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I will always be the naked girl on a wrecking ball: Miley | Miley Cyrus, while talking about her music video for her song Wrecking Ball, has said that she will always be known as the naked girl on a wrecking ball. She added, "That's my worst nightmare...that [the song] being played at my funeral." She further said, "Once you do that in the mass...it's forever." |
Jimmy Kimmel to host 90th anniversary of Oscars in 2018 | American television host Jimmy Kimmel will host the 90th Oscars in 2018. Kimmel said, "If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!" Referring to 2017 Oscars mix-up, he tweeted, "Thanks for asking me to host The #Oscars again (assuming I opened ... |
I would love to play role of goddess Sita onscreen: Alia | Alia Bhatt has said she would love to play the role of goddess Sita if a film is made on Amish Tripathi's upcoming book Sita - Warrior of Mithila. She added, "Her story that we get to know about in this book isn't known to many." Amish said Ranveer Singh would be able to do justice to Lord Ram's role. |
It'd be easier if I chose to sell kebabs: Huma on nepotism | Huma Qureshi, while talking about nepotism, said, "My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be...easier for me." She added 'star kids' also have to work hard for success in Bollywood. Huma, however, pointed out that it's easier for them to get opportunities and even the... |
Rahane takes catch at boundary, tells umpires it's a six | Rising Pune Supergiant player Ajinkya Rahane took a catch at the boundary against Mumbai Indians on Tuesday, but signalled a six to the umpires. MI needed 36 runs off 7 balls when Mitchell McClenaghan hit Jaydev Unadkat for a six. Rahane caught the ball and threw it towards Steve Smith on losing his balance and touchin... |
Japanese tennis player gets life ban for match fixing | Japanese tennis player Junn Mitsuhashi has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of match fixing. The 27-year-old, who was also fined â¹32 lakh ($50,000), had asked players to underperform at international tournaments in South Africa and Nigeria in 2015. Mitsuhashi had also broken gambling rules by... |
Baseball player gets hit on the face by 150 km/h fastball | American baseball player Chris Iannetta was hit by a 150 km/h pitch during a Major League Baseball game last week. Iannetta was put on a 'seven-day concussion disabled list' after suffering a broken nose, broken teeth and a split upper lip. "Having a busted-up lip and broken teeth is the best-case scenario when you get... |
Amsterdam Mayor opens brothel run by prostitutes | Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan on Wednesday opened a brothel run by prostitutes themselves, in an attempt to improve working conditions in the sex industry. The brothel, an initiative of the city council, has been dubbed "municipal brothel" by people. "Everything...from the statutes to the decoration of the room... |
Arvind Kejriwal hosts dinner for AAP MLAs, families | Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hosted a dinner for all AAP MLAs and their families to debunk the reports of rifts in the party and send out a message of party's unity. Reportedly, the MLAs pledged their support to Kejriwal at the event. However, the dinner was given a miss by Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, Raghav C... |
Times Now files FIR against Arnab Goswami alleging theft | Times Now has filed an FIR against former employees Arnab Goswami and Prema Sridevi, who now work at Goswami's new venture Republic TV, accusing them of theft. Times Now claims that the phone recordings played during Shashi Tharoor and Lalu Prasad Yadav's exposé on Republic TV, were procured and accessed while both of... |
'Simran' writer says Kangana lied about co-writing script | 'Simran' writer Apurva Asrani in a Facebook post alleged that Kangana Ranaut has been lying about co-writing the script. Asrani, claiming that he wrote nine drafts for the script, said that he was told Kangana is turning director and demanding a co-writer credit after the film's first cut. He added that he eventually a... |
Tech industry works like this: Instagram on copying Snapchat | Instagram's VP of Product Kevin Weil, when questioned about the platform copying features introduced by Snapchat, said, "This is the way the tech industry works." He added, "Good ideas start in one place and spread across the industry...Kudos to Snapchat for being the first." Weil compared the 'Stories' feature to hash... |
Women can pronounce triple talaq too: Muslim law board | The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a Muslim woman had every right to pronounce triple talaq in all forms, and also ask for a very high 'mehr' (alimony) amount in case of talaq. This comes after the apex court asked the law board if a woman can say no to triple talaq. |
