Day: July 30, 2019

Jason Momoa talks about his Han Solo-like 'Dune' character

Jason Momoa to headline ‘Sweet Girl’

2:32 pm July 30, 2019

Los Angeles: Jason Momoa is set to star in the revenge action film “Sweet Girl”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor will play a grieving husband who vows to bring justice to the perpetrators of his wife’s death, while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter. Brian Andrew Mendoza is making his […]

Crab catcher dragged away by tiger in Sundarbans

2:30 pm July 30, 2019

Canning: A crab catcher has been dragged away by a tiger in West Bengal’s Sundarbans, a forest official said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at South 24 Parganas’ Gosaba on International Tigers’ Day on Monday. “A tiger dragged away 48-year-old Arjun Mondal by the neck, while he was catching crabs in a creek near Sadakkhali […]

IIT-Kharagpur researchers turn Odisha steel plant dumpsites into greenbelt

220 foreign students apply at IIT Kharagpur for courses

2:21 pm July 30, 2019

Kolkata: As part of an initiative to boost the presence of foreign students in its campus by offering scholarships, IIT Kharagpur has received close to 220 applications from international students, for various degree programmes this year. The acceptance rate of the international students in various masters and doctoral degree programmes is about eight per cent, […]

Top diplomats gather in Bangkok for key Asia-Pacific talks

2:17 pm July 30, 2019

Bangkok: Top diplomats from the Asia-Pacific region started gathering Tuesday in the Thai capital to discuss issues of concern to the area, including security on the Korean peninsula and China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. The meetings in Bangkok are hosted by the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, chaired this year by […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Easter Day attacks imperil Sri Lanka economic recovery

2:14 pm July 30, 2019

Colombo: Shocks from deadly suicide bombings on Easter Day in Sri Lanka are reverberating throughout its economy in the worst crisis since the South Asian island nation’s civil war ended in 2009. The blasts that killed more than 250 people were blamed on Islamic extremists. They have devastated Sri Lanka’s vital tourism industry, source of […]