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Houston, Sept 25: Popular Indian-origin comic Hasan Minhaj was reportedly not allowed to enter the venue where the 'Howdy Modi' event took place. About 50,000 people of the Indian-American community attended the event at the NRG Stadium here on Sunday that was jointly addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump. A video is doing the rounds on social media, in which the

New York, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday conferred the "Global Goalkeeper" award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by his government. In a series of tweets in Hindi, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said Modi lauded the countrymen for contributing to the grand success of the cleanliness mission, saying he shared the honour with

New York, Sept 25: "He's brought India together, we'll call him the Father of India", said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, showering praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and adding that the two share great chemistry, at their meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA here. Trump said: "My personal chemistry with PM Modi is as good as it can get. "He is a great gentleman and great leader.. I

New York, Sept 25: "He's brought India together, we'll call him the Father of India", said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, showering praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and adding that the two share great chemistry, at their meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA here. Trump said: "My personal chemistry with PM Modi is as good as it can get. "He is a great gentleman and great leader.. I

Paris, Sept 24: France risks a shortage of frozen sperm if lawmakers approve new legislation that allows single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and abolishes the right of sperm and egg donors to keep their identities secret, clinicians said. Lawmakers in the country's National Assembly on Tuesday start debating a bioethics bill that unwinds some of western Europe's

New Delhi, Sept 24: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in Pakistan shook several parts of north India, including the Delhi-NCR region, on Tuesday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. There was no report of any loss of life or property following the quake at 4.33 pm, officials said. "The epicentre was near the India-Pakistan border. The closest big city to the epicentre is

Mumbai, Sept 24: Dealing a pre-festival season blow to lakhs of unsuspecting customers, the Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday barred the Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank Ltd from carrying out a majority of its routine business transactions for a six-month period. The move sent panic waves among the depositors, investors and the city's banking and business circles of the PMC Bank which

Mumbai, Sept 24: Dealing a pre-festival season blow to lakhs of unsuspecting customers, the Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday barred the Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank Ltd from carrying out a majority of its routine business transactions for a six-month period. The move sent panic waves among the depositors, investors and the city's banking and business circles of the PMC Bank which

Sept 24: US President Donald Trump aired one of his oldest grievances at the United Nations on Monday: that it's unfair he never got the Nobel Peace Prize. "I would get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don't," he complained. Trump went on to raise the surprise awarding of one of the world's most prestigious accolades in 2009 to his predecessor in the White

United Nations, Sept 24: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, 16 child petitioners, including Sweden's Greta Thunberg and American Alexandria Villase, from 12 countries presented a landmark official complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (OHCHR) to protest aginst the lack of government action on the climate crisis. In the complaint filed on Monday through the Third Optional