HIGHLIGHTS Walt Disney was earlier said to be in the line to bid for Twitter Salesforce and Google earlier backed out from the bidding Twitter is reported to be seeking about $30 billion for its sale Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Feature suggests topics on the basis of friends’ activities Feature has been named “Conversation Topics” Messenger app on Android recently introduced data saver option Facebook Messenger has introduced a new feature called “Conversation Topics”, which is likely to be a conversation topic in itself. As the name suggests, this new feature essentially suggests topics for conversation to the app ... Read More »
Anup Kumar (second from right) during the final against Iran in the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup held in Ahmedabad. Photo: PTI Anup Kumar emerged from the hour-long team meeting sporting an autographed Australian rules football jersey gifted to him by the visiting Australian team. “Jab harte hain to meeting lambi hi chalti hai (when we lose, the meeting lasts longer),” ... Read More »
A view of Saur from the Nepali farm trail. Photo: Malavika Bhattacharya The game plan to deal with Delhi’s pollution, while hoping that winters will arrive soon, is simple. Run to the nearest hills. The only dampener? Even though summer is on its way out, you may still encounter crowds from the National Capital Region’s malls on Mussoorie’s Mall Road. ... Read More »
The engineers at Audi have really worked to make the engine more efficient and eco-friendly. Audi’s R8 is lauded as the perfect supercar—a high-performance machine that you can easily use every day as well. And that has been true through the car’s evolution, from its original V8 roots to the second-generation V10 that came out last year. This year, the ... Read More »
The 11.6-inch LED display is crisp and bright enough for productivity tasks and Web browsing Affordable laptops are now matching their more expensive counterparts in terms of flexibility and performance. Dell new Inspiron 11 3000 2-in-1 Rs.39,690 Before you get confused with another Dell laptop that goes by the same name, this is actually an evolution of that, with a ... Read More »
Photo: iStockphoto It is the end of the day. You are tired. You don’t want to stretch; you don’t want to squat. You just want to vegetate in front of the TV. How do you optimize this experience? An easy way is to learn some mudras. Mudras are hand gestures, used in most Eastern religions. As Ramaa Bharadvaj, a dancer ... Read More »
The no-fail policy entails that no children in the 6-14 age group can be held back in any class up to Class VIII. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint New Delhi: The Union government is in a fix over whether to go ahead and scrap the no-fail policy in schools after at least six states, most of them ruled by the Bharatiya Janata ... Read More »
The CBSE class X board was made optional during 2009-10 when the United Progressive Alliance was in power. Photo: Prasad Gori/HT New Delhi: The Union government is bringing back examinations in elementary schools across the country and Class X board exams for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students. At a meeting in New Delhi attended by state education ministers ... Read More »
Paul Beatty, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, poses with his novel ‘The Sellout’ at The Guildhall on 25 October 2016 in London. Photo: Reuters London: Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for “The Sellout”, a biting satire on race relations in the United States. The narrator ... Read More »
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