Fans don't care about pain: Salman on his facial disorder | Salman Khan, while talking about his facial nerve disorder trigeminal neuralgia, said that fans don't care about the pain. He added that no matter how much pain he is going through, he can't put subtitles in the scenes stating that his ligament is torn or his knee is hurting. Salman added that patients suffering from t... |
11-year-old Indian-origin boy hacks cybersecurity experts | Reuben Paul, an 11-year-old Indian-origin boy, on Tuesday successfully hacked into the Bluetooth devices of cybersecurity experts at the World Forum in The Hague. Paul then controlled a Bluetooth-connected teddy bear via one of audience member's hacked phones to turn on the toy's lights and record a message. He demonst... |
Kejriwal went to office twice in last one year: Kapil Mishra | Sacked Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra has claimed that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been to the office only twice in the last one year. "New corruption cases are coming to light every day...but the CM seems to be unaffected by all this. Kejriwal, who is completely cut off from public life, has time to watch (movie) ... |
Which entrepreneurs are in Forbes Global Game Changers List? | Over 15 startup founders are in the Forbes Global Game Changers List 2017, including Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, Slack's Stewart Butterfield, and ride-hailing startup Didi Chuxing's Cheng Wei. Self-driving tech startup Mobileye's Ziv Aviram, Amnon Shashua, money transfer service Transferwise's Taavet Hinrikus, Kristo KäÃ... |
Paytm appoints Renu Satti as upcoming Payments Bank CEO | Paytm on Wednesday announced it will be launching its Payments Bank operations from May 23 and appointed Renu Satti as the latter's CEO. Satti replaces Shinjini Kumar, a former central banker and senior executive at consultancy PwC, who was named as Paytm Payments Bank CEO last year. Satti has worked with Paytm's paren... |
Earth's nearest exoplanet could be habitable: Study | A UK-based study has claimed that planet 'Proxima b', orbiting Earth's nearest star 'Proxima Centauri' could be habitable. Researchers simulated various orbital periods for Proxima b and concluded it could host life if its atmosphere was similar to that of Earth. This comes after a recent NASA study that ruled out its ... |
NASA shares first person view of a spacewalk | NASA has recently shared an 'Action Cam Footage' of a spacewalk performed by US astronauts Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough outside the International Space Station (ISS) on March 30. During the maintenance work, one of the station's shields was accidentally lost. However, the astronauts installed a previously removed ... |
Macron is 39-yr-old lad with good-looking mum: Ex-Italian PM | Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday described French President Emmanuel Macron as a "39-year-old lad with a with a good-looking mum", in an apparent dig at the age gap between Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux. Notably, Berlusconi, aged 80, is 49 years older than his partner Francesca Pascale. |
Turkish President's bodyguards clash with protesters in US | Nine people were reportedly injured on Tuesday as violent clashes erupted in Washington, DC between the bodyguards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan, who is on a visit to the US, and people protesting against his policies. The protesters carried the flag of the Kurdish PYD party which is considered as a terror... |
Trump asked ex-FBI chief to end Russia investigation: Report | US President Donald Trump asked James Comey, the former FBI director he fired, to end a federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia, according to a New York Times report. However, the White House has called the report as "not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president... |
Time to assassinate Syrian President Assad: Israeli minister | Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Galant has reportedly said that it is time to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after the US claimed to have evidence that Syrian authorities are burning bodies to hide mass killings by the government. The minister added that Assad's actions in Syria amount to nothing less than ... |
What is Antikythera mechanism, today's Google doodle? | Google celebrated the 115th anniversary of Antikythera mechanism's discovery with a doodle on Wednesday. On 17 May 1902, a Greek archaeologist found a bronze artefact from a shipwreck which turned out to be part of the Antikythera Mechanism, an analog computer dated to 150 BC. The gear-like structure tracked planetary ... |
