Mumbai: Slamming the trolling of “Dangal” actor Zaira Wasim after she alleged molestation on a flight, actor Kangana Ranaut said people should stop passing judgements on her.

The 17-year-old actor was alleged that she was molested on a Delhi-Mumbai flight on Saturday night. She later narrated her exper

Colombo: Sri Lanka has become the 163rd nation to accede to the anti-personnel mine ban convention, fulfilling the pledge it made last year to join the international community in supporting the ongoing landmine clearance programme, the foreign ministry said here today.

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Mission to the UN

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD)today announced its decision to raise the Mahanadi water dispute, Polavaram project row and other pressing issues facing the state during the winter session of the Parliament, beginning tomorrow.

The decision was taken today at the BJD’s parliamentary party meetin

Chennai: The Madras High Court today dismissed as not maintainable a plea for disqualifying candidates of AIADMK and DMK and Independent TTV Dhinakaran in the RK Nagar Assembly by-poll for their alleged electoral malpractices during the earlier cancelled by-election. A bench comprising justices TS Sivagnanam and K Ravichand

Chennai: The Labour department has requested public and private sector undertakings operating in the Dr Radhakrishnan Assembly constituency to declare a paid holiday for their employees on December 21 in view of the by-election there.

“..the employers of industrial and commercial establishments, including pu

New Delhi: The Congress today said the Election Commission was a BJP “puppet” for not acting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his “roadshow” in Gujarat.

The prime minister had violated the model code of conduct by holding a “roadshow” after voting in the Gujarat Assemb

Poonthura/Vizhinjam(Kerala):Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi today visited some places hit by the Cyclone Ochki in southern Kerala that has claimed 66 lives, most of them fishermen, and pitched for a better warning system to prevent recurrence of such tragedies.

Addressing the families of fishermen who died in the

Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan is all set to launch his brother-in-law Aayush Sharma in his home production “Loveratri”.

The 51-year-old star took to Twitter to make the announcement of the project, which will be the fifth film under his banner, Salman Khan Films.

“Feeling very happy to

Yangon: At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine state that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today.

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee

Ahmedabad: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today cast his vote at a polling booth here, and appealed to the people to come out in large numbers to exercise their right to franchise.

The Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat stood in a queue to vote at the Chimanbhai Institute in the Vejalpur Assembly constituency he