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Colombo: Sri Lanka on Monday declared a nationwide curfew as anti-Muslim riots spread to parts of the island nation, just three weeks after multiple suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State killed over 250 people and...

New Delhi: The CBI on Monday said that it has registered a case and carried out searches at over 22 places in Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh in connection with the alleged irregularities in...

New Delhi: A Delhi-based cybersecurity company claims to have discovered an application on Google Play Store and Apple App Store spoofs the user’s identity and makes calls. According to cybersecurity firm GIS Consulting, the app...

New Delhi: As part of its efforts to re-establish Doordarshan as “the channel of India” and to help viewers savour the nostalgia of its famous shows and serials, the national broadcaster on Monday launched its...

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has granted approval to five courses of FTII under its newly-created Applied Arts and Crafts category, an official release said on Monday. The film school is...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he is prepared to impose tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports to the US as the trade war between the world’s two largest economies intensified. “We have...

Guangzhou (China): Playing badminton on the beach? Yes, it is now becoming real and official. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) launched a new outdoor game, AirBadminton, and a new outdoor shuttlecock, the AirShuttle, at a...

Washington: The family of a US man who was employed at a restaurant owned by Tiger Woods, has sued the ace golfer, his girlfriend and his company, saying they should have prevented him from drinking...

Kolkata: A total of 710 companies of the central forces will be deployed for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal covering nine parliamentary seats on May 19, according to Central...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has hosted his second annual iftar dinner at the White House and said it’s “been a very rough time” for Muslims around the world. The dinner, which breaks the daily fast...

New Delhi: Grounded Jet Airways continues to lose its senior executives dashing hopes of the airline’s revival. The latest to quit the company is its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Deputy Chief Executive (CEO) Amit...

Washington: NASA’s ambitious plan to put the first woman on the Moon by 2024 has been named Artemis. It was set in motion following an additional increase to the agency’s budget. NASA’s plans for the...

Mumbai: OTT platform Hotstar broke global records by registering 18.6 million concurrent viewers in the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 final. The final match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings that took place...

San Francisco: WhatsApp has urged its 1.5 billion users to upgrade the app after the Facebook-owned platform discovered a vulnerability that allowed a spyware to be installed on users’ phones via the app’s phone call...

Cannes: Grammy and Oscar-winning musician A.R. Rahman broke his Ramadan fast and had his iftar dinner here. Rahman is here to promote his directorial “Le Musk” (India’s first virtual reality film) presented by Intel at the...

New Delhi: The Indian government has extended ban on the Sri Lanka-based militant and political organisation Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for another five years, a notification on Tuesday said. The step was taken...

Mumbai: Key equity indices opened marginally higher but turned range-bound on Tuesday over weak global cues and increasing nervousness owing to the ongoing general elections. Markets saw a lack of participation owing to the heightened...

Mumbai: Actors Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar are currently on a beach holiday and have shared their sun-kissed photographs from the location. The couple have shared a string of photographs from their holiday on Instagram. In...

Mumbai: Indian skipper Virat Kohli won the international cricketer of the year award, while Smriti Mandhana bagged the international woman cricketer of the year award at the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards 2019. Kohli also won...

San Francisco: Facebook has decided to raise minimum wages to its outside vendors in the US to $20 per hour, and would implement the same for contractors in other countries including in India. Content moderators and...