New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Wednesday shifted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here and is likely to undergo further tests for her fever and high blood pressure, doctors said. “Soniaji was brought to our hospital around 1.45 p.m. Senior doctors are attending on her,” a senior doctor told IANS. Earlier, Gandhi, […]

New York: In a yet another reported copying of mobile messaging app Snapchat which it once tried to buy for $3 billion, Facebook has announced a “Stories” format for Instagram that clones Snapchat’s popular feature. Instagram copying Snapchat’s “Stories” feature is a smart attempt to make its rival less unique and Facebook didn’t even give […]

London: People infected with a parasitic worm called Wuchereria Bancrofti may be more likely to acquire HIV than people who are not infected with the worm, a new Lancet study says. W Bancrofti is a mosquito-borne parasitic worm. Worldwide, it causes 90 percent of lymphatic filariasis cases, a disease is commonly known as elephantiasis, which […]

New Delhi, Aug 3: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to express an opinion on whether a lawmaker, after being expelled from a party, would attract disqualification under the anti-defection law for defying its whip during voting in the legislature. “We are not answering the questions,” said a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Arun Mishra, […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday cleared the air on party president Amit Shah being appointed as the next Chief Minister of Gujarat after Anandiben Patel offered to resign from the post on Monday. He also said that the next chief minister would be from the existing party MLAs in Gujarat. “There […]

New Delhi, Aug 3: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said the BJP had gone on a witch-hunt against its MP Bhagwant Mann for his alleged breach of Parliament security. “All the MPs of the ruling coalition, especially from the BJP, are trying to corner Mann. This is an unprecedented witch-hunt against our MP,” […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will participate in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city in Brazil. The ceremony will be held on Friday. Ban will participate in a relay in which the Olympic Torch is handed over, Xinhua news agency quoted UN spokesperson Stephane […]

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 3: A traditional Olympic ceremony greeted the Indian contingent at the formal welcome ceremony in the Olympic Village for the 31st edition starting on Friday. The ceremony lasted about 45 minutes. It saw more than half the Indian contingent gather on Tuesday. The Indian contingent was elegantly dressed in white India […]

Srinagar: Tempers ran high in Srinagar’s old city on Wednesday after a guard at an ATM booth was found dead, with hundreds of pellets fired from close range, officials and residents said. The cause of Riyaz Ahmad Shah’s death was confirmed by an autopsy report. Official sources told IANS that doctors who performed the post-mortem […]

New Delhi, Aug 3: Taiwan-based technology major ASUS on Wednesday launched a new version of its Zenfone Selfie (ZD551KL) smartphone in India at Rs 12,999. The phone is available on Amazon and can be purchased from retail outlets from September. The 5.5-inch device is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor and has 3GB RAM and […]