Objecting to an Iranian film Muhammad: Messenger of God, a Muslim group here has issued a fatwa against all those involved in the project, including renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi and music composer A.R. Rahman. “We are against the title. People may use it in a bad manner if they don’t like the film, which will mean an insult to […]
» Read moreAt least 40 people were killed and 35 others injured when explosives kept inside a building went off at Petlwad town in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, police said. Earlier, police had said that the explosion was caused by a cooking gas cylinder kept in the adjacent three-storeyed building housing a hotel. Both the buildings were extensively damaged […]
» Read moreHyderabad: For 18 months, a 21-year-old engineering student from upscale Banjara Hills befriended 200 schoolgirls on Facebook and coaxed or blackmailed nearly half of them to share their nude photographs, before he was finally arrested on Friday. Abdul Majid, 21, had opened eight different FB accounts with pseudo names of women and befriended school-going girls from Hyderabad. “From these accounts, […]
» Read moreNew York: Leander Paes and Swiss Martina Hingis became the first team since 1969 to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in the same season at the US Open on Friday. The fourth seeds defeated American duo Sam Querrey and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 to add the New York crown to their wins at the Australian Open and […]
» Read moreWashington: Google`s Android Pay rolled out Thursday to US customers, becoming the latest system to allow consumers to tap their phones to pay for purchases at retailers. The tap-to-pay system was announced earlier this year as part of an effort to ramp up the Android challenge to Apple, which has a similar system for iPhones. Product manager Pali Bhat said […]
» Read moreBhubaneswar: IIT Bhubaneswar has introduced Odissi dance as a BTech subject becoming the first IIT in the country to introduce any dance form in its curriculum, director RV Rajakumar said here on Friday. The classical dance would be one of the ‘breadth’ course of maximum 12 credits during the four years BTech studies, he said. Each credit means, weekly five […]
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