Pet dog sentenced to death for biting child in Pakistan | A pet dog in Pakistan was sentenced to death on Tuesday for biting a child. Assistant Commissioner Raja Saleem said the sentence was announced on humanitarian grounds, adding that there is a case against its owner in a civil court. The owner has filed an appeal against the death sentence, saying his dog has already "co... |
Porn streamed at Washington train station | Porn was streamed on a digital ad monitor at a train station in Washington, United States on Monday evening. The footage, which appeared to come from PornHub, reportedly played for a few minutes before a nearby restaurant employee helped switch it off. It remains unclear whether the incident was caused by hackers or em... |
UP woman kidnaps man from his wedding venue for ditching her | A woman kidnapped a man from his wedding venue in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur for allegedly ditching her. The man had dated the woman for several months and was getting married to the woman of his parents' choice. The kidnapper woman arrived at the mandap in an SUV, took out a pistol and asked the groom to sit in the car. |
Sushant to provide free education to underprivileged kids | Sushant Singh Rajput is launching an initiative to provide free education to underprivileged children. Talking about it, he said his team is working on selecting a group of schools, where the children will take a merit test and if they pass, they will be provided free education for a year. He added that this process wi... |
Tendulkar shatters glass with bat on sets of Marathi TV show | Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recently shot for a Marathi TV show, Chala Hawa Yeu Dya, and was spotted shattering a sheet of glass with a cricket bat. Tendulkar, who was accompanied by wife Anjali, shattered the glass sheet to reveal the poster of his upcoming film 'Sachin: A Billion Dreams'. The movie is set to re... |
India to tour West Indies after Champions Trophy in June | BCCI has announced the fixtures of India's tour to West Indies, scheduled to be held four days after the ICC Champions Trophy in England in June. India will play five ODIs and a lone T20I in the series, which starts from June 23 and ends July 9. Notably, the ICC Champions Trophy is beginning ten days after the IPL ends... |
Elon Musk jokes about low expectations from his new startup | Elon Musk on Wednesday tweeted a pun about 'low' expectations from his newly-launched tunnelling startup, 'The Boring Company'. The startup aims to create an underground tunnel network to let cars bypass traffic by transporting them at 200 kmph on electric sleds. Musk's original idea for the startup was considered a jo... |
21-year-old dies after being hit with a bat during match | A 21-year-old amateur cricketer died after accidentally being hit with a bat of another player during a friendly match in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The cricketer was fielding when he was hit on the forehead by the bat and fell on stones which were kept as stumps. He was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. |
Delta Air Lines to use face-scanners for checked-in baggage | Delta Air Lines will test a self-service bag drop machine which will use a facial recognition system to match passengers with their passport photos, starting summer. Passengers will scan their passports, have their identity verified by the face-scanner and drop their checked-in baggage. Delta, which is spending $600,00... |
Man arrested after 40 years on run, let off with â¹100 fine | Rajasthan Police on Tuesday arrested a man, Motilal Nai, who was on the run for nearly 40 years but let him off with a â¹100 fine. A district court had issued an arrest warrant against Nai in 1976 for selling sweets made from adulterated milk. He fled to Andhra Pradesh and came back after his wife's demise recently, c... |
82-yr-old ex-Haryana CM passes Class 12 exam from Tihar jail | Former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala has passed Class 12th examination with first division at the age of 82 years from Tihar jail. Chautala, who was convicted in the teachers' recruitment scam, is planning to pursue an undergraduate course. Chautala was on parole in April but he went back to jail for the examination a... |
What is bitcoin, the currency demanded by cyberattackers? | Bitcoin is a digital currency that is not tied to a bank or government and allows users to spend money anonymously. Bitcoins are generated by a process called 'mining' where individuals are rewarded by the network for their services. Bitcoins can be exchanged with other currencies. Cyberattackers usually prefer payment... |
Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone returns to company after 6 yrs | Twitter's Co-founder Biz Stone has returned to the company six years after he left it in 2011. In a blog post, Stone wrote, "My excitement at the chance to work on Twitter again is over-the-moon". Stone recently sold the company he founded, Jelly, to Pinterest, and the deal did not require him to work at the company an... |
