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"Grown-ish" star Yara Shahidi will be playing Tinker Bell in Disney's live-action "Peter Pan" movie. Shahidi joins newcomers Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson in the film, titled "Peter Pan & Wendy", reported Deadline.

Farm fires have begun in Amritsar, Punjab, and neighbouring border regions and are likely to influence the city’s air quality.

Party strategists feel Udhayanidhi's debut in electoral politics at this juncture would certainly give the DMK’s opponents ammunition to accuse it of remaining trapped with one dynasty and take the focus away from the Dravidian party's ideological battle...

Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is not happy with the performance of both his batting and bowling units after his side suffered their second consecutive loss in the Indian Premier League. After CSK's 44-run defeat at the hands of Delhi c...

RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha seems to have lost his charm before emerging on the political horizon of Bihar due largely to his frequent switchovers and inept handling of the political situation.

A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and burst into flames near a highway in northeastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board, officials said.

The number of coronavirus cases in France has passed 500,000, authorities said on Friday after recording a nearrecord daily jump in infections.

US President Donald Trump plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the nine-member bench of the US Supreme Court to fill up the vacancy following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, multiple news reports said on Friday. Trump has said he will anno...

Speechmaking at the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year. And each year, certain enormous topics and certain louder voices dominate.

Two women cricketers were killed and three others went missing after a massive landslide triggered by incessant rainfall hit their houses at Mawnei in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district on Friday, officials said. Bodies of cricketers Razia Ahmed, who p...

Oil edged lower on Friday, falling more than 2% on the week as COVID19 cases surged globally and oil supply is set to rise in coming weeks.

The treasurer of Philadelphia was fired Friday after federal prosecutors charged him with embezzling money from customers at a bank where he previously worked and entering into a sham marriage to win U.S. citizenship.

Chhattisgarh reported 2,942 COVID-19 cases and 11 more fatalities, taking the statewide tally to 98,565 and the toll to 777 on Friday, a health official said. During the day, 710 people were discharged from hospitals following recovery while 5,125 patie...

A federal appeals court panel is weighing the fate of a sweeping Missouri abortion law, including a provision that prohibits a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has ordered a probe after a state minister expressed fears that a senior IAS officer in her department had either been "kidnapped" or "gone underground". However, it was later found that the IAS officer h...

Delhi University's new academic session will commence on November 18, while admissions for undergraduate courses under the first cut-off list will begin from October 12. The varsity announced the admission schedule for undergraduate and postgraduate co...