Mumbai, April 10: Prince William and wife Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on Sunday started their first visit to India by paying homage to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks here. Landing in the metropolis just before noon on their seven-day tour of India andRead More →
India’s move to get Pathankot terror attacks mastermind, Jaish-e-Mohamed chief Masood Azhar, banned by the UN was rebuffed for the second time by China, a close friend of Pakistan. New Delhi has voiced disappointment over the move. India had approached the UN in February to include Masood Azhar in theRead More →
Melbourne, April 9: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, named in what has been dubbed the Panama Papers – a massive leak of tax documents on offshore companies and accounts of the rich and the powerful – said that his name may have been “misused”. Responding to allegations that he had used his star powerRead More →
Brussels, April 7: One of the jihadists who blew themselves up in Islamic State attacks in Brussels on March 22 briefly worked as a cleaner at the European Parliament several years ago, the EU body said today. “He held a summer holiday job cleaning at the Parliament for one monthRead More →
A powerful blast ripped through a public park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday evening, killing at least 70 people and wounding over 250, including women and children, rescue workers and officials said. The blast, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, occurred in a parking lot atRead More →
United Nations, April 6: Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s warning that the world body is at risk of becoming “irrelevant” because of its failure to deal with terrorism, a spokesperson for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon mounted a defence asserting that the world body was taking a “responsible attitude” toRead More →
Australian travellers are divided on how much a robot could add to the holiday experience, according to a global study by travel deals company Travelzoo. The study reveals that two thirds of Australians are open to the idea of a robot working in roles such as a receptionist in aRead More →
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow gets stung by bees as part of her beauty regime. Paltrow shared that she underwent a series of treatments to make her look young and feel healthy, including getting stung by bees, reports aceshowbiz.com. “I’ve been stung by bees. It’s a thousands of years old treatment calledRead More →
New Delhi, March 29: Echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to bridge the “digital divide” in the country, a young Indian-American student has begun on her journey to empower rural youth in learning computer programming technology in a small yet picturesque town in Himachal Pradesh. Through “Pi A La Code”Read More →
Washington, March 30: Google, the technology giant born out of the internet age, rolled out a landline telephone service on Tuesday in some US cities. The service, known as Fiber Phone, offers basic landline features including call waiting, caller identification, unlimited local and nationwide calling and 911 services at aRead More →