hush money he allegedly paid to silence Stormy Daniels, an adult film star, who said she had an affair with him, according to news reports.A city prosecutor has “signalled” Trump’s lawyers that he could face […]
A former Bakersfield City Council candidate, Rajvir “Raj” Singh Gill, 60, was arrested last weekend on suspicion of allegedly trying to hire hit men to shoot members of one of Bakersfield’s largest gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji Khalsa Darbar, and burn down the property, US-based bakersfield.com reported.Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches in multiple cities of Bihar in connection with a money-laundering investigation into the land for jobs ‘scam’ case in which RJD leaders Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi were questioned recently by the CBI.The searches are covering some leaders linked to the Rashtriya Janata Dal in […]
At least seven people were killed and eight others injured during a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, local media reported on Friday.Earlier media reports said the shooting, which occurred around 9 p.m. on Thursday night, killed six people. But one more body was found on the upper part […]
China’s Parliament on Friday unanimously endorsed an unprecedented third five-year term for President Xi Jinping.Xi, 69, was re-elected by the once-in-a-five-year Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) as its leader in October last year, becoming the first Chinese leader after the party founder Mao Zedong to continue in power beyond the two […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese were greeted with loud cheers at the cricket stadium in Ahmedabad as they did a lap of honour prior to the fourth test match of the Border-Gavaskar trophy between India and Australia. While Congress criticised the lap of honour by the prime minister at the […]
Actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik, known for his memorable comic roles in films such as “Jaane Bhi do Yaaro” and “Mr India”, passed away following a heart attack early Thursday morning. He was 66.According to friend and colleague Anupam Kher, Kaushik was at a friend’s home in Delhi when he complained of uneasiness. “He felt uneasy and […]