3D-printed ovaries help infertile mice to give birth | US-based scientists have 3D printed ovary implants that allowed three of seven infertile lab mice to give birth to healthy pups. Researchers created the implants by printing porous scaffolds and filling them with follicles, sacs that contain immature egg cells. The work could lead to artificial ovaries for women whose ... |
SC asks Muslim law board if women can refuse triple talaq | The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) if it was possible for a woman to say no to triple talaq. The law board has contended that instant triple talaq was not a popular way to end a marriage and such cases accounted for only 0.44% of divorces among Muslims. |
Undisclosed income over â¹16,000 crore detected post note ban | Undisclosed income of â¹16,398 crore has been identified following the Centre's demonetisation decision till March, Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman Sushil Chandra has said. Moreover, since the note ban, as many as 17.92 lakh persons have been identified whose cash transactions did not appear in line with the ta... |
Mukesh Ambani in Forbes Global Game Changers List 2017 | Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has been featured in the Forbes Global Game Changers List for 2017. "The oil and gas tycoon entered India's telecom market offering fast internet at dirt-cheap prices and gained 10 crore customers in six months," wrote Forbes. The list also includes Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel a... |
Ads preach we'll have better jobs if we are fair: Abhay | Abhay Deol, in a column on racism, has written Indian advertisements preach we would get a better job and a happier marriage if we were fair. Stating he grew up believing fairer is better, Abhay added, "If colour is what we are obsessing about, when are we ever going to discuss...important issues of caste, religion, co... |
SpaceX to send ashes of 300 people into space for â¹1.6 lakh | US startup Elysium Space has partnered with Elon Musk-led SpaceX to launch ashes of 300 people into space. The spacecraft, reservations on which will cost â¹1.6 lakh per person, will travel around Earth and "pass over every location in the world." Following the two-year journey, the spacecraft will re-enter Earth's o... |
Amazon India's payments arm secures â¹67 crore in funding | E-commerce major Amazon India's payments portal Amazon Pay has received funding worth â¹67 crore ($10.46 million) from its Singapore-based arm Amazon Corporate Holdings and parent company Amazon. The payments arm has also been rebranded to Amazon Pay (India) Pvt Ltd. The change in the name comes after Amazon received ... |
Girl begs for cancer treatment, video goes viral after death | A video of a 13-year-old Andhra Pradesh girl begging her father to save her life by providing Cancer treatment has gone viral as she lost her life to the illness. The girl was seen begging her father to sell their house. Notably, Sri's father threw her and her mother out of the house after the video went viral. |
Hyderabad Int'l Airport south India's 1st to go 100% LED-lit | The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad is set to become south India's first airport to go 100% LED-lit. With the entire Taxiway Edge Lights converted from halogen lamps to energy efficient LEDs, the authorities claimed that 75% work on the project has been completed. Of the 26,000 conventional lamps... |
IAS officer found lying dead on road in Lucknow | An Indian Administration Services (IAS) officer, Anurag Tewari, was found lying dead by the roadside in Lucknow's Hazratganj area on Wednesday morning. Tewari, a 2007 batch Karnataka cadre officer, was staying at a guest house in the area. The police confirmed that the officer had no injury on his body apart from one o... |
Japanese theme park sets up fake fights to impress dates | A theme park in Japan allows guests to hire fake fighters who pretend to punch them so they can impress their dates. Hired actors at Hirakata Park are tasked with "attacking" guests, but ensuring the latter win the fight. The theme park also allows guests to 'be heroes' by pretending to defuse bombs and donating blood. |
Hindi cinema needs to raise its standards: Irrfan Khan | Actor Irrfan Khan has said that Hindi cinema needs to raise its standard as Hollywood films are dividing business of Hindi cinema and from other side, regional films are getting better. Irrfan added, "Southern films like Baahubali has the capacity to capture whole market of India therefore, Hindi cinema need to come up... |
