Mumbai: Actor Varun Dhawan today said the debate on nepotism in film industry started by Kangana Ranaut was right to a certain extent but blown out of proportion.

Earlier this year, the “Queen” star had called Johar “flag-bearer of nepotism” on his own chat show, stoking a major controversy.

Washington: US President Donald Trump today called the terrorist incident in London as another attack “by a loser terrorist” prompting British Prime Minister Theresa May to rebuke him by asking not to “speculate”.

Trump said that he has been briefed on London attack and would soon be speaking to

Kandahar: A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan today, officials said, with reports of several soldiers wounded.

The Taliban claimed the attack which Kandahar provincial governor spokesman Fazal Bari Baryalai told AFP “totally destr

Manila: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced rising global pressure Tuesday to solve the crisis for her nation’s displaced Rohingya Muslim minority, meeting the UN chief and America’s top diplomat in the Philippines.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Nobel laureate that hundreds of thousands o

New Delhi:India and Japan today condemned North Korea’s nuclear programme as a grave threat to global peace and stressed on holding accountable all parties supporting the reclusive nation’s nuclear ambitions, in a veiled reference to Pakistan.

Though there was no direct reference to Pakistan in the joint st

Chennai: The Madras High Court today ordered that no floor test would be conducted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly till September 20 after pleas were filed by opposition DMK leader M K Stalin and MLA P Vetrivel, a loyalist of ousted AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, in this regard.

Justice M Duraiswami passed the interim order

Dhaka: India today rushed 53 tonnes of relief materials to Bangladesh and pledged all help to Dhaka in tackling the humanitarian crisis after nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees fled to the country from Myanmar following the ethnic violence in the Buddhist-majority nation.

“Operation Insaniyat: High Commissio

Brussels: The European Union has extended sanctions by a further six months against dozens of Russian citizens and companies deemed to have a role in threatening the stability and independence of Ukraine.

EU headquarters said today the restrictive measures have been prolonged until March 14 and now apply to 149 individ

New Delhi: A promotee Indian Police Service (IPS) officer cannot claim seniority based on the length of his service and it will depend on the day of his induction in the All India Police Service, the Supreme Court has held.

The apex court said that a promotee officer getting a higher pay and grade pay on account of his

Hyderabad: Telangana State Animal Husbandry minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav escaped unhurt while a ruling party MLA was injured after the minister’s vehicle was hit by a lorry on the Outer Ring Road on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The minister along with Medchal MLA M Sudheer Reddy was proceedin