THIS WEEK PRINT EDITION
Defence Ministry delegates administrative powers to BRO
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The Defence Ministry on Sunday announced it has delegated administrative and financial powers to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)...
Saudi vaccinates 1.1 mn Haj pilgrims
Riyadh, Aug 20 (IANS) Saudi Arabia on Sunday said its health control centres vaccinated more than 1.1 million pilgrims at ports of entry, the...
10 get death penalty over plot to assassinate Hasina
Dhaka, Aug 20 (IANS) A tribunal here in Bangladesh on Sunday awarded death penalty to 10 people for planting a bomb in 2000 to...
CINEMA
WEATHER
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SPORTS
25,000-seater international standard cricket stadium in Tripura
Agartala, Aug 20: The Tripura Cricket Association (TCA), with financial assistance from the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), would build a...
Sindhu, Saina, Srikanth in focus at Badminton Worlds
Glasgow, Aug 20: Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu, a hungry Saina Nehwal and a reinvigorated Kidambi Srikanth will be in focus when the World...
Ghosh-Sathiyan lose in Bulgarian Open TT final
Panagyurishte (Bulgaria), Aug 20: The Indian table tennis pair of Soumyajit Ghosh and G. Sathiyan came close to toppling the top-seeded Japanese duo of...
HEALTH
Feeling bad without your phone could up anxiety: Study
Seoul, Aug 20 (IANS) Do you tend to panic immediately if your phone runs out of battery or isnt beside you even for a...
Increase in cigarette prices may reduce smoking in elderly
New York, Aug 19 (IANS) Raising cigarette prices by a dollar can increase the possibility of older people quitting smoking by 20 per cent,...
High BP during pregnancy may up heart disease risk later
Toronto, Aug 19 (IANS) Women who experience high blood pressure condition during pregnancy are likely to face an increased risk of heart disease and...
LIFESTYLE
LFW W/F’17: Shraddha Kapoor becomes designer Rahul Mishra’s muse
Mumbai, Aug 19 : Rahul Mishra has maintained distance from calling a Bollywood face as a showstopper. But for his show at the Lakme...
LFW W/F’17: Preity Zinta dazzles on the runway for Shane and Falguni Peacock
Mumbai, Aug 19 : Bollywood actress Preity Zinta turned showstopper for designer duo Shane and Falguni Peacock in an off-shoulder floor-length smoky grey gown...
Wear shoes according to occasion
New Delhi, Aug 18 : Half the battle is won when you are wearing the right footwear with your outfit in sync with the...
SCI-TECH
Now an artificial heart made of spider silk
London, Aug 20 (IANS) Researchers have developed cardiac muscle tissue made of spider silk, to investigate whether artificial silk protein could be suitable for...
Facebook is developing augmented reality glasses
San Francisco, Aug 19 (IANS) A patent application filed earlier this week has revealed that Facebook is working on developing augmented reality (AR) glasses...
Google adds 6-second video preview to mobile search
San Francisco, Aug 19 (IANS) In a major update, search engine giant Google has added a six second video previews to its mobile search...
BUSINESS
Apple releases iOS 11 iPad capabilities in new videos
San Francisco, Aug 19 (IANS) With the public release of iOS 11 a few weeks away, Apple has started showing the new features in...
Steel consumption up 3.7% in July
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) India's steel consumption in July rose by 3.7 per cent to 6.905 million tonnes (mt) over corresponding month last year...
Infosys to buy back 11.3-crore shares at Rs 1,150 each
Bengaluru, Aug 19 (IANS) Global software major Infosys Ltd on Saturday announced that it would buy back 11.3-crore shares of Rs 5 face value...
CINEMA
Iraq launches offensive to retake Tal Afar
Baghdad, Aug 20 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Sunday announced the launch of a military offensive to recover the Tal Afar city...
Netanyahu to meet Putin over ‘recent development’ in Syria
Jerusalem, Aug 20 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia next week to discuss...
UPDATES
NEWS
Hate crime rampant in US: Google’s AI-based site
San Francisco, Aug 20 (IANS) Violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Virginia may have shocked many but hate crime is actually...
Fake news needs the competition: Trump to Bannon
Washington, Aug 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump wished his former chief strategist Steve Bannon well upon his return to the far-right Breitbart News...
SCI-TECH
Scientists use supercomputers to preview total solar eclipse
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Using supercomputers, researchers have forecast how the corona of the sun -- the aura of plasma that surrounds the sun...
Big asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) A large near-Earth asteroid will pass safely by our planet on September 1, at a distance of about seven million...
Twitter suspends neo-Nazi news website account
Los Angeles, Aug 17 (IANS) Twitter has suspended the account of The Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist news and commentary website.The...
HBO’s Twitter, Facebook accounts hacked
San Francisco, Aug 17 (IANS) As HBO struggles to stop "Game of Thrones" (GoT) leaks and tackle hackers' ransom threats, another hacker group has...
Instagram introduces comment threads to make chatting easy
San Francisco, Aug 16 (IANS) Aiming to make chatting with fellow Instagrammers easy, Facebook-owned Instagram on Wednesday introduced comment threads on its platform.Henceforth, users...
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COMMUNITY
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
INDIA NEWS
DIASPORA
Nasdaq celebrates Indian I-Day
New York, Aug 17 (IANS) The Nasdaq stock exchange has celebrated India's 71th Independence Day with Sandeep Chakravorty, India's New York Consul General, ringing...
Indian-origin man awarded $2.9mn after bad reference cost him job
Singapore, Aug 15 (IANS) An Indian-origin man here has got 4 million Singaporean dollars ($2.9 million) in damages from his previous employer after a...
Breast cancer may kill 76,000 Indian women a year by 2020
Dubai, Aug 15 (IANS) Lack of early diagnosis of breast cancer may kill 76,000 Indian women in a year by 2020, says a study,...
Indian origin man in US indicted for bribery
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) An Indian origin man in the US has been indicted on charges of soliciting and accepting bribes while serving as...
Indian American fined $40,000 for bogus visa applications
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) An Indian American businessman in New Hampshire state has been sentenced to three years of probation and fined $40,000 for...
NEWS
Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly assumes new powers
Caracas, Aug 19 (IANS) Venezuela's newly-appointed National Constituent Assembly (ANC) voted unanimously to take over the powers of the opposition-controlled legislature.Friday's vote came after...
