After a year and a half or so on sale, says Cook, Apple is now the number-two watch brand behind Rolex. And the top-selling smartwatch. What we’re seeing here is something designed to blend Pokemon Go with your daily walk or run. As you walk, you can see calories burned, for instance. When a Pokemon appears, you don’t have to Read More

Swiss third seed Stanislas Wawrinka outlasted tiring former champion Juan Martin del Potro in four sets to advance to the semi-finals of the US Open on Wednesday. Twice Grand Slam winner Wawrinka ended the rousing comeback effort by the Argentine at Flushing Meadows with a 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win to close out Day 10 at the year’s last Grand Read More

Last year, Rajesh Gupta, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Jammu East, demanded to know in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly how much money the Government of India spends every year on providing security to Kashmiri separatist leaders. Gupta, image, below , was shocked at the reply. “We are spending Rs 100 crore every year on these separatist leaders,” he fumes. Read More

Five brothers playing first-class cricket, four of whom appearing in Test matches as well. Cricket historians and statisticians have never been tired of recounting how Hanif Mohammad, who passed into the ages on August 11, and his three brothers dominated Pakistan cricket in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Apart from Hanif, the eldest, Wazir Mohammad, and younger ones, Mushtaq Mohammad Read More

Five brothers playing first-class cricket, four of whom appearing in Test matches as well. Cricket historians and statisticians have never been tired of recounting how Hanif Mohammad, who passed into the ages on August 11, and his three brothers dominated Pakistan cricket in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Apart from Hanif, the eldest, Wazir Mohammad, and younger ones, Mushtaq Mohammad Read More

11:41  Modi appoints 4 ministers to brief media on Kashmir unrest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Anath Kumar to brief the media about the government’s efforts to bring peace to troubled Kashmir. The development comes after the one-sides news presentation after Read More

Seated in her tiny home in Kurla in north Mumbai, Reshma Qureshi has plenty of unanswered questions. “How come it’s easier to buy acid than get the right shade of lipstick?” “Why can’t people treat me normally, just like they would treat other girls my age?” Reshma is just like any girl her age. She shares the same excitement of Read More

Activists of Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha on Thursday staged a protest against Arvind Kejriwal at the railway station in New Delhi, questioning his “silence” over expelled MLA Sandeep Kumar, with the Aam Aadmi Party alleging that the chief minister was manhandled during the “pre-planned” protest. The activists led by Delhi BJP Mahila Morcha president Kamaljeet Sehrawat and party spokesman Read More

Star wrestler Sakshi Malik shied away from confirming reports of marriage to fellow wrestler Satyawart Kadian, who won a silver medal at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the 97 kg freestyle category and a bronze at the Asian Championships, choosing to only dwell on her bronze medal win at the Rio Olympics. The 24 year old prefers that her Read More

In comments that may not go down well with the establishment back home, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale was on Tuesday quoted by a leading newspaper as saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking forward to visiting Islamabad for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit. The remarks coming in the midst of a new chill Read More