Chennai : Why would you shave off your head for someone you haven’t met and probably don’t know of? Yet Rennee Saradha didn’t think twice. It wasn’t for fashion; it was for a cause. Read on why women in Chennai have been donating their hair all of this month. When something as simple as a […]
Washington : The U.S. government has warned airlines to pay particular attention to the possibility of terrorists attempting to hide explosives in shoes, a result of new intelligence, according to two people familiar with the situation. The officials stressed there is no specific threat or known plot. Intelligence collected by the United States and other […]
New Delhi : While you were busy liking someone’s post or uploading that cute photograph of your puppy, a young Syrian girl was reportedly being stoned to death in Syria. Her crime? She had opened a Facebook account. The incident took place in the Syrian city of Rakka. The girl, Fatoum Al-Jassem, was sentenced to […]
Bangalore: After a Telugu speaker from Andhra Pradesh has taken over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, a Kannada speaker from neighbouring Karnataka is set become the new Surgeon General of America. The healthy competition between two southern states has seen one more interesting development. The 36-year-old Dr Vivek Hallegere Murthy or Dr […]
Bangalore: Nearly two months since the brutal attack inside a Bangalore ATM left a lady partially paralyzed, there have been no arrests. What’s more is that banks have sought more time to implement the strict guidelines recommended following the incident. The Bangalore police reviewed security at ATMs after the 45-day deadline to banks to comply […]
Bangalore: If the members of the 13th Legislative Assembly were beneficiaries of computer tablets, those of the 14th Assembly will get a laptop each. Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa said that all members have been asked to purchase laptops not exceeding Rs. 60,000 each. Members have been given the option to buy […]
Mumbai : ‘Kai Po Che’ actor Sushant Singh Rajput has reportedly tied the knot to longtime ladylove and Ankita Lokhande. The couple have been in a live-in-relationship for the past five-year courtship. Rumours suggest that Ankita and Sushant decided to marry owing to family pressure and kept their marriage a secret due to their respective […]
New Delhi: The three Khans of Bollywood have gone three different ways – Shah Rukh Khan is seen as a Rahul Gandhi backer, Aamir Khan is for Aam Aadmi Party and now Salman Khan is pulling strings for Narendra Modi in public gaze. None of them have made any official endorsements but all three have […]
Melbourne: An Australian man has set up a website to allow people to vote for his daughter’s first and middle names. Stephen McLaughlin, a web developer, created the website called namemydaughter.com, where netizens can vote for their favourite name for the baby which is due on April 2. “My name is Stephen and much to […]
Pune: The proportion of Indian men who smoke every day has fallen from a third to a little over a fifth over the last three decades, but the percentage of women smokers has remained largely unchanged. Given the country’s population, this means in absolute numbers India has more women smokers than in every country except […]
