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Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is in its eleventh season, found it’s first crorepati of this season on Friday. Sanoj Raj, a man from Bihar, played brilliantly to reach the 1 crore mark thus becoming the first contestant to attempt the 7 crore question. Unfortunately, Sanoj didn’t know the answer to the 7 crore question and decided to quit the game and take home 1 crore. The question was from cricket – “Who was the Indian bowler off whom Australian legend Don Bradman got a single to reach his 100th first-class century?” Baqa Jilani, Commander Rangachari, Gogumal Kishenchand, and Kanwar Rai…

Days after his Special Protection Group (SPG) cover was withdrawn, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday got protective cover from CRPF commandos in the downgraded Z+ category. Singh, along with with his wife Gursharan Kaur, will have 35 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) security cover round-the-clock at his 3, Motilal Nehru Road residence and during their movement across the country. Altogether, over 50 armed commandos will be available for their security and they will be deployed in shifts. An anti-sabotage team, including a dog squad, will be the part of the Z+ cover, an official in the know of…

The Ozone layer is healing! It has been 32 years since the famous Montreal Protocol that pointed out the culprit behind the depletion of the Ozone layer. On World Ozone Day, the United Nations is letting everyone know that the precautions are paying off. What was the Montreal Protocol? It is nothing but an international treaty made in 1987 wherein nations came together to slash the usage of Ozone-depleting chemicals. Most of these chemicals formed a part of the cooling industry. In a statement, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said in regards to the healing Ozone layer, ‘The Montreal Protocol has been…

Pakistan plans to send its first astronaut to space by 2022 with the help of its close ally China, Minister for Science and Technology has said. The selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Sunday. China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, Mr. Fawad was quoted as saying by the News International reported. He said that initially 50 individuals would be selected after which the list will be shortened to 25 in 2022. And out of them only one would be sent to space. The…

Pakistani singer Rabi Pirzada’s move to threaten Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Kashmir issue with snakes and crocodiles has backfired as she has been fined by the authorities for posing with reptiles. According to reports in Pakistani media, the singer has been asked to pay fines by the wildlife department for illegal captivity of the reptiles. In a video posted earlier this month on her YouTube channel, Pirzada, raising the Kashmir issue, can be seen holding a snake, saying: “All these are gifts for PM Modi. My friends will feast on you.” She began the video by saying…

U.S. stocks fell and haven assets like gold and the Japanese yen gained after a weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities sent crude prices surging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 86 points or 0.3%. The S&P 500 lost 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.6%. Ten of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500 fell except for energy shares, which climbed 2.3%. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose 10% to $66.37 a barrel. It had earlier jumped as much as 19.5% to $71.95 a barrel but retraced some of those gains after initial concerns over how badly oil output would…

A video showing a Saudi man carrying a baby while firing a revolver in the air after which another man places the weapon in the infant’s mouth has gone viral on social media platforms. In the video, a man is seen holding a crying baby in one hand and firing a revolver with the other. After firing a few shots in the air a second man is seen taking the weapon, emptying the bullets and placing the weapon in the mouth of the wailing infant. The video sparked outrage on social media as various activities and individuals demanded to serve action on…

A meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), chaired by the Cabinet Secretary, Shri Rajiv Gauba, was held today to review the prevailing flood situation in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Cabinet Secretary took stock of the current situation, preparedness, rescue, and relief operations and directed that immediate assistance, as sought by the states, be provided to meet the crisis. It was informed by both the States that due to extremely heavy rainfall and the consequent discharge of water from the Gandhi Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh and other reservoirs in the two states, there has been…

The UAE authorities distributed 650 food basket baskets weighing more than 50 tonnes to people in the Governorate of Hadramaut, Yemen. The Emirati Red Crescent handed over the relief aid packages which benefited 3,250 needy families in the region of Tarim as part of efforts to cater to humanitarian and developmental needs in Yemen. Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/StarvisionN Like & Follow us on Facebook – www.facebook.com/starvisionnewsenglish

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting global energy supplies and warned on Sunday that US bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in the range of its missiles. Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attacks that knocked out more than half of Saudi oil output or more than 5% of global supply, but U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the assault was the work of Iran, a Houthi ally. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, speaking on state TV, dismissed the U.S. allegation as…