Mumbai: Bollywood hottie Kareena Kapoor will be seen together with Amir Khan first time on silver screen in upcoming flick ’3 Idiots’. All the credit to persuade Kareena for doing role in the flick opposite Amir goes to her mother. A source said that Amir wanted to work with Kareena. Moreover, producer Vidhu Vinod Chopara [...]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of realtor Emaar MGF in connection with the multi-crore illegal Hawala and investment case involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, PTI reported. The search followed the Enforcement Directorate reportedly finding certain documents that showed Koda’s associates on the board of certain Emaar [...]
Scientists in Japan believe a particular male gene may explain why men do not live as long as women. The gene is passed on to offspring by sperm but is only active in men, allowing them to grow bigger bodies at the expense of longevity, according to the study. Although the study was conducted on [...]
San Francisco: Microsoft has released a revamped version of Bing Maps with street views and other features already offered by rival Google’s free online mapping service. The Bing Maps upgrade released in beta, or test, form also boasts a gallery for applications, such as live traffic data feeds or input from travel webcams or Twitter [...]
Ranchi: The second phase of Jharkhand elections saw a 54.2 per cent turnout on Wednesday, with people coming out to vote even in Maoist strongholds. Polling was largely peaceful, barring one incident in which a security personnel was killed. According to election officials, 54.2 per cent of eligible voters cast the ballot for polls to [...]
Hyderabad : Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao has been shifted from a government hospital in Khammam to Hyderabad’s Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, after his daughter Kavita appealed to the state Human Rights Commission. His son, K T Rama Rao, an MLA and TRS leader, too had demanded that Rao be shifted saying: [...]
Washington: Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine. Google’s announcement came as the News Corp. chairman, who has threatened to block the Internet giant from indexing his newspapers, and [...]
The study, conducted by Australian scientists, showed that food rich in fat and sugar can alter chemical composition in the brain to reduce anxiety. In the study, Professor Margaret Morris, from the University of New South Wales’ School of Medical Sciences, and colleagues found that effects of past trauma could be erased by ‘unlimited access [...]
Melbourne: Publishers of adult magazines are gradually witnessing a slow demise in their businesses, thanks to the unlimited moving pictures available on the Internet. Magazines such as Playboy that reigned the previous eras are allegedly finding it hard to keep up with the net onslaught. The sector was said to have received another blow with [...]
It was the most subtle of gestures, but looking back, many in Dubai now see it as a sign of their salvation. At the grand opening of the Dubai Air Show this month, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan, placed his hand over the hand of Dubai’s ruler, Sheik Mohammed [...]
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