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San Francisco: Apple Podcasts is introducing two new charts — Top Subscriber Shows and Top Subscriber Channels –Ato showcase popular paid shows. The new charts are available in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia on iPhone, iPad, and Mac for listeners on iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6, and macOS 12.5 or later. “Listeners can find Top […]
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Lucknow: After failing to make its presence felt in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections earlier this year, the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is now preparing to contest municipal polls across the state. AIMIM’s state president Shaukat Ali Khan said” “We were called for a meeting at Asaduddin Owaisi’s residence in Hyderabad. Whatever the instructions given […]
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Zurich: The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has announced that it sold 2.45 million tickets for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to fans around the world, with less than 100 days left until the beginning of the mega sporting event. The first FIFA World Cup to be held in the Middle East and […]
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New Delhi: Elon Musk on Friday said that Parag Agrawal-led Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his lead team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for the micro-blogging platform. His legal team subpoenaed two ad tech firms — Integral Ad Science (IAS) and […]
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Hyderabad: Indian leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has asked his fans to not believe rumours about his relationship status with wife Dhanashree Verma after social media was flooded with posts about the couple’s alleged divorce. Taking to Instagram, Chahal wrote, “A humble request to you all to not believe in any sort of rumours pertaining to […]
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Hyderabad: Over 22.50 lakh students watched the ‘Gandhi’ movie, which is being screened for free in theatres across Telangana as part of the Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsavam. Director Sekhar Kammula attended one such screening and describes the experience as exhilarating. @TelanganaCMO @YadavTalasani @KTRTRS @GHMCOnline @nfdcindia pic.twitter.com/kXiTyOfLUO — Sekhar Kammula (@sekharkammula) August 18, 2022 The Happy Days […]
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Hyderabad: The consumer court has penalised Ola Cabs for charging a customer an exorbitant amount and not providing air conditioning. Following a petition filed by Jabez Samuel stating that he and his wife were left stranded for four hours after the cab driver asked them to get down after covering 5 kilometers in October last […]
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Hyderabad: Hitting back at “silly trolls”, who’ve been alleging inaction in a recent Jubilee Hills rape case in Hyderabad, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao said rapists were arrested swiftly and sent to jail. “To the silly trolls who indulge in whataboutery & question what Telangana Govt did in recent rape case […]
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Visakhapatnam: Demolition of alleged unauthorised constructions in Palasa town in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district has triggered tension. The revenue and municipal department officials reached the Srinivasa Nagar area late on Thursday night with bulldozers to demolish illegal structures. The officials said houses were built illegally in the lake bed. The local residents staged a strong protest. […]
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New Delhi: At least half of the companies worldwide are planning to lay off people, most are reducing bonuses and rescinding job offers amid the economic downturn, a new report has warned. According to the latest PwC ‘Pulse: Managing business risks in 2022’ survey in the US, 50 per cent of respondents are reducing their […]
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New Delhi: Threatened by the meteoric rise of Chinese short-form video platform TikTok, Meta-owned Instagram and Google-owned YouTube have introduced new features to discourage their short-video app users from cross-platform sharing. According to reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared. “It […]
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New York: Metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, can help lower the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalisations, or death due to Covid-19 by over 50 per cent if prescribed early in onset of symptoms, finds a study. “Our trial suggests that metformin may reduce the likelihood of needing to go to the emergency room […]
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New York: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of a temple in New York has been toppled and smashed in the second attack on the memorial this month and a local volunteer watch group has sprung into action to protect it. The incident in the early hours of Tuesday was the latest in a series […]
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Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has condemned the attack on Salman Rushdie, describing it as “terrible” and “sad”, and saying that while the anger of the Islamic world at the author’s book “The Satanic Verses” was understandable, it could not justify the assault. In an interview to the Guardian, Khan also said he […]
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New Delhi: Women on average have more sex partners than men in 11 states and UTs but the percentage of men who had sexual intercourse with someone who was neither their spouse or lived with stood at 4 per cent, much higher than that of women at 0.5 per cent, according to the NFHS data. […]
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Belagavi: A search operation is underway on Friday for two AK-47 rifles which were reportedly stolen from an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in Karnataka’s Belagavi district. According to the police, the stolen rifles belonged to Rajesh Kumar and Sandeep Meena attached to the 45th Battalion. On Wednesday night, Kumar and Meena had deposited the […]
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San Francisco: Just four months after unveiling its much-anticipated pocket-sized drone camera Pixy, Snap is scrapping the development of its flying drone technology, media reports say. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told employees at a Q&A session about the choice to no longer develop the Pixy line, citing the Wall Street Journal, The Verge reported. A source […]
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Hyderabad: For the first time, researchers from Osmania University (OU) have documented as many as 98 species of herpetofauna-frogs, toads, lizards and snakes, asserting the fact that Telangana is home to a rich diversity of amphibians and reptiles. The 98 species include 16 species of frogs and toads belonging to four families, one species of […]
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New Delhi: Makers of Diljit Dosanjh and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub’s next emotional entertainer film ‘Jogi’ has unveiled the first poster and release date of the film. ‘Jogi’ is all set to stream on the OTT platform Netflix from September 16, 2022. Helmed by the ‘Sultan’ director Ali Abbas Zafar, the film also stars Kumud Mishra, […]
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New Delhi: India’s gold imports, which have a bearing on the country’s Current Account Deficit (CAD), rose 6.4 per cent to USD 12.9 billion during April-July this fiscal due to healthy demand, according to government data. The imports stood at USD 12 billion during the same period a year ago. In July 2022, however, imports […]
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New Delhi: Google is rolling out new updates to cut low-quality and unoriginal content in Search results, making it easier for people to find helpful content. A search ranking update called the “Helpful Content Update” will start rolling out globally to English language users on August 22. “We know people don’t find content helpful if it […]
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Miami: Indian prodigy R Praggnanandhaa handed world No.6 Levon Aronian a 3-1 thrashing in the fourth round to notch up his fourth consecutive win in the FTX Crypto Cup, the American finale of Champions Chess Tour, on Friday. The 17-year old Indian is in joint lead with 12 match points along with world No.1 Magnus […]
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Patna: A jawan of SSB (Sashastra Seema Bal) 45 battalion, Chimala Vishnu allegedly shot himself dead at Veerpur, Supaul on Friday. The jawan hailed from Telangana. More Details awaited.
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New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 15,754 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,43,14,618, with the active cases increasing to 1,01,830, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,27,253 with 47 fatalities which includes eight deaths reconciled by Kerala, […]
