Indian National award-winning actress Kalki Koechlin, who is playing a pivotal role in ‘Sacred Games 2’, says that though she is quite politically aware as an individual, global politics was not a dinner table discussion at home in her childhood. ### In the Netflix show, she plays a character named Batya, who comes from a…
Dubai: The four largest UAE banks, which account for nearly 70 per cent of the banking assets, reported a combined net profit of Dh19 billion for the first half of 2019, up 16 per cent from the same period in 2018, according to the first half results analysed by rating agency Moody’s. ### The combined…
New Delhi: Condolences poured in on Friday for former India cricketer V.B. Chandrasekhar who committed suicide in Chennai on Thursday. ### A news report quoted a member of Chandrasekhar’s family saying the 57-year-old was upset over the financial losses incurred while running a cricket league team and thus he committed suicide. He owned a team…
London: Andy Murray is to skip the US Open later this month where he was scheduled to play doubles so as to get more singles matches under his belt, the former world number one old the BBC. ### The 32-year-old Scotsman lost in straight sets to old foe Richard Gasquet earlier this week in Cincinnati…
UNITED NATIONS: UN Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s UN envoy said on Friday after the council met on the issue for the first time in decades. ### The 15-member council met behind closed doors at the request of…
Dubai: A family driver has been sentenced to a year in jail by a Dubai court for threatening to expose his illicit relationship with his employer’s daughter if she refused to marry him. ### The 33-year-old Indian defendant admitted that he had been working for the family for 10 years at their home in Jumeirah…
If the US bond market is any indication, President Donald Trump’s escalating belligerence on trade is creating seriously increased risks of recession. But I haven’t seen many clear explanations of why that might be so. The problem isn’t just, or even mainly, that the president really does seem to be a Tariff Man. ### What’s…
New Delhi: A man was arrested for allegedly making a hoax call on August 8 saying his wife was planning to trigger a bomb at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, police said on Saturday. ### The police said that the man, Nasiruddin (29), made the hoax call stating that his wife was a…
Jimmy Kimmel has learned an expensive lesson: don’t mess with the US government’s emergency alert system. ### Kimmel’s network, ABC, was one of four media organisations fined by the Federal Communications Commission this week for improper use of the emergency signal that is sent over television, radio and mobile phones to warn people of danger…
Domenica 5 giugno ad Arco (Lago di Garda – Trentino) si sono chiusi i Campionati Italiani Giovanili d’arrampicata sportiva 2016. Oltre 250 atleti si sono dati appuntamento per le categorie Under 20,18,16 nelle discipline Speed, Lead e Boulder. SPEED Nella categoria Under 16, a vincere il titolo maschile è Jacopo Stefani della Equilibrium Soc. Coop….