In a bid to combat spam on its platform, Twitter has changed its rules to allow users to follow up to 400 accounts a day. The micro-blogging platform earlier allowed users to follow up to 1,000 accounts. “Follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow. Who does that? Spammers. So we’re changing the number of accounts you can follow […]
Actress Parineeti Chopra has been devoting two hours daily to watch match footage and public appearance videos of Saina Nehwal to get into the mind of the ace badminton player. The “Ishaqzaade” actress has been prepping intensely for the character to ensure she is able to get Nehwal’s mannerisms and body language as well as […]
India opener Rohit Sharma turned a new leaf in his career when Mahendra Singh Dhoni asked him to open the innings for India. There was no looking back for the run-machine since. But he isnt the only one who has benefited from being pushed to the top of the order. Rajasthan Royals opener Jos Buttler […]
Book: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe; Author: Roger McNamee; Publisher: Harper Collins; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 336 Facebook is perhaps the best example of how a great idea of connecting with family and friends online can become a catastrophe in just 15 years of its existence. From the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, housing […]
The Nizamabad seat from where Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha is seeking re-election is set to create history with the largest number of candidates, including 178 farmers, who entered the fray to highlight their problems. Kavitha, state Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and former union minister Renuka Chowdary are among the […]
The Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party (SP-BSP) alliance has announced Arun Shankar Shukla, alias Anna Maharaj, as its candidate from the Unnao Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Anna has replaced former MLA Pooja Pal whose ticket was cancelled because of some “technical problem” in her documents, Rajesh Yadav, SP District Secretary, said on Monday. “Anna […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp Business, a free-to-download communication app specifically designed for small businesses, is now officially available for iPhone users in several countries, including in India. The WhatsApp Business app, used by businesses to support customers, grow their businesses and serve their communities all over the world, was launched for Android in January 2018. “Today we’re […]
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are striving to provide an insight into Parkinson’s disease, the chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects more than five million people worldwide, NASA has revealed. The team, comprising astronauts Serena Aunon-Chancellor from NASA and Alexander Gerst from the European Space Agency (ESA), are studying a group of protein crystals […]
Film: “Romeo Akbar Walter!”; Director: Robbie Grewal; Cast: John Abraham, Mouni Roy, Sikander Kher, Jackie Shroff, Alka Amin and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi; Rating: **1/2 Director Robbie Grewal seems to have taken William Shakespeare’s quote, “What’s in a name?” literally. This film, “Romeo Akbar Walter” is the story of an Indian spy with many names and identities. […]
The beleaguered Videocon Group has admitted to stupendous outstandings to various lenders – public and private – amounting to over Rs 90,000 crore, making it perhaps the biggest corporate bankruptcy case in Indian banking history, official sources said on Thursday. The company, however, said the total dues amount to around Rs.39,000 crore, most of which […]