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New Delhi: Facing an embarrassing situation, San Francisco-based HackerOne which is vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform and boasts of clients like Starbucks, Instagram, Goldman Sachs, Twitter and Zomato, has paid $20,000 to a user who exposed a vulnerability in its own bug bounty platform. The vulnerability was exposed by a user with the handle […]

Unnao: The mortal remains of the Unnao rape and murder victim were buried on the outskirts of Hindupur village on Sunday afternoon in the presence of thousands of mourners. The victim was buried in a grave next to that of her grandparents. The family had agreed for the burial after an assurance from senior police […]

New Delhi: Amid a growing debate over the impact of single-use plastics on the environment, paper offers a sustainable option and can capture a fourth of the Rs 80,000 crore single-use plastics market by 2025, if its use is totally banned by the government, a new study said. India generated 26,000 tonnes per day of […]

Seoul: North Korea said on Sunday that it has conducted a “very important test” at its western satellite launching site, saying the successful testing will play a key role in changing the country’s “strategic position” in the near future. The North did not say what was tested on Saturday. But South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of […]

By Ashutosh Mishra London: In less than a week from now the people of Britain will be exercising their franchise to decide the future of the country, a future that seems to be hanging in the balance with a fierce debate still raging over Brexit. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson himself has described the December 12 […]

Bhubaneswar: On occasion of valedictory session of Utkal University platinum jubilee celebrations on Sunday, an instance of true friendship caught everyone’s attention when President Ram Nath Kovind called out to meet his old friend Veerbhadra Singh, a former Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha. While President Kovind attended the platinum jubilee function of the varsity as […]

Koraput: Amid country-wide outrage over the rise in the incidents of crime against women, an increasing number of minor school girls getting pregnant have raised serious concerns over the safety of girls in the State. A Class 10 girl student of a tribal residential school in Laxmipur block of Koraput district has been allegedly impregnated […]

Chennai: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket would launch the country’s latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites on December 11, said the Indian space agency. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the rocket numbered as PSLV-C48 will lift off at 3.25 p.m. with RISAT-2BR1, a radar imaging earth observation satellite […]

Bhubaneswar: Like the 2018 winter, will power cuts return this winter in Odisha, especially when a Central Electricity Authority’s report predict a 139 MW peak deficit in December 2019? When last year poor hydropower generation was behind the power crisis in winter, the situation is not so this winter. The hydropower generating reservoirs in the […]

Canberra: The Indian junior women’s hockey team on Sunday won the three-nations tournament here as they finished top of the points table despite suffering their first loss of the competition. The Indian team lost 1-2 to hosts Australia in their fourth and final match of the competition which saw India’s Gagandeep Kaur score in the […]

Pune: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said bringing laws to curb atrocities against women was not the only solution as “political will” and “administrative skills” were required to end the social evil. Referring to recent incidents in Unnao and Hyderabad, Naidu said, “In Indian culture, we treat a woman as a mother, a […]

Mumbai: Actress Deepika Padukone on Sunday treated her fans with a picture of her new hairdo. It seems she has chopped off her hair. “Tadaaaaa!!,” Deepika captioned the image. Her picture has garnered a lot of comments from social media users and her friends from the film industry, leaving them in awe of her look. […]

Mumbai: Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar was discharged from Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital on Sunday after 28 days of stay for pneumonia treatment. Sharing her health update, Mangeshkar took to Twitter and wrote: “Namaskaar, For the past 28 days, I was at Breach Candy hospital. I was diagnosed with pneumonia. The doctors preferred that I extend […]

New Delhi: A video showing a group of people dressed in Avenger costumes and dancing to the song ‘Disco Deewane’ from ‘Student Of The Year’, which marked the debut of Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra has gone viral on social media. The 27-second video was shared on Twitter with the caption, “If Karan […]

Kathmandu: Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik led the charge as Indian grapplers clinched four gold medals on day three of wrestling competitions at the 13th South Asian Games here on Sunday. Indian wrestlers thus continued their complete domination in wrestling as they have so far won gold medals in all the 12 categories. While Sakshi […]