BBC presenter hit on live TV after touching woman's breast | BBC presenter Ben Brown was hit on live TV after appearing to touch a woman's breast as he pushed her away when she interrupted an interview. The woman had stepped into the shot, saying, "absolutely fantastic" with a thumbs up. The BBC said it would not take action against Brown, adding that the incident was "clearly a... |
India openers came to know of their world record on WhatsApp | India women's openers Poonam Raut and Deepti Sharma, who set a record for the highest-ever ODI opening stand, came to know of their record through a WhatsApp group. Poonam revealed they were informed after they were done with their post-match recovery session. The two shared a stand of 320 runs, becoming the first wome... |
Drunk Australian assaults police at Singapore Airport | A 44-year-old Australian national has been charged with 11 offences after allegedly assaulting police officers at Singapore Airport while he was drunk. Jason Peter Darragh, who was approached by police officers because he reportedly threw another man's phone on the ground, yelled, "Don't touch me, f**khead," and knocke... |
Airline starts charging parents for bringing babies onboard | Australian airline Jetstar has started charging passengers $30 for flying with babies on their laps. It has also increased the charge for international travel with babies, from $40 to $50. A Jetstar spokesperson announced that the new fees apply to passengers carrying children below the age of two, and allow four infan... |
New Zealand's penguins facing extinction, scientists warn | A New Zealand-based study predicts the continuing population decline of the country's yellow-eyed penguin could lead to its extinction by 2060. Researchers said that climate factors and rising ocean temperatures were accountable for one-third of the loss while humans could be blamed for the other part. Human impact lik... |
April 2017 was the second-warmest April ever recorded: NASA | April 2017 was the second-warmest April in 137 years of modern record-keeping of average global temperatures, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The temperature in April 2017 was 0.18ºC cooler than in 2016, which was hottest on record, 1.06ºC warmer than the month's mean temperature. GISS... |
NASA scientists study flashes from Earth's atmosphere | NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has caught hundreds of flashes reflecting off the Earth since its launch in 2015. In previous studies of flashes captured by Galileo spacecrafts in 1993, scientists only studied reflections off oceans. However, in the new study, NASA scientists deciphered the cause to the ... |
Video predicts what world would be like in one billion years | A recently released video explores what the world would be like in the next billion years. Starting with the year 10,000, human genetic variation is expected to be evenly distributed around the globe. Further, at 50,000, Earth would likely enter its next glacial period, while at 50 million years, Africa would collide w... |
Twitter users troll rompers introduced for men | Several people took to Twitter to troll rompers named 'RompHim', which have been introduced for men by the company ACED Design. "[Don't] know if I'm romper ready tbh. I need to tone my calfs a little more," tweeted a user. "Making sure nobody in the bathroom before I take my romper off to pee in peace," read another tw... |
Playboy model who shared woman's naked pic to face trial | Playboy model Dani Mathers, who shared a picture of a naked 70-year-old woman in a gym bathroom will not avoid trial, ruled a judge. She claimed the privacy law she was charged with violating was too ambiguous as the 'victim's features could not be identified'. The judge, however, rejected her argument and set a trial ... |
Man City back in 3rd place, Arsenal fight for top 4 finish | Manchester City defeated West Brom 3-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday to move to third place and a point away from ensuring a top four finish. Arsenal, at fifth place, registered a 2-0 victory over Sunderland to move within one point of fourth-placed Liverpool. Arsenal need a win from their final match to remain in... |
Pune beat Mumbai to qualify for IPL 2017 final | Rising Pune Supergiant defeated Mumbai Indians by 20 runs on Tuesday to qualify for the final of the IPL 2017. Mumbai will now play the winner of the Eliminator, to be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Pune spinner Washington Sundar, aged 17 years and 223 days, became the youngest player to ... |
Virat Kohli explains how time can always be on your side | Pain and struggles in life will always try to hold you back, but take them in your stride to keep running forward. Indian captain Virat Kohli believes time will always be on your side if you're running its course. In a video for Tissot, Kohli captures the essence of turning your losses into strengths in style and ownin... |
