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New York: Women’s elevated anxiety, depression and stress during pregnancy altered key features of the foetal brain, which subsequently decreased their offspring’s cognitive development at 18 months, according to a study. These changes also increased internalising and dysregulation behaviours, revealed the study published in JAMA Network Open. The findings further suggest that persistent psychological distress after […]
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New Delhi: When was the last time you laughed hard? Not just a little guffaw, but the kind of guffaw that makes your stomach hurt or even tears well up in your eyes? Laughter not only makes you feel good, but it has been shown to improve your mental health, immune system, and even vascular […]
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New Delhi: Energy security will be among key areas of discussions during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Germany, Denmark and France, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said on Sunday. Modi begins his visit to the three countries on Monday. At a media briefing, Kwatra said the overall focus of the talks will be […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana government is implementing a slew of welfare and development programmes for working classes, said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. He greeted the working-class community on the occasion of International Labour Day (May Day) on Sunday. He said that the state government is implementing several development and welfare programmes for the welfare of […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk could fire Twitter’s legal head Vijaya Gadde, who makes about $17 million a year and is one of the highly paid executives at the micro-blogging platform, once he takes over. Nevertheless, Gadde will get a severance package worth $12.5 million that includes Twitter shares, reports The New York Post. “Gadde, […]
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Mumbai: On her 34th birthday on Sunday, actress-producer Anushka Sharma spoke about how she is focussing on being a part of the best scripts that the Hindi film industry has to offer which will make it worth her time to stay away from her year-old toddler Vamika. Anushka says, “I will always want to be […]
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Mumbai: Bollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh, who has been garnering positive response for her work in the recently released Ajay Devgn directorial ‘Runway 34’, has spoken about the challenges that she encountered during the filming of the project where she had to act and emote in front of a towering personality like Amitabh Bachchan. Elaborating […]
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New Delhi: Newly-appointed Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Sunday said his “utmost and foremost” priority would be to ensure very high standards of operational preparedness to face current, contemporary and future security challenges across the entire spectrum of conflict. Gen Pande also said the global geopolitical situation is changing rapidly “as a result of […]
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New Delhi: Tata Motors is looking to drive in a range of electric vehicles across various price points with multiple body styles and features in order to cater to a wide range of customers across segments, as per a top company official. The homegrown auto major, which currently leads the domestic electric passenger vehicle segment […]
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Chennai: Several directors, actors, actresses and production houses joined scores of fans on Sunday to greet actor Ajith Kumar on his 51st birthday. Among the first to wish Ajith were producer Boney Kapoor, directors Venkat Prabhu, Ajay Gnanamuthu, and Adhik Ravichandran, as well as actors Shanthanoo Baghyaraj, Parvati Nair, Harish Kalyan and Sibi Sathyaraj. Venkat […]
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Lucknow: Continuing its drive against loudspeakers, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has uninstalled 53,942 loudspeakers from various religious places across the state till Sunday. Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) in Uttar Pradesh, Prashant Kumar said: “So far, till 7 a.m. on Sunday, 53,942 loudspeakers have been removed from various religious […]
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Bengaluru: The Kannada film industry has never been short of high ambition, aspirational directors and producers who wanted to put the industry on the national map. Though yeomen efforts were made in this direction since the 1990s, it could garner commercial success and acceptance only in 2022 with ‘KGF Chapter: 2’. Veterans say that it […]
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Chennai: The first look of director Deepak’s upcoming film, ‘Witness’, featuring actresses Shraddha Srinath and Rohini in the lead, was released on Sunday on the occasion of May Day. Shraddha, who posted the first look of the film on her social media handles, wrote: “With the world of conservancy workers at its centre, the movie […]
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New Delhi: As the Indian users look for trusted, reliable and long-performing handsets in mid-price range, Samsung has unveiled a range of such smartphones this year, including the all-new Galaxy M53 5G. The smartphone, which is said to offer flagship-inspired features, is priced at Rs 23,999 for the 6GB+128GB and Rs 25,999 for the 8GB+128GB […]
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Howrah: Hundreds of devotees gathered at the Belur Math on Sunday morning as Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda, celebrated its 125th anniversary. Ramakrishna Mission president Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj said the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahansa helped the organisation in moving forward on its path of service to humanity. He also spoke about the […]
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Mancherial: In a heart-wrenching incident, a daily wage earner of Uttar Pradesh was reportedly forced to abandon his brother’s body in a mortuary of Mancherial as he was unable to pay Rs 80,000 demanded by a private ambulance service operator to shift the body to his native place on Sunday. Mothi Sha of Uttar Pradesh […]
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Mumbai: In a mega jolt on the eve of Ramzan Eid, Bollywood megastar Salman Khan has been slapped with a legal notice — demanding a staggering Rs 295 crore as ‘costs in cause — by his neighbour Ketan R. Kakkad, a retired NRI from the USA. According to sources, the notice has been sent by Kakkad […]
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Chennai: At a time when south Indian films are gaining more attention than ever before, a new term — ‘pan-Indian’ — is being used to refer to films in regional languages that are emerging as superhits as a result of being watched by masses from across the country. While many think that describing a film […]
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Hyderabad: One person was killed and another injured in a road accident at Dundigal on city outskirts on Sunday. According to police, two persons Lokesh ,21, and Kranti Kumar ,22, both residents of Sangareddy were going on a motorcycle when a tanker hit them on the Gagilapur road. Both of them fell on the road. […]
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San Francisco: After the encrypted messaging app Telegram previously gave up on its own token, it now supports crypto payments. According to Protocol, the addition could make crypto payments on messaging platforms more mainstream. The TON Foundation, which manages the toncoin token, has enabled fee-free payments, sending crypto to other users, using toncoin (TON) in the […]
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Madrid: Real Madrid sealed their 35th La Liga title thanks to a 4-0 win over Espanyol. Two first-half goals from Rodrygo and further strikes from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema saw Carlo Ancelotti’s men to an easy win against a rival that looked like an uninvited guest at the celebrations on Saturday night. Ancelotti rested nine […]
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Jagtial: Relatives and family members of a youth Madhukar (35), who died while undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Jagtial town on Saturday night, ransacked the hospital and damaged furniture alleging that Madhukar died due to negligence of hospital management. A native of Shekalla of Buggaram mandal, Madhukar l made suicide attempt by consuming […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO and soon-to-be Twitter boss Elon Musk has reiterated that he has no political side, after openly criticising Twitter’s legal head Vijaya Gadde and promoting former US President Donald Trump on the platform. The world’s richest man last week supported Trump’s social network app ‘Truth Social’ by sharing its App Store ranking on […]
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New Delhi: The price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder has been increased by Rs 102.50 on Sunday, which now costs Rs 2,355.50 against the earlier price of Rs 2,253. The 5-kg LPG cylinder is now priced at Rs 655. Earlier on April 1, the price of 19-kg commercial LPG was hiked by Rs 250 […]
