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Mumbai: Stars Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Akshay Kumar, who will be seen on the upcoming episode of ‘Koffee With Karan’, grooved to the popular track ‘Oo Antava’ from the film ‘Pushpa: The Rise’. The Cool 😎 and the Killer 🔥 raising temperatures in the house! #HotstarSpecials #KoffeeWithKaranS7 episode 3 starts streaming on 21st July. @karanjohar […]

Hyderabad: The Police in southeastern China caught a burglar by using DNA testing technology. The DNA test was done on two blood stains of mosquitoes, which were killed by the burglar. According to the South China Morning Post, On June 11, in Fuzhou, Fujian province, southeastern China, a thief broke into a residential compound late […]

London: The record-breaking heat in the UK has led to cooling-related outages at the Google Cloud and Oracle servers, leaving the customers flummoxed as they never experience such outages. Google Cloud said in an update that there was a cooling-related failure in one of its buildings in the UK-based data centres, which has now been […]

London: Patients who contract Covid-19 face a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, particularly in the three months following infection, according to a new study. Scientists are increasingly recognising Covid-19 as a multi-system condition that can cause disease throughout the body, likely by triggering pathways that cause inflammation. Researchers from the King’s College […]

New Delhi: ‘Stranger Things’ season four has generated a record 1.3 billion hours viewed to date, making it the biggest season of English TV ever, Netflix has announced. The streaming giant said that its slate in the second quarter (Q2) is “headlined by season four of Stranger Things, which returned to tremendous fan reception and […]

Bengaluru: As many as 13 Muslim educational institutions have sought Karnataka government’s permission to set up Pre-University Colleges in Dakshina Kannada which would enable Muslim girl students to wear hijab inside classrooms. According to sources in the Education Department, all the applications have sought consent to open PU colleges (first and second PUC) in the […]

Colombo: Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected as Sri Lanka’s new President by Parliament, following a high-voltage political drama which saw his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country and resigning after a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the economy. The 73-year-old six-time prime minister secured 134 votes in the 225-member House […]

Hyderabad: Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar on Wednesday said that, the entire landscape around the Outer Ring Road (ORR) has massively developed this monsoon making it beautiful and green. Taking to Twitter, he said the lush greenery around the ORR was possible due to the efforts taken up by the Urban Forestry wing […]

Mumbai: Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor Khan has shared a hilarious response to rumours circulating about her third pregnancy. Kareena, who was holidaying in London with her family, took to Instagram to respond to the reports claiming that she is going to be a mother for the third time. It all started when a picture of […]

Hyderabad: Following a viral post that claimed the government will provide liquor through taps at home; tipplers in the country seemed to be over the moon. But that excitement was short-lived as the Press Information Bureau (PIB) dispelled the claim and said ‘not to get your hopes high’. A picture that was made to look […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday scrapped a week-old tax on the export of petrol and cut windfall taxes on overseas shipment of diesel and ATF as well as the one imposed on domestically produced crude oil after global oil prices fell. While the Rs 6 a litre export duty on petrol was scrapped, the […]

Hyderabad: The Saroornagar police booked a case against Nizamabad MP Arvind Dharmapuri on charges of abusing Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and delivering a provocative speech. A city-based advocate Ravi Kumar approached the Saroornagar police stating that the MP had abused the Chief Minister and other persons during a press meet held on July 13 […]

Rajanna Sircilla: Irrigation officials of Mid Manair reservoir in Boinpalli mandal lifted six flood-gates to release 21,429 cusecs of water into Lower Manair Dam on Tuesday night. Officials have lifted gates as the project is getting inflows from its sources following incessant heavy rainfall for one week. While the reservoir is getting 15,000 cusecs of […]

Chennai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought Tamil Nadu government’s approval to prosecute two former ministers, as many retired Directors General of Police, and eight others in the multi-crore Gutkha scam that had rocked the state during the AIADMK regime. According to sources in Tamil Nadu home department, the CBI’s anti-corruption unit has […]

New Delhi: Noted former athlete P.T. Usha on Wednesday took oath as a Rajya Sabha Member. She was nominated to the Upper House by the government on July 6 along with music composer Ilaiyaraaja, philanthropist Veerendra Heggade and film director K.V. Vijayendra Prasad. She took oath in Hindi. Usha, a celebrated athlete born in a […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Transportation system between three mandals such as Koutala, Chintalamanepalli and Bejjur, and Kaghaznagar town has come to a grinding halt with backwaters of Penganga river submerging culverts and a road at Parigaon village in Sirpur (T) mandal on Wednesday. Following discharge of surplus water from irrigation projects in Maharashtra, Penganga river was […]

San Francisco: Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the lawsuit over flawed “butterfly” keyboards in MacBooks in the US. A group of MacBook users in 2018 had filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple for the controversial butterfly keyboards, alleging that the new design failed when even tiny particles of dust accumulated around the […]

New Delhi: India added 20,557 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,38,03,619, while the active cases increased to 1,45,654, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,25,825 with 40 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is introducing Viva Engage, a new app in Teams that helps build community and connection, along with providing tools for personal expression. Built on the foundation of Yammer, Viva Engage brings people together across the organisation to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share […]

Washington: The animated Hollywood flick, ‘Lightyear’ starring Chris Evans, Taika Waititi, Keke Palmer, Uzo Aduba will be streaming soon on Disney+ from August 3. It debuted in theaters on June 17. On Tuesday, the movie’s official Twitter handle Pixar’s Lightyear shared a post and announced the details. The tweet reads, “Get ready to blast off […]

Hyderabad: A nine-year-old girl allegedly fell to her death from a building at Chandrapuri colony in LB Nagar on Tuesday night. According to the police, the girl, a resident of Mathuranagar in LB Nagar, left her house saying she was going to a nearby provisions store. A little later, the child reached Chandrapuri colony and […]

New Delhi: Global smartphone brand OPPO on Wednesday launched its latest Reno Series — Reno8 Pro 5G at Rs 45,999 and Reno8 5G at Rs 29,999 — in India that offer end-to-end imaging solution and a streamlined unibody design. The OPPO Reno8 Pro 5G is backed by the company’s proprietary imaging NPU, the ‘MariSilicon X’. The […]

Hyderabad: With the flood waters receding in the Godavari River, people in Bhadrachalam town and other flood-hit areas in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district heaved a sigh of relief. The water level in the river at Bhadrachalam stood at 47.70 feet at 9 a.m. on Wednesday but the authorities have not withdrawn the third flood level […]

Hyderabad: A 30-year-old woman died by suicide after allegedly jumping into the Hussain Sagar on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the woman identified as Sailaja, came near to the NTR Garden side of Hussain Sagar and jumped into the lake. Locals who noticed it informed the police on Dial 100. A police team rushed […]