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New Delhi: British luxury brand, Burberry, is winning people’s hearts with its latest Autumn-Winter ’22 collection for children by celebrating diversity in fashion. In a first for the brand, Burberry has featured its first Sikh child model. Sahib Singh, is photographed dressed in a Burberry cardigan with a pair of sneakers and a matching black […]

New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the ‘Signing of Guarantees’ for the hosting of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. The seventh edition of the women’s under-17 football World Cup will be hosted in India from October 11 to 30. Thanking […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will inaugurate the iconic Integrated Command and Control Centre at Banjara Hills on August 4. In a memo issued here to various departments involved in the project, City Police Commissioner CV Anand asked for completion of the remaining works at the earliest and for arrangements to be put in […]

Hyderabad: A video of a group of Korean students dancing to the song ‘Ghagra’ from Ranbir Kapoor-Deepika Padukone’s film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani went viral on social media, leaving netizens incredibly impressed. The video, which was initially posted on Instagram, shows Korean students dressed in traditional outfits and kurtas. They were seen grooving to Ranbir […]

Vijayawada: A troop of caged monkeys have been rescued and set free by the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department. The monkeys were being kept in a cage on the premises of the office of the local Directorate of Medical Education (DME) office, apparently for weeks without food and water. Following a complaint from a concerned citizen, […]

Hyderabad: The South Central Railways (SCR) has announced 16 special trains from Hyderabad to Tirupati to clear extra rush. As per release, train no-07509 Hyderabad-Tirupati will depart at 4:35 pm on August 6, 13, and 20 to arrive at 5:30 am the next day. Similarly, train no-07510 Tirupati – Hyderabad will depart at 11:50 pm […]

New Delhi: Nine in 10 Indians use Twitter while watching TV or streaming content as they turn to the platform for trailers, highlights and latest news about TV shows, the micro-blogging platform revealed on Thursday. About 79 per cent people in India use Twitter more when they’re watching sports content elsewhere, and what they seek on […]

Geneva: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Europe and the Americas have been the hardest hit by the global monkeypox outbreak. Addressing reporters here, the WHO chief said these two regions have reported 95 per cent of the diagnosed cases, and warned against stigma and discrimination against people […]

Kathmandu: Nepal Police has continued its raids against illegal call centres owned by Chinese nationals. On Wednesday night, a raid was conducted at a call centre in Kathmandu’s Thamel area following which four Chinese nationals were arrested. The raid in Thamel, a popular tourist area, was the fourth to be carried out within a week. […]

San Francisco: A Tesla vehicle has allegedly killed another motorcyclist, this time in the Utah state in the US when a driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added the fatal accident to its list. Forty-eight crashes are under investigation, 39 of which involve […]

Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 14 paise to 79.77 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday tracking the overnight weakness of the American currency. However, higher oil prices, month-end importer demand and global recession fears could restrict the gains for the local unit, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened […]

New Delhi: Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday said that there is no question of apologising as he had mistakenly referred to President Droupadi Murmu as ‘Rashtrapatni’. He further said that the BJP is deliberately trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. “There is no question of apologising. I had mistakenly said […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed noisy scenes after BJP members strongly protested against Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remark on President Droupadi Murmu, leading to adjournment of the proceedings till 12 noon. As soon as the House met at 11 am, Union Minister Smriti Irani accused Chowdhury of disrespecting Murmu. Irani claimed […]

New Delhi: India on Thursday reported 20,557 new Covid-19 cases, a slight increase against the 18,313 infections registered the previous day, the Union Health Ministry said. In the same period, there were 44 additional deaths which took the nationwide Covid death toll to 5,26,211. The active caseload rose to 1,46,323, accounting for 0.33 per cent of […]

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate has recovered Rs 27.90 crore and six kg gold from another house of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested West Bengal Commerce & Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee. A truck of RBI left Arpita’s residence ferrying recovered cash and gold in ten steel trunks on Thursday morning. Soon after the ED sleuths […]

New Delhi: Microsoft has caught an Austrian company selling spyware based on multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits to attack its customers. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) found that the spyware developer — officially named DSIRF and codenamed KNOTWEED — developed a spyware called ‘Subzero’ that was used […]

Luanda: A rare 170-carat pink diamond, weighing 34 grams, thought to be the largest in the last 300 years, has been discovered in Angola. The pink stone has been named the “Lulo Rose”, after the mine in Angola where it was found. It will be sold later this year through an international tender to be conducted […]

Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed and 23 others injured in separate bombings in two towns of southern Somalia, officials said. In the first incident, 13 people lost their lives while five others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Marka town, of the Lower Shabelle region, reports Xinhua news agency. Governor […]

New Delhi: Apple iOS 16 will let users edit an iMessage for five times and once they reach the limit, the edit option will disappear from the long-press menu. In previous releases of iOS 16, the company allowed 15 minutes to unsend a message. With the latest update, the time frame has been significantly reduced to […]

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Thursday, with the marquee event being hosted by India for the first time. Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, Chief Minister M K Stalin and Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur among others will be present during the opening […]

Bengaluru: Amid massive protests against the killing of BJP Yuva Morcha member Praveen Kumar Nettary in Dakshina Kannada district, the Karnataka government has called off its first anniversary celebrations at Vidhana Soudha and Janotsava in Doddaballapur. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai made the announcement in a hurriedly convened press conference at his R T Nagar residence in […]

Beijing: Nearly a million people in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province where the Covid-19 pandemic was first recorded, have been placed under a lockdown after four asymptomatic cases were detected, the media reported on Thursday. According to a BBC report, the lockdown has been imposed in the city’s Jiangxia district and the residents have […]

New Delhi: Google has announced to delay its ambitious plan to block third-party tracking cookies in Chrome browser to the second half of 2024. Google originally announced its plan to phase out support for third-party tracking cookies in Chrome — called Privacy Sandbox API testing initiative — within two years in early 2020. “By Q3 2023, […]

Port of Spain: Openers Shubman Gill and Shikhar Dhawan hit half centuries as India completed a series sweep over West Indies with an emphatic 119-run victory in a rain-affected clash in Port of Spain. There were plenty of delays during India’s innings, with the visitors forced to hit out late after a weather break saw […]