Bhumi Pednekkar on her most challenging language on screen
Mumbai, July 12 (IANS) Actress Bhumi Pednekkar revealed which language she found the most difficult to speak on screen. While interacting exclusively to IANS, during the promotion of her 2025 release, ‘Mere Husband Ki Biwi’, Bhumi shared that although she loves trying her hands at various languages, she found Bundelkhandi to be the toughest one […]
Eco-friendly cars account for half of new car registrations in S. Korea in H1
Seoul, July 12 (IANS) Eco-friendly vehicles accounted for half of new car registrations in South Korea in the first half of this year, driven by a sharp increase in electric vehicle (EV) sales, an auto market tracker said on Sunday. It marked the first time that eco-friendly vehicles made up more than half of new […]
Samsung Electronics to bring forward opening of 1st Yongin chip plant to 2029
Seoul, July 12 (IANS) Samsung Electronics is moving to begin operations at the first semiconductor fabrication plant in its Yongin chip cluster in 2029, one to two years earlier than planned, industry sources said on Sunday. The accelerated timeline comes as the government speeds up development of the Yongin National Industrial Complex, a national strategic […]
India’s 1st bullet train to begin phased operations from August 15, 2027: Ashwini Vaishnaw
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) India’s first bullet train service will begin operations in phases from August 15, 2027, with the Surat-Bilimora section of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) corridor set to become the country’s inaugural high-speed rail route, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced. The 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor will be commissioned […]
Piyush Goyal to lead business delegation to Spain, Belgium and Finland to deepen trade, investment ties
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will lead a high-level Indian business delegation on a five-day visit to Spain, Belgium and Finland from July 13 to 17, as India seeks to deepen its economic engagement with Europe through enhanced cooperation in trade, investment, technology, innovation and sustainability, it was […]
ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has completed drilling its second geothermal well in Ladakh’s Puga Valley, in a significant step toward developing India’s first pilot geothermal power plant. The upstream oil giant’s research and development arm, ONGC Energy Centre, drilled the well to a depth of 1,000 […]
‘Vriksh Mitra Parivar’ to have a national structure: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday took a resolve to turn environment protection into a mass movement among nearly 17,000 ‘Vriksh Mitra’ connected from across the country. Chouhan presented a clear and clean roadmap to give environment protection the form of a concrete mass movement based on suggestions and […]
Paralympian Rakesh Kumar debunks J&K Sports Council’s claims, says he applied offline under S.O.-12
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Paralympic medallist Rakesh Kumar has rejected the Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council’s assertion that he never applied for appointment under S.O.-12 of 2022, maintaining that he had submitted his application offline and questioning how he could now produce documentary proof. Responding to the Council’s statement denying his allegations of exclusion […]
Hyderabad’s Vinoo Mankad champions felicitated during TG20 closing ceremony
Hyderabad, July 12 (IANS) The Hyderabad Under-19 team, which recently emerged victorious in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy, was felicitated during the closing ceremony of the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s TG20 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. The championship-winning squad was honoured in front of a packed crowd, celebrating their remarkable achievement on the […]
‘A privilege to meet tennis legend’: Jay Shah meets John McEnroe at Wimbledon final
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah met tennis great John McEnroe on the sidelines of the Wimbledon women’s singles final, describing the American legend as one of the sport’s true icons. Sharing the moment on X, Shah wrote: “A privilege to meet tennis legend John McEnroe on the […]
