Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday announced a recall for over 1.34 lakh units of WagonR and Baleno manufactured between January 8 and November 4 of 2019. This is one of the biggest recalls from the company in recent times and is to investigate a possible fault in the fuel pump of […]
Facebook to take on YouTube with official music videos
Facebook could be taking on YouTube with its next venture as it plans on launching licensed music videos on its platform. Music videos on Facebook are said to appear starting next month for users in the US. Facebook has been informing official pages of artists about a new feature that […]
Bipasha Basu says ‘actors are most vulnerable’ amid Covid-19 crisis
Actor Bipasha Basu feels that returning to film and TV shooting sets is ‘plain risky’ as actors are ‘most vulnerable’. She had reacted to a post by a paparazzo on Kasautii Zindagii Kay actor Parth Samthaan testing positive to coronavirus. She had written: “All shoots should stop till the situation is little better. […]
WhatsApp back online after suffering a major global outage
WhatsApp suffered a global outage in the wee hours today with users not being able to use the messaging app at all. The WhatsApp outage was reported globally including India. According to Downdetector, the WhatsApp outage started sometime around 1:00 am earlier today. It quickly picked up pace for around two hours […]
Janhvi Kapoor’s Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl to release on August 15
Bollywood actor Janhvi Kapoor’s biopic of air force pilot Gunjan Saxena, titled Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is expected to release on Independence Day, August 15 on Netflix. The film, which was made for the big screen, chose the digital route as theatres remained closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. A Bollywood Hungama report […]
JioPhone 3 rumours pick pace ahead of RIL AGM 2020
Ahead of Reliance’s 43rd Annual General Meeting (AGM), rumours of a JioPhone 3 have resurfaced online. The elusive phone was widely rumoured to debut at the last year’s AGM. Evidently, it did not happen. In the past, Reliance has used its AGMs to showcase low-cost smart feature phones. At the […]
Amitabh Bachchan shares tribute for doctors from hospital, calls them ‘god like incarnations, companions of the sufferer’
Actor Amitabh Bachchan has shared an appreciation post for doctors on Twitter. The actor was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Sunday and was admitted to Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital. The actor, in his tweet, has paid a tribute to doctors for their selfless service to humanity. “Pristine white their layered dress ; dedicated to […]
Google is in advanced talks to invest $4 billion in Jio Platforms
Google is in advanced talks to buy a $4 billion stake in Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s technology venture, people familiar with the matter said, seeking to join rival Facebook Inc. in chasing growth in a promising internet and e-commerce market. The Mountain View, California-based company has been discussing the investment in […]
Judge rejects tentative $19 million Harvey Weinstein deal
A $19 million settlement between Harvey Weinstein and some of his accusers and the state of New York was rejected Tuesday by a judge. US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan said Weinstein’s accusers in the proposed class-action settlement were too varied to be grouped together. Three lawyers for several women […]
CBSE Class 10th results 2020 declared, check all important details here
CBSE Class 10th results 2020: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday released its class 10 results recording an overall pass percentage of 91.46% this year. In 2019, the overall pass percentage across the country stood at 91.10%. Out of the 18,73,015 students who appeared this year, 17,13,121 students […]
Dhoni, Rohit , Ponting, Clarke: Hussey explains captaincy styles of greats
Former Australia batsman Michael Hussey has had the opportunity to play under some of the best captains of world cricket. Whether it was playing under Ricky Ponting or Michael Clarke for Australia or playing under MS Dhoni for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, and under Rohit Sharma in Mumbai […]
Railways could drop Chinese company bid for 44 Vande Bharat trains under Rs 1,500-cr project
The Indian Railways might not consider the bid of CRRC Corporation, the Chinese state-owned company that is the lone foreign player in the tender for the semi-high speed indigenous Train 18 project, ThePrint has learnt. The CRRC has emerged as the only foreign company to bid for the global tender […]
Not just India, Tibet — China has 17 territorial disputes with its neighbours, on land & sea
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the country’s formal rejection of “most” of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea Monday. This comes after China increased military presence in the region following the coronavirus pandemic began. While the US does not claim rights over any territory in the region, it supports […]
Covid-19: Thais seek to fix errors that allowed infected foreigners in
Authorities in Thailand urged almost 1,900 people to quarantine themselves and get tested for the coronavirus after a breakdown in screening allowed two foreigners with the disease to pose a risk to public health. The agency coordinating Thailand’s coronavirus response also announced Tuesday it is rolling back regulations for admitting […]
US Open still on, but USTA cancels other events
The US Tennis Association has cancelled several amateur events scheduled in August because of the coronavirus pandemic but is still planning to hold the US Open starting August 31. USTA National Championships in certain junior age groups for singles and doubles are being scrapped. That includes boys’ 18s in Orlando […]