Seoul: A shallow 2.9-magnitude earthquake struck near North Korea’s nuclear test site before dawn today, weeks after Pyongyang’s biggest detonation, but South Korean experts said the tremor did not appear to be man-made.

The tremor hit at 01:41 AM (local time) with a depth of around five kilometres, the US

London: Jose Mourinho takes high-flying Manchester United to Liverpool for a searching test of their title credentials this weekend as the Premier League returns with a bang after the international break.

United are level with Manchester City at the top of the table on 19 points, trailing their neighbours on goal

Seoul: The chairman of Samsung Electronics Co.’s board of directors, who has been the public face of the company after its de facto chief was jailed on corruption charges, said today he will resign next year to make way for a new leader.

“As we are confronted with unprecedented crisis inside out, I believe that time has now

Amaravati: A proposed biopic on NT Rama Rao’s life by filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has kicked off a controversy in Andhra Pradesh.

Varma has announced the film on the Telugu film legend and TDP founder’s last few years and it has not gone down well with the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) as certain episodes in NTR’s lat

Mumbai: Filmmaker Ayan Mukerji said he is elated that megastar Amitabh Bachchan is on board his next directorial “Brahmastra”.

After directing two coming-of-age movies such as, “Wake Up Sid” and “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani”, the 34-year-old director will helm the fantasy adventure serie

Mumbai: Driven by strong IIP numbers and an unchanged inflation, the Sensex today rallied over 211 points to 32,393, reflecting interrupted buying by domestic institutional investors.

The rupee appreciating 19 paise to 64.89 against the dollar today gave a leg to the rally.

The rest of Asia logged a mixed trend.

The

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today referred to its constitution bench the matter pertaining to a ban on the entry of women at Kerala’s historic Sabarimala temple.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief justice Dipak Misra framed several questions to be dealt with by the constitution bench, including whether the temp

Washington: Closing the gender gap in every aspect of economy is the most efficient way to reduce inequalities, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said today.

“The most efficient way to reduce the inequalities would be to actually close the gender gap between men and women, and that is a no-brainer,” Lagarde

Mumbai: The newly-appointed chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Anupam Kher, says he was on board to discuss the issues and problems faced by the students, as highlighted in their open letter to him.

The 62-year-old veteran actor was on Wednesday appointed the chief of the Pune-based FTII, a

Noida: Another family now lives at L-32 Jalvayu Vihar in Noida where 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found dead in her bedroom in 2008.

Since yesterday, the family has been dodging reporters and the media spotlight that have returned to the flat after Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were acquitted by the Allahabad High Court in