Idea for Zuckerberg: Shut Facebook for a day
If the customer is always right, then Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg needs to consider shutting down the social media giant for one day a year. The suggestion is one of the more subversive among the...
View ArticleAssembly polls in Delhi likely to be held by mid-Feb
NEW DELHI:The assembly elections in Delhi, where the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are raring for another face off, are likely to be held by the middle of February. Authoritative sources in the...
View ArticlePalace steps up defence of Prince Andrew in sex scandal
LONDON: Stepping up its defense of Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace today again “emphatically denied” that the Duke of York had sexual contact with an American woman who was allegedly kept as an...
View ArticleAncient India had planes: Science Congress told
Mumbai: Aeroplanes existed in India 7,000 years ago and they travelled from one country to another and from one planet to another, the Indian Science Congress was told today in a controversial lecture...
View ArticleAmerica’s oldest time capsule buried in 1795 opened
Boston: Boston residents in the newly-formed United States valued a robust press as much as their history and currency if the contents of a time capsule dating back to a decade after the Revolutionary...
View ArticleHubble captures images of Eagle Nebula’s ‘Pillars of Creation’
Washington: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation and has captured high-definition images. The telescope had earlier captured the three...
View ArticleMahinda Rajapaksa concedes defeat in Sri Lankan presidential poll
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday morning conceded defeat in presidential elections held on Thursday, even as trends showed a clear victory for united opposition candidate...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Pakistan must fight militant groups that threaten Indian, US...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan must fight militant groups that threaten Afghan, Indian and US interests, US secretary of state John Kerry said on Tuesday as he voiced sympathy for the victims of the December 16...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo puts Prophet Muhammad on first cover after attack
PARIS: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo defied the attackers in last week’s bloodbath by putting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed on its next cover, as the government on Monday announced the...
View ArticleScripting should be given ample time: filmmaker Jaya
Three years after her successful Telugu directorial debut “Lovely”, director B. Jaya, who is ready with her next project, says one should not compromise on time when it comes to scripting as it’s a...
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