Radio Song from Salman Khan starrer Tubelight released | Radio Song, the first track from the Salman Khan starrer Tubelight, was released on Tuesday. Composed by Pritam, it was sung by Kamaal Khan and Amit Mishra with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya. Notably, the song's video has been released with sub-titles in 14 languages, which includes Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil,... |
Maria Sharapova denied wildcard for French Open | Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has been denied a wildcard for the French Open after failing to qualify on the basis of ranking points. "There cannot be a wildcard for return from doping," French Tennis Federation President Bernard Giudicelli said. Sharapova made a comeback from her 15-month dope ban last month, ... |
Massive database of 56 crore passwords discovered online | A massive insecure database of over 56 crore emails and passwords has been discovered by researchers from the Kromtech Security Research Center. The database compiler appears to have collected these logins from hugely popular sites such as LinkedIn, Adobe and Dropbox, which were recently hacked. The database discovery ... |
Which states has BJP won since forming central govt in 2014? | The BJP has won elections in 11 states since it formed the government at the Centre in May 2014. It won a clear majority in six states and formed alliances in the rest. It won Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Haryana, Maharashtra and Sikkim in 2014, Assam in 2016 and Goa, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarak... |
Promo of Bigg Boss in Tamil with Kamal Haasan as host out | The promo of the Tamil version of Bigg Boss, featuring Kamal Haasan as host, has been released. "Reaching more of those I love...Can't live without people. Soon with you on Vijay TV," tweeted Haasan while sharing the promo. Earlier, Haasan said, "Reality television is so far not a reality in my career. I want to see wh... |
Company that won â¹3,200 crore against Facebook sues Samsung | American games company ZeniMax, which won â¹3,200 crore in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned Oculus earlier this year, has now sued Samsung over Gear VR headset. The lawsuit claims Samsung knowingly made use of Oculus technology that was first developed at ZeniMax and allegedly stolen by an Oculus executive. Zenimax ... |
10-year-old rape victim forced to move SC to abort foetus | A 10-year-old rape victim in Haryana's Rohtak area was forced to move the Supreme Court to abort her 5-month-old foetus which was a result of the sexual assault by her stepfather. According to the doctors, the victim is "nearly" 20-week pregnant and might have crossed the legal termination limit allowed in India withou... |
Indian media watchdog seeks jurisdiction over social media | Press Council of India chairman Justice (retd) CK Prasad has said that social media should be brought under the ambit of the media watchdog. Prasad cited social media's much larger reach than print media as a reason. Social media uses the "same alphabet" as the print media, so why the former should be excluded from PCI... |
No clean chit yet for Army Major who tied man to jeep | The Defence Ministry has dismissed a report which claimed that an Army Court of Inquiry gave a 'clean chit' to an Army Major who had tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep as a human shield against stone-pelters. An official said the probe into the matter is "still incomplete". The incident had taken place during Srinagar by-po... |
India second best place for renewable energy investment | India has overtaken the US to become the second-most attractive country after China for renewable energy investment, according to a report by UK accountancy firm EY. The firm attributed India's rise to the second spot to "government's programme to build 175 gigawatts in renewable energy generation by 2022 and have rene... |
51k SC/STs lose incentives as TN uploaded wrong bank details | Nearly 51,000 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students in Tamil Nadu lost out on their promised incentives worth crores under a central government educational scheme as the state government allegedly uploaded incorrect bank details. As per reports, the Centre recently recalled the unutilised funds from the bank thr... |
Arunachal woman unfurls Tricolour at Everest for fourth time | Arunachal Pradesh's Anshu Jamsenpa has become the first Indian woman to scale the Mount Everest for the fourth time. Jamsenpa, a mother of two, had started the summit expedition on May 13 and reached the Everest peak on Tuesday to unfurl the national flag. She had scaled the world's highest peak twice in 2011 and once ... |
