“Revenge porn” website sold over to anti-bullying group “Revenge porn” website IsAnyoneUp.com has been shut down by its owner, who sold his domain to anti-bullying group Bullyville.com. The website IsAnyoneUp.com encouraged people to send in intimate pictures of their exes for more than a year, reported BBC News. Owner Hunter Moore said he made the [...]
Manuel Gozalo is trying to save Spanish villages one couple at a time. Good thing, since Jose Miguel has run out of women to date in tiny Candeleda. Single women of the world: Spain is looking for you. The men of Candeleda, a tiny riverside town about halfway between Madrid and the Portuguese border, are [...]
An innovation seeks big bucks by serving the gluten-averse KAMPALA: Bananas are a big deal in Uganda. The average person in this East African nation of 33 million consumes 660 pounds of the fruit annually, the highest rate in the world. The many varieties grown here include tiny sweet dessert bananas, cooking plantains, and Cavendish [...]
Kolkata: Amar Sen knows literally how to create the world with his fingers. With a swish and a flick of his fingers, grains of sand transform into pictures and, in silhouette, his fingers imitate a tiger, a peepul tree, a bird, a house… almost anything. Sen says he introduced sand animation or creating images with [...]
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the compensation of Rs one crore to the families of two fishermen allegedly killed by two Italian marines, the Ministry of External Affairs today said the detention case against those two Italians will continue. Reiterating India’s position that it has the jurisdiction over the matter, official spokesperson in the MEA Syed Akbaruddin said there [...]
New Delhi: The BJP today maintained that the suspension of Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh for demanding a separate state of Telangana was an unprecedented event which embarrassed the government as these legislators were speaking against their own party and its indecision on the issue. “This is an unprecedented and extra-ordinary incident where the ruling party had [...]
Hyderabad: The merger proposal of Mahindra Satyam (MSat) with Tech Mahindra will be taken up in the Annual General Meetings (AGMs) of both the companies to be held in June, a top executive of MSat said here today. Both Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange have given their nod for the merger proposal, according to MSat [...]
New Delhi: The Election Commission has directed all states and union territories to introduce the EVM tracking software and enter all data pertaining to electronic voting machines within 15 days. In a letter to Chief Electoral officers of states and union territories in the country, the Commission said that with some states showing more than [...]
Washington: People with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) who consume a peg or two daily are half as likely to develop hepatitis as non-alcoholics with the same condition, says a new study. NALFD is the most common liver disease in the US, affecting up to a third of American adults. It’s characterized by abnormal fat [...]
NEW DELHI: Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party. The mutilation occurred not in Africa, where the practice is most prevalent, but in India where a small Muslim sub-sect known as the Dawoodi Bohra continues to [...]
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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