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Mumbai: Choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan, who is known to make films with established actors said on Tuesday that her next film is a girl-centric film which doesn’t have any stars in it. Farah Khan told IANS, “I have written a script and this time its a small script, and it’s not star-driven. It’s a two girls […]

London: TV personality Katie Price’s husband Kieran Hayler says they might renew their wedding vows in the “distant future”. The couple have got their marriage back on track after troubles ensued between them when Hayler was caught cheating with two of Price’s close friends. After Price dolled up in a wedding dress during filming for […]

Seoul: Giving a refreshing look to its Galaxy Note series ahead of the Apple event, Samsung has introduced an iris biometric scanner in its flagship Note 7 which, according to company officials, is the first globally. Announcing this at its Galaxy Note Unpacked 2016 here on Tuesday, Samsung said the Note 7 with curved display […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will participate in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil. The ceremony will be held on Friday. Ban will participate in a relay in which the Olympic Torch is handed over, Xinhua news agency quoted UN spokesperson Stephane […]

Washington: Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of the planet condensing as ice, say NASA-funded researchers, revealing the freezing effects of its shadow during daily eclipses on the moon’s volcanic gases. Io is the most volcanically-active object in the solar system. “This is the first time scientists have […]

Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee government on Tuesday proposed to rename West Bengal as “Bengal”, dropping “West” from its name, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee said. “For the sake of the people of the state, its heritage and culture as well as to promote and protect its interests at the national level, we have proposed to […]

New Delhi: A court here on Tuesday fixed August 4 for pronouncing the quantum of punishment for Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of the 2010 Hindi film ‘Peepli Live’, convicted for the rape of an American woman. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain reserved his order after the defence and prosecution concluded their arguments on the quantum of […]

New Delhi: Ahead of taking up the GST bill in the Rajya Sabha, the government on Tuesday circulated the amendments to the draft leislation among the members of the house. Some members, however, demanded that the bill should be circulated again as there were new members in the house, to which government agreed. The bill, […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked young Indian civil servants to remain “fearless” and “frank” during their interactions with the senior officers. Modi addressed Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers of the 2014 batch before they start their three-month attachment as Assistant Secretaries to the central government. “Officers should not to be overawed […]

Shimla: In a setback to the state government, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday quashed a criminal case registered against state cricket body chief and BJP MP Anurag Thakur on charge of encroaching land to construct the Dharamsala stadium. It also set aside the chargesheet framed by the chief judicial magistrate of Dharamsala against […]

Rio De Janeiro: The 129th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) started officially got with a ceremony at the Cidade Das Artes in Rio de Janeiro. In his opening speech on Monday night, IOC President Thomas Bach paid tribute to the extraordinary work and efforts deployed by the Rio 2016 Organising Committee and the […]

Bengaluru: Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, a division of Wipro Enterprises Ltd., on Monday announced it has acquired Israel-based aerospace firm H.R. Givon for an undisclosed amount. “The acquisition will help us to broaden product portfolio, expand global footprint and forge deeper customer ties in the aviation and aerospace industry,” the city-based company subsidiary said in a […]

Tokyo: There is a huge region around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, which is devoid of young stars, an international team of astronomers has found. “The current results indicate that there has been no significant star formation in this large region over hundreds of millions years,” said one of the study authors Giuseppe […]

Sydney: Researchers have found hammerhead sharks to be just like lazy human swimmers by choosing to swim on their side in a bid to conserve energy, a study published in the journal Nature Communications showed. An international team of scientists observing endangered great hammerhead sharks in Australia, Belize and Bahamas originally thought one of the […]

New Delhi: Chinese technology company Lenovo on Monday launched two devices — K5 Note with theatreMax technology and an enhanced version of Vibe K5 Plus with an array of supported devices — in India. The Lenovo K5 Note starts at Rs 11,999 for 3GB varient and Rs 13,499 for the 4GB varient. The device is […]