Hyderabad, June 5 (IANS) Lycos, one of the leading internet brands, has announced that it will launch next week Lycos Life, a line of wearable devices that serve as a single point of entry into users’ digital lives. Initially delivered in the form of a smart wristband (priced at $124.99) and ring ($59.99), Lycos Life […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi Can the humble potato really help you make a fortune? So much so that you be crowned as ‘The Potato King’? Sounds a bit unreal, right? You anyway couldn’t be more wrong. Punjab based Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha is here to prove you wrong at this. Sangha and his family are the leading producers of potato and maize […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi One built the TajMahal for his dead wife and the other named a city after her. Hyderabad, more famous today as Cyberabad, was named because of the love of Muhammad Quli for RaniBhagmati, later called Begum HaidarMahal. It is a striking example of what inspired lovers are capable of doing. And […]
Agra Even as measures — some of them knee-jerk — are being taken to stop the majestic TajMahal from turning yellow, the exact causes for the monument’s discoloration are yet to be ascertained, a recent analysis shows. The analysis was undertaken by science and environment fortnightly ‘Down To Earth’. “We will not be able to […]
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Firecrackers lit the night sky, and young and old danced and jived as Kolkata residents indulged in wild celebrations after city football giants Mohun Bagan were crowned national champions after a gap of 13 years. Donning the green and maroon jerseys, hundreds of people hit the streets throwing gulal at each […]
Srinagar, May 30 (IANS) Separatist guerrillas on Saturday evening lobbed a grenade at a police station in Handwara in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir which exploded without causing any damage, an official said. “Militants hurled a powerful hand grenade at the police station in Handwara this evening. The grenade exploded without causing any damage,” […]
Baghdad, May 30 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Saturday continued their battles against Islamic State (IS) militants in the western Anbar province, while air strikes killed 28 IS militants, including senior leaders, security sources and official television said. In Anbar province, the security forces and allied militias known as Hashd Shaabi, moved closer to the […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday remembered filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh on his second death anniversary, saying his passing away was a “huge loss” for the state. “On this day two years ago, we lost Rituparno Ghosh. His passing away was a huge loss for Bengal. He is our pride. We miss you Ritu,” […]
A brain protein believed to be a key component in the progress of dementia can cause memory loss in healthy brains even before physical signs of degeneration appear, says a new University of Sussex study. The study reveals a direct link between the main culprit of Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized […]
Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar said luck played a big part earlier in his cricketing career which spanned over 16 years from making his Test debut in March, 1971 to playing his last One-Day-International (ODI) in November, 1987. On the sidelines of the launch of former India opener Madhav Apte’s autobiography ‘As Luck Would Have It’ […]