Monday, 30 May 2016

What is stopping Aishwarya Rai Bachchan from wearing 'a white shirt and jeans' at Cannes?

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It has been 15 years at Cannes for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. And almost every outing, and outfit, has made news — good, bad and ugly. This ye...

Saudi Arabia denounces Iran over decision to not send Hajj pilgrims this year

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Saudi Arabia has denounced Iran over its decision not to send its pilgrims to the annual Hajj and has also criticised Tehran's demand r...

Boat ran out of fuel, water came from everywhere: migrants recount horror

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Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the pa...

Tanmay Bhat, Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar: Here's everything you don't need to know

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Tanmay Bhat's parodies of Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar has, to use a technical millennial term, broke the internet. If like the...

26/11: Pak court issues notices to accused, government over plea to examine boat

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 A top Pakistani court on Monday issued notices to the seven Mumbai attack case accused, including 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, ...

Iran says to miss hajj, Saudi 'blocking path to Allah'

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Tehran: Iran said today its pilgrims will miss the pilgrimage this year because Saudi Arabia, custodian of Islam's holiest sites, was r...
Friday, 27 May 2016

Have sought report on Rafale negotiations: Manohar Parrikar

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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report from the committee negotiating the price for the Rafale fighter jets as India looks...

300 people evacuated from Korean Air plane at Tokyo airport

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About 300 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after one of the engines caught...

Barack Obama pays tribute at Hiroshima nuclear memorial

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Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to bring global att...
Thursday, 26 May 2016

Rs. 1,000 Crore Spent On Modi Government's 2-Year Ads': Arvind Kejriwal

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full-page newspaper ads marked the two-year anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government today, a sharp tweet came from Del...

In 1998, He Helped Save Her After A Devastating Fire. In 2016, He Watched Her Graduate College.

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Peter Getz held Josibelk Aponte in 1998, after a fire ripped through a Connecticut apartment. Getz, a patrolman at the time, performed CPR ...

Stockholders Okay Twitter CEO's Plan to Donate Shares to Employees

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Celebrating Twitter's 10th birthday at its annual meeting on Wednesday, stockholders of the micro-blogging site have approved CEO Jack ...

Spread of Locky Virus in Mantralaya PCs Contained, Data Safe: Official

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The state's Information Technology department has managed to contain the spread of Locky virus, a file-encrypting ransomware, in comput...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

EgyptAir plane 'did not swerve' before crash

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The head of Egypt's state-run provider of air navigation services says that EgyptAir flight 804 did not swerve or lose altitude before ...

Facebook drops news outlet input in ‘trending topics’ review

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Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a “trending topic” on the giant social netw...
Monday, 23 May 2016

NSA surveillance: Obama warns Congress against 'reckless' decision

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As Rand Paul threatened to “force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program”, Barack Obama on Saturday made a last-ditch plea to Congre...

How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers

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By now, almost everyone knows what Edward Snowden did. He leaked top-secret documents revealing that the National Security Agency was spyin...

Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source

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Edward Snowden has called for a complete overhaul of US whistleblower protections after a new source from deep inside the Pentagon came for...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

A lifelong focus: Photographer Santiago Lyon's forced resilience

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What makes a person choose a profession in which they know that scores of their colleagues, some of them friends, will be killed each year,...

Egyptair Jet From Paris to Cairo Crashed, French President Says

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An Egyptair flight with 66 people on board crashed while en route from Paris to Cairo on Thursday, the French president confirmed. Flight M...

French Officials Fear Missing EgyptAir Flight Crashed

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An EgyptAir flight en route to Cairo from Paris disappeared from radar today, as French officials fear the plane crashed over the Mediterra...

EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed - Hollande

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An EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, French President Francois Hollande confirmed. The Airbus A320 with...

EgyptAir flight MS804 to Cairo disappears from radar

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EgyptAir flight 804 travelling from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board, the airline ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Trump, Clinton campaign will be nasty—and that's good news

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As the presidential election looks to be featuring two of the most polarizing candidates in modern American politics, we can expect a hard ...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs 'more accessible' Garden Bridge plans

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The newly-elected London mayor said the planned £175m footbridge linking Temple with the Southbank "must be a genuinely public and ope...