PARIS: Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy — an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.Leaning over the tablet, the little Parisian finger-stabs the duck icon on “Moo Box”, an application with animal images that [...]
CHAPEL HILL: US President Barack Obama “slow jammed” his call to prevent a spike in federal student loan rates during a comedy show appearance early on Wednesday aimed at the youth vote. During a swing through North Carolina — a key battleground in November’s presidential election — Obama appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, [...]
Pooja Bhatt has once again collaborated with Pakistani singer Ali Azmat for her directorial Jism 2. This time the singer has sung two songs for the movie.“Grateful to my friend Ali Azmat for absolutely ROCKING 2 tracks from Jism2. Visa or no Visa, you prove yet again that music has no boundaries,” tweeted Pooja.. Azmat, [...]
Ever since Mohan Babu announced that he would playing King Ravana in a film titled Ravana Brahma there have been several rumours about the rest of the star cast. Recently, rumours were rife that Mohan Babu’s team were in talks with Sridevi, Shriya Saran and several other actors in Bollywood to play important roles in [...]
Pawan Kalyan, Shruti Haasan starrer Gabbar Singh is in last stages of filming. Recently, a couple of songs of Pawan Kalyan’s were canned and sources say that except for them, the rest of the film has been completed. Word is that the film’s core team flew to Europe to shoot those songs and Pawan Kalyan [...]
There was style and there was the glamour quotient as well. City-based designer Shravan Kumar, on Thursday, displayed at the Novotel his collection aptly titled An ode to the Weavers & Weaves of AP.
After staging his maiden concert in Pakistan, singer Kailash Kher is set to entertain audiences in the US with his band Kailasa.“Today, dubbed 2 songs for good movies. Off to USA for 16 concerts. Kailasa is excited, Namaskar Mere Bharat, see you all after 35 days,” Kher posted on his Twitter page. He performed in [...]
Dubai: A 35-year-old Indian driver was sentenced to death here for brutally murdering his former boss, also an Indian, by bludgeoning him with a hammer and stabbing him 30 times following a dispute over salary. The Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday sentenced the driver, identified only as N K, to death. The verdict [...]
Dubai: A 35-year-old Indian driver was sentenced to death here for brutally murdering his former boss, also an Indian, by bludgeoning him with a hammer and stabbing him 30 times following a dispute over salary. The Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday sentenced the driver, identified only as N K, to death. The verdict [...]
The rupee rose by 5 paise to 52.50 against the American currency at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market in early trade today as the American currency fell against Asian rivals. Besides, a higher opening in the equity market on buying by funds further supported the rupee, dealers said. The rupee had ended flat at [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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