Mumbai: Hindi film industry heartthrob Varun Dhawan celebrated his 37th birthday Wednesday in a special way, surrounded by fans and the media outside his Juhu home. Dressed in a stylish white and pink striped shirt paired with light blue denims, Varun looked effortlessly cool as he marked another year of his life. The highlight of the celebration...

Mumbai: The RBI on Wednesday barred Kotak Mahindra Bank from onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels and issuing fresh credit cards with immediate effect as the lender found deficient in its IT risk management. These actions, the RBI said, are necessitated based on significant concerns arising out of Reserve Bank's IT examination of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken 400 million (40 crore) people out of poverty and is doing an “unbelievable job” in India, Global banking giant JP Morgan Chase chief executive officer (CEO) Jamie Dimon has said. Speaking at an event hosted by the Economic Club of New York Tuesday, Dimon lauded the economic reforms implemented...

Hinjili (Odisha): Biju Janata Dal president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday launched his party's campaign for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections and pledged to make Odisha the number one state in the country by 2036. In the election campaign from his home turf Hinjili, Patnaik targeted the opposition parties and accused them of "obstructing" developmental...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday observed that allegations of conspiracy against the Prime Minister cannot be made irresponsibly and need to be based on “cogent and substantial reasons.” The High Court said this while hearing a defamation suit by BJD MP Pinaki Misra against Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai over claims of corruption. The court said...

Mumbai: A throwback monochrome photograph featuring late Hindi film star Sushant Singh Rajput has gone viral on social media. In the viral image, the late actor is seen cuddling star cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s baby daughter Ziva. In the black and white image, Sushant can be seen smiling, while Dhoni happily looks at the two. Social media...

New Delhi: A few farmers from Tamil Nadu, including a woman, Wednesday climbed onto a mobile tower as they protested at Delhi's Jantar Mantar over demands of better prices for their crops and the river interlinking issue, officials said. Scores of Tamil Nadu farmers gathered at Jantar Mantar, some of who climbed nearby trees and a mobile...

New Delhi: As India's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is celebrating his 51st birthday Wednesday, social media is exploding with heartfelt wishes, painting the digital realm with hues of admiration and celebration for the cricketing icon, who is often hailed as the 'God of cricket'. Conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2014, Tendulkar is a veteran of 15,921 runs...

New Delhi: The West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made by the state's School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided schools. Challenging the high court order, the state government, in its appeal filed before the top court, said the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) after taking note of answers to queries it had raised before the Election Commission. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta sought answers from an official...