Author: IANS

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Not just mobile or PC gaming, the e-sports and particularly fantasy gaming has gained much popularity in India in the recent years and the fantasy sports user base in the country is expected to reach 100 million by next year. The fantasy sports landscape in[Read More…]

By Md Waquar Haider New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) In a major transformation for avid gamers, the arrival of Cloud-based game streaming services like Apple Arcade, Google Stadia and Microsoft Project XCloud is set to rejig the whole experience from traditional PC or mobile-driven gaming. Over a period of time,[Read More…]

By Krishna SinhaChaudhury New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) The Personal Computer (PC) gaming market is perhaps the only silver lining in the struggling PC market, thanks to the ever-growing popularity of gaming and need for a bigger screen experience among the young Indian gamers. According to the International Data Corporations[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) “Yeah PUBG wala hai kya?” Asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi during “Pariksha par Charcha 2.0” in January this year to a parent who said her son plays a lot of video games on mobile. Gaming has grown so dramatically in India that even a grandmother[Read More…]

Chandigarh, Oct 26 (IANS) JJP chief Dushyant Chautala’s security was intensified on Saturday after his party entered into a post-poll alliance with the BJP to claim formation of the government for a second consecutive term in Haryana. The security was beefed up at his residences in Sirsa and Hisar towns.[Read More…]

By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Oct 26 (IANS) India’s family planning profile is unique among many nations for different reasons, feels Professor Amy O. Tsui from the US based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institute. However, the country still battles with certain challenges such as desire for sons over[Read More…]

Islamabad, Oct 26 (IANS) Crucial talks between the government and the opposition over the JUI-F’s October 31 ‘Azadi March’, which will call for Prime Imran Khan’s resignation, ended without any results. The talks took place at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) leader Akram Khan Durrani at around 10.30 p.m.,[Read More…]

Chennai, Oct 26 (IANS) Rescue efforts continued on Saturday to save a two-year-old boy who fell into a 30-ft abandoned borewell in a village in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli district. The boy fell into the borewell at about 5.30 p.m. on Friday. Later at night, he went further down to tube[Read More…]

Rabat, Oct 26 (IANS) The Moroccan police seized on Friday eight tonnes of cannabis in the suburb of the northern city of Tangiers. Five people were arrested for their alleged links to an international drug trafficking network during the operation, said the Moroccan police in a statement. The security operation[Read More…]

Baghdad, Oct 26 (IANS) The Iraqi authorities said on Friday that the casualty toll from the new waves of nationwide protests over unemployment, corruption and lack of public services has risen to 24 dead and more than 2,000 wounded. According to a statement by the Iraqi Independent High Commission for[Read More…]

New York, Oct 26 (IANS) The dollar appreciated in late trading on Friday amid falling sterling, as market participants awaited more updates concerning Brexit. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, was up 0.20 per cent at 97.8311 at 3:00 p.m. (1900 GMT), the Xinhua news[Read More…]

Santiago, Oct 26 (IANS) The number of people killed in Chile rose to 19 on Friday, five of them foreigners, in a week of protests around the country against the government of Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera, during which the military took charge of maintaining order and curfews have been in[Read More…]

Baghdad, Oct 26 (IANS) The Iraqi authorities said on Friday said the casualty toll from the new waves of nationwide protests has risen to 21 dead and 1,779 wounded. According to a statement by the Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights, the 21 protesters were killed by either tear[Read More…]

Washington, Oct 26 (IANS) The US space agency NASA is planning to send a mobile robot to the South Pole of the moon in 2022 to get a close-up view on the water ice in the region and sample it for the first time. NASA announced on Friday that the[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Former Intelligence Bureau Director and Centre’s interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, was on Friday appointed the Administrator of the Union Territory of Lakshwadeep, an official statement said. The Home Ministry statement said Sharma’s tenure would start from the day he assumes charge of[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) A lawyer for senior scribe and former Union Minister M.J. Akbar on Friday asked journalist Priya Ramani’s friend, who was deposing in the defamation case against her, if she was a “ghost in the room” to remember the scene of an alleged sexual harassment so[Read More…]

Bengaluru, Oct 25 (IANS) Emirates is celebrating Diwali by serving Indian sweets and savouries to its passengers on board its flights departing and travelling to India till October 31, the airline said on Friday. “Passengers flying in our aircraft in all classes are treated with Indian sweets and savouries for[Read More…]

Kolkata, Oct 25 (IANS) Two passengers of a circular railway train bound for Habra suffered minor injuries on Friday evening when a crane gave away and fell on the railway track post which got uprooted and crashed against the passing train. The crane, which belonged to the Kolkata port authorities,[Read More…]

Kolkata, Oct 25 (IANS) Doing away with the no-detention policy, the West Bengal government has decided to restore the “pass-fail” system in classes 5 and 8 from the coming academic year, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said on Friday. Thus, students now would have to sit for examinations in classes 5[Read More…]

Satara (Maharashtra), Oct 26 (IANS) A day after he was trounced in the Lok Sabha bypolls to the prestigious Satara constituency, Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale confidently said he is not ‘finished yet’. A descendent of the Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Bhosale said in tweets on Friday: “Have lost today,[Read More…]