Adele earns 84,000 pounds a day

Singer Adele is reportedly earning around 84,000 pounds a day thanks to the huge success of her last album.

The star made an incredible comeback to the music industry with her album "25" last year, with it becoming the fastest selling in British history.

According to The Sun, she raked in around 30 million pounds last year through her company Melted Stone Limited, as per newly-released accounts - equalling 84,000 pounds a day, reports mirror.co.uk.

Her company Melted Stone Limited turned over 30.7 million pounds.

India, US would be "best friends" if elected as prez: Trump

Edison (New Jersey), Oct 16 : Terming India as a "key strategic ally", Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised that if voted to power India and the US would become "best friends" and have a "phenomenal future" together.

"India's is the world's largest democracy and is a natural ally of the US. Under a Trump Administration, we are going to become even better friends, in fact I would take the term better out and we would be best friends," Trump, 70, told a cheering crowd of Indian-Americans at a charity event organised by the Republican Hindu Coalition yesterday.

"We are for free trade. We will have good trade deals with other countries. We are going to do a lot of business with India. We are going to have a phenomenal future together," he said.

He praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking India on a fast track growth with a series of economic reforms and reforming bureaucracy, saying it was required in the US too.

19 killed, over 60 injured in Varanasi stampede

At least 19 persons, including 14 women, were killed and over 60 others, injured in a stampede during a religious procession here on Saturday, police said.

The stampede occurred at around 1.30 p.m. at the Rajghat bridge in the Ramnagar area, as thousands of people, who had turned up at a religious congregation organised by disciples of the late spiritual leader Jai Gurudev, took out a procession.

Ramanagar police station incharge Anil Kumar Singh told IANS that 19 people were killed in the stampede and over 60 injured.

Police attributed the stampede to the "impatience" among the participants due to the prevailing heat and humidity, and also noted that while the organisers had sought permission for presence of around 3,000 people, nearly 80,000 had turned up.

India's forex reserves slip to $367 billion

India's foreign exchange reserves dipped to $367.64 billion as on October 7, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said.

According to data released by the RBI on Friday, the reserves stood at around $367.64 billion as on October 7, as against $371.99 billion on September 30.

On October 7, the foreign currency assets stood at $342.39 billion, gold at $21.40 billion, special drawing rights $1.47 billion and the reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at $2.36 billion.

Obama heckled in Cleveland by pro-Trump protester

Washington, Oct 14 : US President Barack Obama was heckled for the second consecutive day prompting him to say that the pro-Trump protester was paid.

The incident happened at an election rally in Cleveland, Ohio. Early in the speech as Obama noted that he'd promised to work as hard as he could, a man in the back started heckling.

"While you're not golfing!"

A moment later, the same man began shouting "Bill Clinton's a rapist! Bill Clinton's a rapist!" And he opened his jacket to reveal and T-shirt with Bill Clinton's image and the word "RAPE." There were other hecklers elsewhere in the crowd.

India, Russia seal big ticket defence deals

Benaulim (Goa), Oct 15 : India and Russia on Saturday sealed a number of big ticket defence deals including purchase of missile systems, frigates and joint production of helicopters besides deciding to deepen cooperation in a range of crucial sectors even as the two close allies resolved to fight the menace of terrorism unitedly

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held wide-ranging talks covering the entire expanse of bilateral engagement following which the two sides signed a total of 16 MoUs and made three announcements to boost ties in sectors like trade and investment, hydrocarbons, space and smart cities

The two leaders also dedicated the unit two of Kudankulum nuclear power plant and witnessed foundation laying of its Unit 3 and 4

Rose McGowan claims being raped by Hollywood executive

Actress Rose McGowan has claimed that she was raped by a Hollywood executive.

The 43-year-old made the claim on Twitter as she shared her contribution to the trending hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport, reports mirror.co.uk.

The "Charmed" star alleged that she experienced the terrible ordeal at the hands of a "studio head".

Nicole Kidman felt lonely post her Oscar win

Actress Nicole Kidman, who won the Best Actress accolade at the 2002 Academy Awards for her role in "The Hours", says she realised how "lonely" she was when she didn't have "anyone to share" her Oscar with.

The Oscar win inspired Kidman to find a man to spend her life with, reports etonline.com.

No buyer for Twitter as Salesforce quits race

In a bad news for Twitter, its last potential buyer Salesforce has decided not to make a bid to buy the struggling micro-blogging website.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told the Financial Times that he has "walked away" from making a bid to buy Twitter.

Earlier, Google, Apple and Walt Disney also decided not to bid for the website.

Twitter stocks fell significantly this week after Google and Walt Disney reportedly ruled out to acquire the struggling micro-blogging platform.

Some lovers preferred porn over me: Pamela Anderson

Actress Pamela Anderson says she has dated men who preferred watching pornography to having sex with her.

Anderson has launched a 'Sensual Revolution' campaign with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to try and educate people on the dangers of online pornography, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

She says the volume of X-rated material is damaging men of all ages and she has been in relationships where her partners would lock themselves away in the bathroom to get sexual gratification from the internet rather than make love to her.