Hours after Saturday’s gunbattle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore that claimed the lives of two terrorists and eight CRPF men, there was another battle — between the paramilitary force and the Army over who killed the terrorists. CRPF sources allege that the Army tried to take credit for killing the terrorists and even carried […]
President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tashkent beginning tomorrow during which India is expected to seek China’s support for membership of the NSG. “We will release relevant information in due course,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said today. The spokesperson […]
ISRO on Wednesday said it is looking at increasing the number of satellite launches to 12-18 per year while underscoring the need for streamlining its robust PSLV series by adding on a new vehicle assembly building. “We need to streamline the PSLV series and we are trying to get into more number of launches per […]
Attacking Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, AAP on Wednesday, wrote to him demanding that he and ACB chief M K Meena be made “co-accused” in four cases pertaining to alleged scams during the Sheila Dikshit government including one that is related to prices of natural gas from the KG basin. 12 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs […]
Honor 5C also gets a rear fingerprint scanner like Honor 5X. It has a non-removable 3000mAh battery. Honor T1 tablet has a 7 inch WSVGA Touchscreen, ruuns Android v4.4 (KitKat) OS and has a 2 mp front and rear camera. It has a 1.2 GHz Spreadtrum SC7731G Quad-Core Processor, supports WiFi and 1GB RAM +8GB […]
Moto G4 has been launched in India at Rs 12,499, and just like the Plus version, it is an Amazon exclusive smartphone. Moto G4 will start selling on the e-commerce site from midnight today. Moto G4 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB […]
BJP MP from East Delhi Maheish Girri Tuesday ended his three-day hunger strike outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in the presence of Home Minister Rajnath Singh. “I challenged Kejriwal for a debate, it has been 3 days. He didn’t turn up so its their loss. I’m going to end my hunger strike today,” […]
The Union Minister spoke about challenges facing his ministry, censorship and creative freedom, and the Dadri lynching. This edition of the Express Adda was hosted by hospitality partners Tote on the Turf, Mahalaxmi Race course, Mumbai. It saw Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad in conversation with The Indian Express National […]
Airlines will soon charge only Rs 2,500 for one hour flights and will get tax incentives for operating on unserved routes even as fliers will have to pay additional levy towards regional connectivity fund under the civil aviation policy unveiled on Wednesday. The government has scrapped the controversial 5/20 norm and now any domestic airline […]
OnePlus 3’s official price has been revealed in India just a day ahead of its global launch. According to an advertisement in Hindustan Times, the 6GB RAM + 64GB ROM variant of OnePlus 3 is priced at Rs 27,999. We already know the smartphone is Amazon exclusive. OnePlus users will also get access to 12 […]
A day after President Pranab Mukherjee withheld assent to a bill passed by the Delhi legislative assembly to exempt the post of parliamentary secretary from the purview of the office of profit, the Aam Aadmi Party came under attack from the BJP and Congress for the ‘extra-judicial appointments.’ Even as AAP insisted that the parliamentary […]
Udta Punjab and its depiction of the prevalent drug menace in Punjab and the usage of crude language may shock many, if the film’s protagonist is to be believed. So real was the movie’s script for Shahid Kapoor that the actor, too, felt worried for his brother and family.(Read all about the controversy here) “I […]
The Bombay High Court on Monday ordered the Censor board to clear Udta Punjab with just one cut and issue a fresh certificate to movie in two days. Refusing to stay the release of the film, as demanded by the board, the court directed the makers of the film to delete urination scene and asks […]
Sardar said the impact of drugs was visible across Punjab. “It’s been quite a while since I have travelled across the state. But Punjab had acquired a name… For instance, the physique of any normal person used to be so great. Dekhne mein maza aata tha (You felt good just looking at that). But now, […]
LG has not shied away from experimenting when it comes to smartphones. So the Korean company has given us a curved phone, a power button at the back and knock codes. It has also made some pretty good flagships in the G series, and the Google Nexus phones that got them a good fan base. […]
Veteran Leander Paes, the winner of 18 grand slam titles, will make his seventh Olympic appearance after he was named as Rohan Bopanna’s partner for the men’s doubles by the All India Tennis Association on Saturday. Bopanna, ranked 10th in the world, had picked world number 125 Saketh Myneni as his preferred partner, putting in […]
The last couple of years has seen a lot of churning in the smartphone industry and one of the brands that’s taken a serious hit has been Sony. Though no longer a volume player, it has a grip on the water/dust proof devices segment, which is significant in the southern parts of India. Now the […]
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar on Thursday countered his Cabinet colleague Maneka Gandhi’s charges that the Environment Ministry thrived in the killing of innocent animals and asserted that such decisions were taken keeping scientific facts in mind to help those affected by such animals. “I will not react on who said […]
Lava X81 smartphone with a metallic finish and Android 6.0 OS has been launced at a price of Rs 11,500. Lava X81 is a 4G enabled smartphone and will be available in retail stores in India, and exclusively on Flipkart from June 13. Lava X81 features a 5-inch HD IPS display with full lamination and […]