The hit sitcom “Game of Thrones” will now return in 2019 after a year’s gap, say officials. After long speculation about the air date of the eighth and final season, the HBO show is taking a year off and will return with the new season. It is still unclear at[Read More…]
Pakistan on Thursday released a video of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav who says he has not been tortured in custody and that he saw an Indian diplomat “yelling” at his mother and wife after they met him last month. Sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges[Read More…]
Facebook is running a small test to let users post their Instagram “Stories” directly to WhatsApp Status. The new feature will let users post decorated photos, videos, and GIFs on WhatsApp which will disappear after 24 hours. “An Instagram Story posted as a WhatsApp Status also becomes encrypted like the[Read More…]
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced the Value Added Tax (VAT) for the first time from Monday. It is a five per cent tax on most goods and services to boost revenue. The VAT will be applied to food, clothes, electronics and gasoline, phone, water, and[Read More…]
By accident or by design, I saw three masterpieces of varying degrees from the West that left me enthralled in different ways — Stephen Chbosky’s “Wonder”, Andy Serkis’ “Breathe” and Luca Guadgnino’s “Call Me By Your Name”. The last one, especially, is a sumptuous, gorgeously-layered luminous look at love from[Read More…]
The British police chief in charge of child protection says an estimated 20,000 men have shown an interest in sexually abusing children, the media reported. Officer Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on child protection, on Friday said investigators monitoring a single online chatroom in 2017 identified 4,000[Read More…]
Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is yet to finalise the names of candidates for three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi which are falling vacant next month, with party leaders Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh emerging as the possible choices. AAP sources said that the process of consultations was still on[Read More…]
Be it Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Thor or Hulk, stories about superheroes battling super villains in a fantasy world turned out to be the hit formula for Hollywood at the Indian box office this year. Even as Indian actresses Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone didn’t quite live up to box office[Read More…]
Popular photo-sharing platform Snapchat is working on extending the reach of its “Stories” feature on the web as it also continues to test a major redesign of its Android and iOS apps, reports say. “Snapchat is developing a new product called ‘Stories Everywhere’ with a goal of making ‘Stories’ available[Read More…]
Sri Lanka will convert two large garbage dumps here into urban parks next year as part of a city beautification programme, a minister announced on Tuesday. Addressing the Colombo City Beautification Awards Ceremony in Colombo, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said that garbage could no longer be dumped[Read More…]
Machine learning (ML) systems, an element of what is known as Artificial Intelligence (AI), can outperform people in a number of tasks though they are unlikely to replace people in all jobs, say researchers. In a “Policy Forum” commentary published in the journal Science, Tom Mitchell of Carnegie Mellon University[Read More…]
The mother and wife of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav met him on Monday at the Pakistan Foreign Office for about 40 minutes, but with a glass panel separating them and spoke through a speakerphone. The Pakistan Foreign Office released photos of Jadhav, who is on death row, meeting his[Read More…]
The relatives of Kulbhushan Jadhav will reach Islamabad on Monday for a scheduled meeting with the death row prisoner, according to an activist. “His mother, Avanti Jadhav, and his wife are expected to fly from Dubai to Islamabad for their first ever interaction later in the day. According to available[Read More…]
Superstar Salman Khan has once again maintained the top spot in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list for the second consecutive year. The “Badshah” of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan and India’s cricket captain Virat Kohli took the second and third spot respectively with actress Priyanka Chopra named as only female celebrity[Read More…]
United Nations: In a rebuff to the US, the UN General Assembly on Thursday, passed by a two-thirds majority, a resolution criticising President Donald Trump‘s decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move Washington’s embassy there. India joined the overwhelming Assembly majority to vote for the resolution that[Read More…]
A whopping 80 percent of millennial travellers prefer exploring international destinations over domestic locations, says a survey conducted by global search engine Skyscanner. The Millennial Travel Study touched the pulse of over 1,000 millennials from across the country, quizzing them on their preferred destinations, mode of travel, interests and much[Read More…]
Oxford Dictionaries has declared “Youthquake” as 2017’s Word of the Year, reflecting what it calls a “political awakening” among millennial voters, the media reports on Friday. It was first coined in the 1960s by Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, who used it to describe sudden changes in fashion, music and attitudes,[Read More…]
As the Congress on Thursday accused the Election Commission of becoming a “captive puppet” in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hands, the BJP hit back and said the opposition party was “known for breaking guidelines on constitutional bodies”. The Congress had dubbed the Election Commission a captive puppet and accused Modi[Read More…]
A Republican lawmaker has committed suicide after denying accusations of sexually molesting a teenage girl, police said. Dan Johnson, 56, shot himself on a bridge in Mount Washington, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, according to WDRB-TV in Louisville. The gun was recovered by the police, reports Xinhua news agency. Second phase[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President-designate Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appealed to the voters in Gujarat to exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling that has begun. “Today is Phase 2 of the Gujarat elections. I request all those voting today to vote in record numbers and[Read More…]
Several women who last year accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct before he was elected the US President have renewed their allegations publicly as they detailed their accounts of being groped, fondled and forcibly kissed by him. The accusers were among more than a dozen who had initially come forward[Read More…]
Pakistan on Monday rebuffed allegations of a secret meeting between Congress leaders and its High Commissioner in New Delhi, saying India should stop “dragging” Islamabad into its electoral debate and termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark as “baseless and irresponsible”. “India should stop dragging Pakistan into its electoral debate[Read More…]
As a collection of space data increases, NASA is exploring the infusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into space communications networks to meet demand and increase efficiency. Software-defined radios like cognitive radio use AI to employ underutilised portions of the electromagnetic spectrum without human intervention. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permits[Read More…]
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the face of international criticism while asserting that he was “not taking a position of any final status” of the ancient city that is also claimed by Palestine. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking[Read More…]
The US House of Representatives rejected a resolution tabled by Democrat Texas Congressman Al Green to impeach President Donald Trump, the media reported. The resolution was rejected in a 364-58 vote on Wednesday evening, reports The Hill magazine. Every Republican voted with a majority of Democrats to turn away the[Read More…]
