SAN FRANCISCO: Google has launched a new consumer service offering up to 16TB (terabytes) of storage for photos and other online content. Dubbed Google Drive, the service goes head to head with rival cloud services such as Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. It offers 5GB (gigabytes) of storage for free. People pay on a rising scale [...]
DAMASCUS: International peace envoy Kofi Annan has called for the rapid deployment of 300 ceasefire monitors in Syria, branding violence levels “unacceptable” 12 days into a promised truce. UN Security Council powers called on the United Nations to speed up the deployment of monitors, but a top UN official said it will take at least [...]
Dean Potter walked across Enshi Grand Canyon on a slackline less than an inch thick Dean Potter, a daredevil from New Hampshire, crossed China’s Enshi Grand Canyon on a slackline less than an inch thick on Sunday, ABC News reported. 40-year-old Potter balanced his way across 130 feet of gaping canyon in central China’s Hubei [...]
Smurf, the cow, has produced 1mn glasses of milk A cow from a farm near the Canadian capital Ottawa has set a new world record for the most milk produced in a lifetime. ‘Gillette Emperor Smurf’ has produced 4,78,167 pounds of milk in her 15-year lifetime, beating the previous record set by Michigan cow ‘Tacoma [...]
World Book Night donates millions of free books NEW YORK: Thousands of towns and cities around the country and beyond are participating in the second annual World Book Night, when some 2.5 million free books are expected to be donated, the Associated Press reported. Among the 30 books being given out are Maya Angelou’s I [...]
Panaji: A private firm providing lifeguard services in Goa has said that there are no beaches in the state that can be termed as “hazardous” for swimming, except for the fact that a large number of “footfalls” on a few seashores make them prone to accidents. Drishti Special Response Services (DSRS), which has been manning [...]
Bhubaneswar: Maoists have decided to release Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka on Thursday after he promised to resign from the assembly if the rebels’ demands were not fulfilled, a lawyer said today (Wednesday). Nihar Ranjan Patnaik, who is based in Koraput district and fights cases for the rebels, told a TV channel that the Maoists will [...]
Scientists say that this discovery may help in developing new treatments for migraine headaches Researchers find the cause for the infamous brain freeze, also known as an ‘ice cream headache.’ Scientists say the discovery may help in developing new treatments for migraine headaches, which plague about 20 per cent of the population. According to a [...]
New Delhi: The debate over presidential candidate picked up further momentum with RJD chief Lalu Prasad pitching for Vice-President Hamid Ansari while other parties kept the cards close to their chest. In an interesting development, Gopalakrishna Gandhi met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubhaneswar, fuelling speculation that the visit was linked to presidential poll. [...]
A Canadian study found that seniors in the earliest stages of dementia improved their performance on cognitive tests after regular resistance training Strength training may help to reverse memory loss in elderly women in early stages of dementia, according to a new study. CTV reported that researchers studied 86 women who were between the age [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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