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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad City Police generated revenue of Rs 64, 63,200 lakh through the auctioning of seized and abandoned vehicles. The auction was held at Goshamahal police grounds on Tuesday under the supervision of the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad city. A total of 1150 seized and abandoned vehicles were auctioned on Tuesday. Of the 1150 […]
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New Delhi: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new stunning images of Jupiter that will give scientists even more clues to the planet’s inner life. With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. In the standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several […]
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Lucknow: Railway Protection Force (RPF) registered a case against Salman Khan’s doppelganger, Azam Ansari in Lucknow for making an Instagram reel on the railway tracks. A content creator and a fan of Superstar Star Salman, Azam Ansari shot a video for his Instagram on the railway tracks in Lucknow. In the video, Azam could be […]
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London: Smartphone brand Nothing stated that the Android 13 update for its recently launched phone (1) will only be rolled out in the first half of 2023. According to Android Authority, users who anticipated receiving Android 13 quickly for the Nothing Phone (1) may be disappointed to hear that they may have to wait until the […]
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The Russian offensive has largely bogged down as Ukrainian forces increasingly target key facilities far behind the front lines, including in Russia-occupied Crimea.
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New York: Rather than evolving from regular transmission among millions of humans, the coronavirus variants of concern from chronic, long Covid patients can be more deadly and need urgent attention, scientists have warned. Earlier studies have shown that some immune-compromised people, such as those taking medication for other chronic disorders, have carried active Covid infections […]
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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data without […]
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San Francisco: An unopened first-generation 2007 iPhone in a sealed box has been sold for $35,000 (nearly Rs 28 lakh) in an auction in the US. On January 9, 2007, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone — a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features — at […]
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Islamabad: A minor girl was kidnapped, raped, and burnt to death in Islamabad’s Kohsar town. Her body was recovered from a water tank from one of the houses in the town, at Old Kirpa Road falling under the jurisdiction of Kirpa Police Station, The News reported. The father of the victim, hailing from Mardan, lodged […]
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has said that a girl, who has attained puberty, can marry without the consent of her parents under Muslim laws while hearing a plea seeking protection to a couple who got married against the consent of girl’s parents. Justice Jasmeet Singh observed, “A girl on attaining puberty could marry […]
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New Delhi: Work on Kamal Haasan’s ‘Indian 2’ has resumed today. The film’s shoot came to standstill in 2020 after a crane collapsed on the set during the shooting of the film near Chennai, leaving 3 dead and 10 injured. Sharing the update, filmmaker Shankar Shanmugam tweeted, “Good morning Indians, we are glad to announce […]
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Mumbai: It’s a clash of the titans as Bollywood stars Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik Roshan pack a powerful punch in the “Vikram Vedha” teaser, which was released by the makers on Wednesday. A modern retelling of the classic folktale ‘Baital Pachisi’, the upcoming movie is the Hindi adaptation of the Tamil neo-noir action thriller […]
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New Delhi: Shares of NDTV jumped 5 per cent to hit their highest trading permissible limit for the day on Wednesday after Adani group launched a bid to take over the media company. The stock climbed 5 per cent to Rs 384.50 — its upper circuit limit as well as 52-week high — on the […]
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Toronto: Parents who shout at their kids for their screen addiction have to first control their digital media consumption for relaxation as such people are more likely to engage in lower-quality parenting, a new study has revealed. The researchers from University of Waterloo found that parents with higher levels of distress engage in more screen-based activities […]
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New York: A 29-year-old Indian-American female hiker, who got swept away in a flash flood last week at the Zion National Park in the US state of Utah, has been found dead, according to a senior official from the park. Jetal Agnihotri of Tucson, Arizona, went missing on August 19 when flash floods swept multiple […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmarks gave up early gains on Wednesday and were later trading lower in tandem with weak global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex, which climbed 82.36 points to 59,113.66 in early trade, later fell in the negative territory. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty had advanced 27.9 points to 17,605.40 in initial trade but failed […]
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Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 4 paise to 79.87 against the US dollar in opening trade on Wednesday, tracking the strength of the American currency in the overseas market. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 79.84 against the dollar, then fell to 79.87, registering a decline of 4 paise over the last close. […]
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New Delhi: India logged 10,649 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,43,68,195, while the active cases declined to 96,442, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,27,452 with 36 fatalities which includes four deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at […]
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Medak: In a sensational incident, some unidentified burglars killed a couple at their residence at Paithara village of Kulcharam Mandal at midnight. The victims were Lakshmaiah (55) and Lakshmamma (51). The couple were attacked with sharp weapons when they were in deep sleep. As the news of the double murder spread all over the Mandal, […]
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California: Humans help one another; it is one of the pillars of civilised society. However, a new study conducted by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals that a lack of sleep impairs this fundamental human trait, with real-world consequences. Sleep deprivation has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, […]
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New Delhi: The Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Tuesday pulled out of the US Open 2022 due to a tendon injury in her forearm and hinted about some change in her retirement plans. The 35-year-old picked up the injury while competing at the Canadian Open earlier this month. She played at last week’s Cincinnati Open […]
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Washington: James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning 2009 epic adventure ‘Avatar,’ which was released in theatres 13 years ago, is all set to return to theatres on September 23rd this year. The film will be re-released in theatres in India three months prior to the release of its sequel – ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’. The second […]
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San Francisco: After a Twitter whistleblower claimed that the microblogging platform lied to Elon Musk about bots, the tech billionaire has now reacted to it and shared some cryptic tweets. On the microblogging site, Musk said that “in case anyone feels like buying a fine whistle…” along with a picture of a whistle. So spam prevalence […]
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New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday termed the Adani group’s buying of 29.18 per cent stake in media group NDTV a “hostile takeover”. Taking to Twitter, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said: “The news of a deeply over-leveraged company owned by the PM’s ‘khaas dost’ making a hostile takeover bid of a well-known TV news […]
