Abhishek Bachchan on Monday started filming his next, “The Big Bull”. The actor took to Instagram to share the news. “Here we go! A new journey, a new beginning. Need your best wishes,” Abhishek captioned the photo of the film’s clapboard. Kookie Gulati is directing the film with Ajay Devgn attached to produce. Abhishek and Ajay previously featured together in ...

India captain Virat Kohli has managed to hold on to his second position behind Australia’s Steve Smith in the ICC Test Rankings for batsmen released on Monday. Kohli, with 903 rating points, is 34 points behind Smith (937). Besides former Australia captain Smith, compatriot Pat Cummins has also retained his one position in the ICC Test bowlers’ rankings. Both Smith ...

Air India posted an operating loss of around Rs 4,600 crore in the last financial year mainly due to higher oil prices and foreign exchange losses but the debt-laden carrier expects to turn operationally profitable in 2019-20, according to senior officials. Reflecting tough business conditions, the airline’s net loss stood at about Rs 8,400 crore while total revenues touched around ...

US President Donald Trump will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Houston’s mega “Howdy, Modi!” event on September 22, the White House said on Sunday. Reflecting on the new bonhomie in the India-US ties under the Trump administration, this is for the first time in recent history that the leaders of the two largest democracies would be addressing a joint ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turns 69 on Tuesday, will visit the site of the Gujarat’s Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river whose water level has reached its highest mark for the first time to celebrate the feat and kick off “Namami Narmade” festival. For the first time since the height of the dam was raised in 2017, the ...

In continuation of the Indian Navy’s overseas deployment to Africa, Europe and Russia, Indian Naval Ship Tarkash made a port call at Walvis Bay, Namibia today, on 15 Sep 19 for a three days visit. The port call by INS Tarkash at Walvis Bay is a demonstration of India’s warm ties with Namibia and its commitment to enhance operational reach, ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced an over Rs 70,000 crore package for the exports and real estate sectors, including setting up of a stressed asset fund, as the government continued with firefighting measures to pull the economy out of a six-year low growth rate. A Rs 20,000 crore fund, with government putting in half of the amount, will ...

The names of all NRC applicants have been published online on Saturday, the office of the NRC State Coordinator said here. The names of all the 3.30 crore applicants as per draft NRC and supplementary list of inclusions and exclusions (final NRC) have been published, an official said. The final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on August ...

A man was allegedly shot dead by two persons in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area, police said on Saturday. Najim Khan was a resident of Subhash Mohalla in Vijay Park and used to operate a stall near Lal Qila, they said. Police said they received information regarding the incident on Friday night. Khan was taken to the GTB hospital where he ...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday decided that ministers will start paying their own income tax, ending a four-decade-old practice of the state exchequer shelling out the amount annually for them. The direction follows criticism in the media of a law enacted in 1981 which ensures that the state’s chief minister and ministers don’t pay any income tax themselves. Instead, ...