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Sydney, Dec 15: Australia now recognises west Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Saturday, but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not occur until a peace settlement is achieved. Canberra became one of just a few governments around the world to follow US President Donald Trump's lead and recognise the contested city as Israel's capital, but Morrison also

Mumbai, Dec 15: Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor Ahuja and south star Dulquer Salmaan fought with Mumbai police in small twitter row Friday after the cops, wrongly, criticised the actor's co-star Dulquer Salmaan for "trying stunt while driving". Sonam had posted a video clip from a film shoot on Twitter showing Salmaan in the driver's seat of a car. His hands are seen fiddling with a mobile phone as

Noida, Dec 15: A news anchor with a private television channel died allegedly after she fell off the balcony of her fourth-floor apartment here early Friday, with her family suspecting foul play. Radhika Kaushik, who hailed from Rajasthan, was in her house in the Antriksh Forest Apartments in Sector 77 with a colleague when the incident occurred at around 3.30 am, police said. A case has been

Dec 15: Shares of Johnson & Johnson fell 10 percent on Friday and were on track to post their biggest percentage drop in more than 16 years, after Reuters reported that the pharma major knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder. The decline in shares erased about $40 billion from the company's market capitalisation, with investors worrying about the impact of the

Kathmandu, Dec 14: The Nepal government has banned the use of Indian currency notes of Rs 2,000, Rs 500 and Rs 200 denominations, according to a media report. The government has asked the people to refrain from keeping or carrying Indian bank notes higher than Rs 100 denomination as it has not legalised them, The Kathmandu Post quoted Minister for Information and Communications Gokul Prasad

New Delhi, Dec 14: Noted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with this year's Jnanpith Award, a literary award given to an author for "outstanding contribution towards literature", Bharatiya Jnanpith announced Friday. "Amitav Ghosh is a path-breaking novelist. In his novels, Ghosh treads through historical settings to the modern era and weaves a space where the past connects with the

New Delhi, Dec 14: Veteran Congress leader Ashok Gehlot will be the next chief minister of Rajasthan, the Congress announced on Friday ending days of suspense over the new leadership in the state. In a delicate balancing act, young leader and state Congress President Sachin Pilot will be the deputy chief minister of Rajasthan. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal, who was sent as the central

New Delhi, Dec 14: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday claimed that the loan waivers for farmers actually go to the "best connected rather than the poorest". He also underlined as to how it creates problems for the fiscal of the state too. "Certainly, there is a reason to discuss about farm distress but the question of whether the flows to farmers is best affected

New Delhi, Dec 14: As many as 10,500 restaurants have been de-listed by e-commerce firms like Zomato and Swiggy for not having license or registration under the food safety law, Parliament was told Friday. Minister of state for health Ashwini Kumar Choubey said the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India or FSSAI in July directed food e-commerce firms to de-list the the restaurants which don

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi stormed into the capital's South Block in end-May 2014, he has reportedly made 84 trips around the world, which cost about $280 million (over Rs 2,010 crore), according to the government. The above information was provided by Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh in Parliament, in a response to a lawmaker's question, Bloomberg reported. The travel