Fast food companies advertise children’s meals on TV with ads that feature toy premiums, and the use of these toy premiums may prompt children to request eating at fast food restaurants, a study suggests. The researchers found that the more children watched television channels that aired ads for children’s fast food meals, the more frequently […]
People from Bihar living in different parts of the northeast are intimately monitoring the on-going assembly polls in the state. Thousands of people from Bihar are living in several northeastern states, especially in Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, and engaging themselves in various trades and diverse works. Most of them are reluctant to go to their […]
Actor Rajinikanth may soon watch the critically-acclaimed documentary “For the Love of a Man” about the superstar’s phenomenon and his fandom. Post the screening on Sunday here at the ongoing Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, its director Rinku Kalsy said she plans to show the film to Rajinikanth soon. “I met Rajinikanth’s daughter Aishwarya couple […]
Neha Dhupia, a former Miss India who eventually turned to Bollywood, feels the era of supermodels is waning out from the country’s fashion scene because most models are smitten with the glitz and glamour of the silver screen. However, she finds nothing wrong with the trend. Madhu Sapre, Sheetal Mallar, Mehr Jessia Rampal and Nethra […]
In partnership with a commercial lab, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed a simple and affordable diagnostic test to detect the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya. While not often deadly, chikungunya causes severe, incapacitating and often chronic joint pain. To create the test, the researchers used another mosquito-borne virus named Eilat […]
The police have apologized for their treatment of Sikh protesters during a demonstration outside the Indian embassy last month, a media report said on Sunday. Mak Chishty, Metropolitan Police’s chief of community engagement, said concerns had been raised by Sikh representatives about the actions of some officers at the October 22 protest, the Evening Standard […]
A day after the killing of a publisher of secular books in Bangladesh, another publisher on Sunday received threats to his life through SMS. “You have published many books of atheists, you have sinned. Be prepared for death! Al-Ahrar, UK,” reads the SMS sent to Somoy Prakashan publisher Farid Ahmed, The Daily Star reported. The […]
Indo-Swiss tennis combine of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis struck gold one more time this year by clinching the women’s doubles title of the WTA Finals here on Sunday. The top seeds beat Spanish eighth seeds Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3 in an hour and seven minutes on the hard courts of […]
Filmmaker Prakash Jha, who has wrapped shooting for his upcoming film “Jai Gangaajal”, has left on a solo vacation to Paris and London. He says he wants to “catch up with friends” and “brood” on his next film. “There is no agenda of this vacation. I just wanted to catch up with friends and chill […]
Tolerance can take the offense out of a debate and instil respect, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Saturday, adding India has always protected debate and the right to hold different views. “Tolerance can take the offense out of a debate, and indeed instil respect. If I go berserk every time a […]