EU refuses to sign trade statement at China's OBOR summit | Several European Union countries including France, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Portugal and Britain have refused to sign a trade statement at China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) summit, according to reports. This is seen as a setback to China's efforts to gain full support for its initiative which it hopes will revive anci... |
Gigi Hadid poses at NASA Space Centre for magazine shoot | Model Gigi Hadid has featured in a cover shoot for Harper's Bazaar US, which was shot at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gigi is seen wearing a metallic silver cape, coat and boots from Chanel in the cover shot. She also posed in a glittery Gucci jumpsuit outside the Apollo 14 Crew Capsule. |
Suite Life actor Cole shares "psycho baby" Mother's Day poem | 'The Suite Life of Zack & Cody' actor Cole Sprouse, on the occasion of Mother's Day on Sunday, tweeted a poem he wrote for his mother when he was younger. It said, "if anyone ever takes us apart. Id repededly (sic) stab them in the heart." Sprouse captioned the viral post, "I was a psycho baby before it was hip." |
Why can't I not have an opinion as a celebrity: Katrina | Katrina Kaif has said that as a celebrity she doesn't feel the need to have an opinion on everything while adding, "Why can't I not have an opinion?" She added, "I'm not well informed about half the things that go on in the world. Until I really want to sit down and do my research, I'd rather not say anything." |
McDonald's pulls advert accused of exploiting child's grief | McDonald's has pulled its new 'Dad' TV advert, which shows a boy asking about his dead father, and apologised after being accused of exploiting childhood bereavement. The advert shows a mother telling her son, "That was your dad's favourite too," as he eats a Filet-O-Fish burger. The UK's advertising authority said, "S... |
Lalu refers to I-T dept as BJP's 'new alliance partners' | After the I-T Department conducted raids at 22 locations in connection with benami land deals involving Lalu Prasad Yadav, the RJD chief tweeted, "Congratulations to BJP on its new alliance partners." In a series of tweets, he vowed to fight the allegations till his last breath and asserted that his party's alliance wi... |
Anas breaks 400m national record, qualifies for world c'ship | Sprinter Muhammed Anas broke the 400-metre national record at the Indian Grand Prix in New Delhi on Monday to qualify for the upcoming World Championships in London in August. The 22-year-old clocked 45.32 seconds, within the London qualification time of 45.50 seconds, to better former sprinter KM Binu's previous natio... |
BJP to woo Karnataka voters with kabaddi tournaments | BJP Yuva Morcha will organise kabaddi tournaments in Karnataka as part of the centenary celebrations of the party ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya. The tournaments will see participation of 20 teams in each Assembly constituency. "We hope that the event will help... impress the huge gatherings that will turn up at these k... |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shares his birthday picture | Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who celebrated his 33rd birthday on May 14, has shared his birthday picture clicked with his employees. The photo also shows Zuckerberg's birthday cake, which is shaped like pieces of meat. "I'm thankful for another year with all of you," wrote Zuckerberg as he shared his bi... |
UP village panchayat orders rape victim to marry her rapist | The panchayat of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district has allegedly ordered a rape survivor to marry her rapist. The elders in the village termed the marriage as an 'appropriate justice' for the woman. The father and relatives of the accused had also offered the woman an amount of â¹1 lakh but she had re... |
We hope for sovereign, independent, united Palestine: India | Ahead of his upcoming visit to Israel, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. After holding extensive talks with Abbas, Modi said that India hopes to see a sovereign, independent, united and viable Palestine, coexisting peacefully with Isra... |
Bengaluru Metro fined â¹5L for dumping concrete waste in lake | The Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority (KLCDA) has levied a fine of â¹5 lakh on Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation for dumping concrete waste into the city's Mylasandra Lake. Metro rail officials have been given a week to respond to the illegal debris dumping. The metro rail body will have to clean up... |
Ukraine bans Russian social networks as part of sanctions | Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has imposed a ban on Russia's social media networks and internet services as part of economic sanctions against Russia. The sanctions were imposed over Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and its alleged support to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Other restrictions li... |
