By Nivedita Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Designer Ashish Soni, who will celebrate his silver jubilee in the fashion industry next year, has noticed an increased influx of foreign brands in the country. While he feels…
New York, Aug 26 (IANS) Surprised to see your grandparents making friends on Facebook, chatting online or using instant messaging services on smartphones? If yes, take heart, as indulging in social media could reduce loneliness…
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) Barack Obama has become the first US President to be featured in a virtual reality (VR) video where he can be seen traverseing through the Yosemite National Park situated in California’s…
Photo by tevintev1993 Los Angeles, Aug 26 (IANS) Actress Demi Moore will join Scarlett Johansson in “Rock That Body”, an upcoming comedy about a bachelorette weekend. Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Zoe Kravitz…
Los Angeles, Aug 26 (IANS) Character actor Marvin Kaplan, who was known for the sitcom “Alice” and his voice-over work as Choo-Choo on the animated series “Top Cat”, is dead. He was 89. Kaplan died…
New York, Aug 26 (IANS) When it comes to reliability and performance, Apple iPhones and iPads are failing more often than Android smartphones, a study has revealed. According to global data security firm Blancco Technology…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) In the wake of India’s Olympic fiasco, all the sports federations must be overhauled and delinked from political patronage, the CPI-M has said. “They should become democratic bodies in which…
Berlin, Aug 26 (IANS) FC Schalke 04 has announced the signing of Algerian midfielder Nabil Bentaleb from Tottenham on loan and French midfielder Benjamin Stambouli from Paris Saint-Germain on a four-year contract. The club got…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday here. Shanmugaratnam briefed Modi on the status of various bilateral cooperation initiatives, especially in the areas…
London, Aug 26 (IANS) Living a sedentary lifestyle could increase your risk of developing psychosis leading to early death, a study has warned. Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of avoidable death and is…
Chennai, Aug 26 (IANS) Actress Pooja Jhaveri says that her role in upcoming Telugu romantic-drama “Dwaraka”, which stars Vijay Deverakonda in the lead, gave her lot of scope to perform. “My role is such that…
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) NASA has said that its Juno spacecraft, launched five years ago, will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter this Saturday than at any other time during its prime mission….
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 26 (IANS) Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer lit the Paralympic torch as the final countdown to the Paralympic Games here. At a ceremony in the capital Brasilia on Thursday, Temer was…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) American data storage company NetApp has been named a leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (SSA) report, the company said on Griday. A solid state array…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday restrained Tamil Nadu police from arresting expelled AIADMK’s Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa on an alleged sexual harassment complaint. While restraining the state police from…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said transformation in governance is needed for India to progress in an inter-connected world and meet the aspirations of its youth. “Development now depends…
Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) In a historic verdict, the Bombay High Court on Friday permitted the entry of women up to the restricted grave area of the famous Haji Ali Dargah on the rocks off…
Chennai, Aug 26 (IANS) Hot on the heels of the success of Telugu indie “Pellichoopulu”, actress Ritu Varma has been signed opposite Nikhil Siddhartha in director Sudheer Varma’s yet-untitled next film. “Yes, Ritu has been…
By Gokul Bhagabati New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) It may sound exaggerated but the unprecedented growth in Type-2 diabetes over the past 15 years and the deadly rise of cancer have a few common –…
Islamabad, Aug 26 (IANS) Pakistan has informed the Afghan government that no “technical traces” of telephonic contacts between the Kabul university attackers and people on its side of the border could be found. This was…