Singer Marie Fredriksson of Swedish pop duo Roxette died on Monday at the age of 61 after having spent years battling cancer and the lingering effects of its treatment, her manager said. Roxette produced several international hits including four US number ones with It Must Have Been Love, from the […]
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Apple is returning to CES after 27 years. But it’s not for a product
Apple hasn’t attended a CES in 27 years. The last time it did, the then CEO John Scully had pitched a product called Newton. This year, however, Apple will mark its presence at CES 2020 – but not for a product. While other companies will be taking the floor to show […]
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Google is working on making your Pixel more helpful with its new feature drops
Google is now going to send bigger updates to your Pixel with their new feature drops. The whole aim is to make your phone ‘better over time’. The first of the lot, that is scheduled to drop this month, includes ‘a new way to capture portraits, easier Duo calls and […]
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PUBG Mobile 0.16.0 rolls out tomorrow: New RageGear mode, snow in Erangel and more
PUBG Mobile is set for another major update scheduled to roll out on December 11. Unlike other PUBG Mobile updates, servers will not be taken offline for this one. PUBG Mobile 0.16.0 will bring the much awaited death race mode called ‘RageGear’, new snow mode and more. PUBG Mobile 0.16.0 will […]
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‘No safety gear, fire alarm, escape route’, says Delhi Police’s FIR
There was no firefighting equipment, panic alarm, accessible emergency exit, or other safety measures at the old Delhi building gutted in a devastating inferno that killed 43 workers of an illegal factory, the Delhi Police’s FIR said on Monday, even as the victims’ families tried to come to terms with […]
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Local admin in J-K to decide on release of detained political leaders: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said a decision on releasing detained political leaders, including three former chief ministers, in Jammu and Kashmir will be taken by the local administration and the central government will not interfere in the matter. The minister’s statement came after Congress leader in Lok […]
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Protesters back on street against CAB in northeast
Hundreds of protesters took to streets blocking roads, burning tyres and shouting slogans in Assam as life across most parts of the northeast was hit on Tuesday, a day after the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2019 was passed in the Lok Sabha. The North East Students Organisation (NESO) has […]
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Human Rights Day 2019: Knowing the history and significance
Every year, Human Rights Day is observed on December 10. The day was officially adopted in the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The UN came up with a document called Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which defined the rights an individual should enjoy, despite belonging to any race, […]
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5 arrested in MP’s Jabalpur for selling 7000 SIM cards to fraudsters
Five people, including two former managers of different multinational telecom companies, have been arrested by Madhya Pradesh’s cyber cell police for activating about 7000 SIM cards in fictitious names and selling them to fraudsters across the country, officials said. The accused include Rohit Bajaj, a resident of Indore, and Ritesh […]
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Chilean Air Force says Antarctica-bound cargo plane missing with 38 on board
The Chilean Air Force reported on Monday the disappearance of one of its cargo planes that was headed to a base in Antarctica with 38 people on board. The Hercules C130 aircraft took off at 4:55 p.m. (1955 GMT) from the southern city of Punta Arenas and operators lost contact […]
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PM Modi bags India’s ‘Golden Tweet’ of 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tweet celebrating the Bharatiya Janata Party’s re-election victory in 2019 was the most retweeted and liked tweet of the year, making it the “Golden Tweet” in India, the microblogging platform said on Tuesday. In sports, Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) wished M.S. Dhoni (@msdhoni) on his birthday, which […]
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US athlete Pete Frates who inspired ‘ice bucket challenge’ dies at 34
A former US college baseball player who helped inspire the global phenomenon known as the “ice bucket challenge” to tackle a deadly neurodegenerative disease has died at the age of 34, his family said Monday. A one-time college athlete from the Boston area, Pete Frates’ struggle with ALS, also known […]
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Alphabet names Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold to board
Alphabet Inc. named Frances Arnold, a Nobel-prize winning chemist, to its board, bringing the internet giant’s total number of female directors to three. Arnold, a professor at California Institute of Technology, won the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry for her work developing the first proteins that can catalyze chemical reactions […]
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Rani’s daughter Adira turns 4: AbRam, Misha-Zain attend birthday bash
Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra hosted a glitzy unicorn-themed bash birthday bash for their daughter Adira, who turned four on Monday. The party was attended by several Bollywood stars and their children. Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan’s son AbRam Khan, Shahid Kapoor’s children Misha Kapoor and Zain Kapoor, Karan Johar’s twins […]
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‘Unconstitutional’, battleground to shift to SC: Chidambaram on citizenship bill
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram described the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as “patently unconstitutional” on Tuesday and said with its passage in Parliament, the battleground will shift to the Supreme Court. He claimed that the elected lawmakers were abdicating their responsibilities in favour of lawyers and judges. According to the proposed […]