Ronan Farrow said Thursday that he and "at least one other prominent journalist" who had reported on the National Enquirer and President Donald Trump received blackmail threats from the tabloid's parent company, American Media Inc., over their work.
The Kerala government Friday said there was now no relevance for the Travancore Devaswom Board's plea in the Supreme Court, seeking extension of time to implement its September 28 verdict, permitting women of all age groups entry into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran said the plea was filed during the two-month-long Sabarimala pilgrim season as there was not much basic facilities for women devotees reaching there in large numbers. "Since the pilgrim season is over... Читать дальше...
Canadian private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management is in preliminary talks with India's Reliance Industries to buy a stake in its optical fibre and telecom tower assets, The Times of India n
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei wants cybersecurity to be viewed as a technical rather than ideological issue and is open to supervision by European governments to prove the point, a senior company exec
The Delhi High Court Friday sought response of the Centre and the RBI on a PIL seeking to stop banks from sharing PAN and financial transaction data of clients with credit rating agencies without their formal consent. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao issued notice to the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of India, seeking their stand on the plea. The plea claimed that sharing of a customer's Permanent Account Number (PAN) and other transactions with credit rating... Читать дальше...
IT’S been one of the biggest trends of the past 12 months, so we weren’t surprised when we saw this chic leopard print T-shirt had flown off the shelves in a matter of hours. The gorgeous style by Never Fully Dressed (in collaboration with charity, Trekstock) sold out within a day, with bloggers on Instagram […]
Steel coil prices in Turkey increased again this week because of the high cost of scrap alongside other global price increases, with local demand strong because of restocking, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday February 8.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday inaugurated the Jalpaiguri circuit bench of Calcutta High Court but West Bengal Chief Minister took objection to it claiming that her government as well as the court were kept in the dark. "Land is ours, circuit bench is of the high court. Neither the groom nor the bride is there but the band wala has come," Banerjee said about the inauguration of the circuit bench, accusing Modi of hijacking it. A Calcutta High Court official said there was no communication from... Читать дальше...
"Literature should be sensual and endlessly sensory," says Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Marlon James. "I like books that make me feel like I’m emerging from a fever."
Ghana Premier League clubs have sent their heartfelt messages to the family of former Nantes forward Emiliano Sala. The 28-year-old was pronounced dead on Friday after his body was finally found following a private search. The Argentine forward together with pilot David Ibbotson had gone missing for days after their plane vanished on t ...
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The Supreme Court Friday dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's plea challenging a Patna High Court order asking him to vacate the bungalow meant for the deputy chief minister and imposed Rs 50,000 fine on him for wasting "judicial time". The apex court did not find fault with the two orders passed by the single judge and the division bench of the high court dismissing the pleas of the former deputy chief minister against the state government's decision asking Tejashwi to vacate the bungalow for his successor Sushil Modi. Читать дальше...
With pitchers and catchers reporting in a mere four days, a new hope has accompanied the New York Mets. While every season comes with some hope to an [...]
JONATHAN FRANZEN OUTRAGED many environmentalists by arguing, in a 2015 issue of The New Yorker, that the obsession over climate change was pushing other ecological concerns to the side. What about all the birds we are killing off right now, he asked. The response was swift. Science writer Dan Fagin tweeted, “Not buying Franzen’s argument […]
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SEOUL | Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned in a major speech here Friday that the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “highly skilled at extracting concessions in exchange for nothing,” and cautioned U.S. negotiators against “repeating past mistakes” as President Trump heads toward a second summit ...
Emiliano Sala body was first spotted by British rescuers using a remotely operated underwater vehicle on Sunday close to where the plane vanished from radar on January 21.
[Namibian] FIFA on Friday named a five-member Normalisation Committee to oversee the governance of the Namibia Football Association until a new leadership has been elected.
Trump, for his part, has pushed for US manufacturing to return home as part of his Make America Great Again campaign.
There were no injuries in the incident, which occurred sometime before 2:20 a.m. on Chabot St. near Jean Talon St.
North Eastern Frontier Railway (NFR) will run an additional train between Dharmanagar in North Tripura district to here Saturday in view of the scheduled rally by Prime Mininster Narendra Modi on Saturday. The running of the additional train was confirmed by NFR public relations officer Dipak Deka on Friday. The train was introduced for the day by the Northeast Frontier Railway on our request so that people of North and Unakoti districts can join the prime minister's rally," state BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattachaya told newsmen here. Читать дальше...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Friday said Pakistan would provide all the evidence of "sabotage activities" by former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on February 19. Jadhav, 48, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on spying charges in April 2017. India moved the ICJ in May the same year against the verdict. The world court has halted Jadhav's execution on India's appeal pending the final verdict by it. Both India and Pakistan... Читать дальше...