THIS WEEK PRINT EDITION
Rahul Gandhi inaugurates Indira Canteens in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 16 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday inaugurated Indira Canteens here for the poor, saying even the "poorest and the...
Doklam standoff enters third month; China asks India to withdraw
Beijing, Aug 16 (IANS) As the standoff in Doklam entered the third month, China on Wednesday renewed its call for India to withdraw troops...
After Dalai Lama cancels visit, China says Botswana ties will progress
Beijing, Aug 14 (IANS) Days after the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama cancelled his visit to Botswana, China said its ties with the African...
CINEMA
WEATHER
Chicago, IL
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75 ° F
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73.4 °
69%
2.2mph
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75 °
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80 °
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81 °
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SPORTS
Excited Rohit says vice-captaincy a huge honour
Kandy, Aug 16: Indian batsman Rohit Sharma on Wednesday said that he is excited to step on to the field as the team's new...
Villarreal signs Bacca on loan from Milan
Villa-real (Spain), Aug 16: Colombian international forward Carlos Bacca has joined Spanish football club Villarreal on a season-long loan deal from Milan, the La...
CoA demands ouster of BCCI office-bearers for non-compliance
New Delhi, Aug 16: The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) on Wednesday pulled up the BCCI by demanding the ouster of acting President...
HEALTH
Tweets can signal health issues: Report
New York, Aug 15 (IANS) The way people express their opinions and emotions on microblogging site Twitter may signal the rise of influenza, depression...
Binge-watching TV may cut sleep quality, up insomnia risk
London, Aug 15 (IANS) Young adults with the habit of binge-watching television shows for over three hours in one sitting may be at risk...
Deep sleep reinforces learning of motor skills: Study
San Francisco, Aug 14 (IANS) Neuroscientists at the University of California here have discovered that the animal brain reinforces motor skills during deep sleep.In...
LIFESTYLE
Radhika to walk for designer Sailesh Singhania
Mumbai, Aug 14 ; Actress Radhika Apte will walk for designer Sailesh Singhania, who will showcase his collection titled "The Winter Rose" at Lakme...
Ileana D’Cruz showstopper for designer Nancy Luharuwalla at LFW
Mumbai, Aug 14 ; Actress Ileana Dcruz will be seen as the showstopper for designer Nancy Luharuwalla of the brand De Belle at the...
Skin care is important for men too
New Delhi, Aug 13 : As compared to women, the skin of men has more collagen and elastin that makes their skin thick and...
SCI-TECH
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...
Facebook updates News Feed for easier navigation
San Francisco, Aug 16 (IANS) To make News Feed more conversational and easier to read and navigate, Facebook has made a few updates to...
Apple changes Maps icon to show new spaceship campus
Since the announcement of iOS 11 in its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple has been tinkering with app icons in the beta version...
BUSINESS
Huawei ‘Mate 10’ with bezel-less display leaked
San Francisco, Aug 16 (IANS) The "leaked" first renders of Huawei's next flagship smartphone "Mate 10" give an insight into the bezel-less design that...
Google buys Indian-origin professor’s health monitoring start-up
San Francisco, Aug 16 (IANS) Google has acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle-based health monitoring start-up founded by University of Washington Professor Shwetak Patel, the...
Coal India to incur Rs 8,500 cr capital expenditure in 2017-18
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) Coal India Ltd (CIL), which produces 84 per cent of the country's total output of the mineral, has planned to...
CINEMA
Nepal floods: Death toll reaches 64
ArrayKathmandu, Aug 14 (IANS) The death toll triggered by floods in Nepal over the past three days has risen to 64, the Home Ministry...
Iraqi PM vows to free ‘every inch’ of land from IS
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to liberate "every inch" of Iraq's land from Islamic State (IS), confirming that Iraqi...
UPDATES
NEWS
Both sides to be blamed for Charlottesville violence: Trump
New York, Aug 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump blamed both neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups and leftist demonstrators who confronted them for the...
Intel CEO is third executive to leave Trump council
Washington, Aug 15 (IANS) Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has announced his resignation from President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council, becoming the third executive to...
SCI-TECH
Facebook deletes Charlottesville viral attack links
Charlottesville, Aug 15 (IANS) Facebook is deleting the link to a blog post that attacked a victim of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.The...
SpaceX launches cargo to space station
Washington, Aug 15 (IANS) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Monday, sending the US space firm's last new first-generation Dragon...
Earth’s largest volcanic region discovered in Antartica
London, Aug 14 (IANS) The largest volcanic region on Earth -- with nearly 100 volcanoes -- has been discovered two km below the surface...
Smiley emojis in formal e-mails can undermine your ability
New York, Aug 14 (IANS) If you have the habit of including a smiley face emoji in your e-mails to your boss to create...
Facebook closes street artist’s page for ‘hate speech’
New York, Aug 14 (IANS) Facebook has "unpublished" a page run by a street artist who attacked the social network's founder and CEO Mark...
TODAY'S EXCHANGE RATE
INR - Indian Rupee
USD
64.1896
GBP
82.6064
CAD
50.4199
AUD
50.4368
EUR
75.1660
COMMUNITY
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
INDIA NEWS
DIASPORA
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...
US driver faces charges after child found dead in van
Washington, Aug 9 (IANS) A day-care centre driver is facing charges in Florida state of the US after a three-year-old boy was found dead...
NEWS
Indian Embassy in Nepal marks Independence Day
Kathmandu, Aug 15 (IANS) The Indian Embassy here celebrated India's 71st Independence Day at a public ceremony on Tuesday.Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri hoisted...