Bajaj Auto Chairman's twin nephews become billionaires | The twin nephews of Bajaj Auto's Chairman Rahul Bajaj, Anurang Jain and Tarang Jain, have both become billionaires with a net worth of $1.1 billion each. Anurang Jain's fortune soared 74% since his company Endurance Technologies' October IPO, while Tarang's fortune is based on the valuation of closely held Varroc Group... |
Dutt plans to set up affordable drug rehab centres in India | Actor Sanjay Dutt plans to set up affordable drug rehabilitation centres across India and is in talks with the government for necessary approvals. "I could opt for [expensive de-addiction] treatment and rehab in America because my family could afford it. Not everyone can," said Dutt. Earlier, he confessed trying every ... |
Shilpa, Raj slap â¹100 crore defamation notice on businessman | Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra have slapped a defamation notice of â¹100 crore on businessman Ravi Mohanlal Bhalotia. The textile firm owner earlier accused the couple of cheating him of almost â¹24 lakh by selling his firm's bedsheets but not paying him his dues. A quashing petition against Bhalotia's case... |
Which Indian cities were worst hit by WannaCry malware? | According to cybersecurity company Quick Heal, Kolkata was the worst-hit Indian city by WannaCry ransomware. This was followed by Delhi, Bhubaneshwar, Pune, and Mumbai. The malware was confirmed to have hit offices of West Bengal electricity distribution company that cater to 8 lakh households, Gujarat government's 120... |
Startup sued for encouraging sexual intercourse at workplace | San Francisco-based startup UploadVR has been sued by a former executive for setting up a 'kink room' to "encourage sexual intercourse at the workplace." The lawsuit alleges that UploadVR co-founders, who are among Forbes' 30 under 30, discussed "how many girls they were going to have sex with" and male employees openl... |
Atif Aslam sings Musafir for Sweetiee Weds NRI | Pakistani singer Atif Aslam has sung the song 'Musafir' for the upcoming film 'Sweetiee Weds NRI'. Palak Muchhal has composed the song, penned its lyrics and sung it along with Aslam. Starring Himansh Kohli and Zoya Afroz in lead roles, the film is scheduled to release on June 2. |
Trump contradicts own team, says he shared info with Russia | After White House denied that US President Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian officials last week, Trump tweeted, "As President, I wanted to share with Russia which I have the absolute right to do." Trump added that he shared facts "pertaining to terrorism and flight safety" because he wants... |
Andhra amends law to appoint PV Sindhu as elite officer | The Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday passed an amendment to its public services law to appoint Olympics silver medal-winning shuttler PV Sindhu as a Group-1 officer in the government. Certain provisions in the law had earlier prevented Sindhu's appointment as any recruitment in public service should be made through t... |
Indian-origin researcher links ransomware attack to N Korea | An Indian-origin security researcher with Google, Neel Mehta, has found similarities between code used in 'WannaCry' ransomware cyber attack and tools believed to have been created by North Korean hackers earlier. Mehta has published a code which a Russian security firm has termed as the "most significant clue to date"... |
Chidambaram's mails, hard disks to be examined: CBI on raids | Addressing the media after raids at the residences of former Union Minister P Chidambaram and his son, CBI Joint Director V Vinayak on Tuesday said emails and hard disks recovered need to be examined. Claiming that searches are underway, Vinayak added, "We have set process of investigation in motion. All people whose i... |
AIADMK has split into 3 different groups: Party leader | The AIADMK party has now split into three factions led by party General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan along with her nephew TTV Dinakaran, O Panneerselvam, and Chief Minister E Palaniswami, party leader KC Palanisamy said. Further, Palanisamy claimed that "blasphemous" utterings by some members who have joined AIADMK in... |
Snapdealâs legal head quits amid merger talks with Flipkart | Snapdeal Group's General Counsel Ashish Chandra has quit ahead of the Snapdeal-Flipkart merger finalisation. With Chandra's exit, Group CFO Anup Vikal has been given the additional role of General Counsel. Chandra, who joined Snapdeal in 2014 and created a team of 22 attorneys, disclosed that he has recently made an an... |
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