Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday joined the nation in lauding ace Indian shuttler P.V Sindhu who reached the semi-finals of the women’s singles event at the Rio Olympics. “#PVSindhu .. you played a super game .. CONGRATULATIONS !! More glory for you ..you made us all very proud ! Beat No 2 at #Rio2016,” he said in a tweet. Read More

Remember how in Harry Potter, Voldemort uses the Dark Mark to summon his Death Eaters? In our Muggle world, magic is still a distant dream, but imagine if you had wearables like tattoos on your skin, and you could use them to control your smartphone? PhD students at the Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Labs in association with Microsoft Read More

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second day in a speech to party workers in Lucknow. The Congress vice-president criticised PM Modi for promising bullet trains, saying the “tickets will be not less than Rs 15,000”. “Only Modi ji and his suit-boot friends will travel in it,” he said. Accusing PM Modi of failing Read More

I once respected and admired your movement, born as it was in those heady days of Jantar Mantar. It was a true citizens’ movement, led by the newly empowered, educated, middle class that was fed up of a system reeking of entitlement and corruption. I cheered on Anna Hazare, and I too had goosebumps at the youth, the energy and Read More

Writer Amitav Ghosh will be the guest at The Express Adda in New Delhi on Saturday. The 60-year-old, who has authored notable novels such as The Shadow Lines (1988), The Hungry Tide (2004) and, most recently, The Ibis Trilogy, recently published his new work, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The book marks Ghosh’s return to non-fiction and Read More

The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the trial court order summoning liquor baron Vijay Mallya as an accused in several cheque-bouncing cases filed against him by Delhi airport operator DIAL, saying being incharge of the company he was “equally liable to be prosecuted”. Justice P S Teji refused to quash the summons issued to Mallya and said “the trial court Read More

Irked over a remark by Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in Rajya Sabha on July 29, Opposition members including those from Congress stormed into the Well demanding an apology from him, leading to a near washout of the crucial Zero Hour. Trouble began when Naqvi, replying to Anand Sharma’s (Congress) remark that there was “frustration among youth” due lack of Read More

Once you buy precious jewellery, it’s essential to store your expensive pieces in the right manner to avoid losing the sheen of the metal. Remove your jewellery while doing household chores like cooking, cleaning and dish washing, says an expert. Hardik Kapoor, founder of online store Jewelsify, shares some tips to help you protect your ornaments: Diamond jewellery: Jewellery should Read More

Recently, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal released a video on YouTube and shared it on his social media wherein he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so frustrated, he may get him killed. As it is, he is very vocal about his opinion on Modi and seems to blame him for everything that goes wrong with the Delhi government. Therefore, Read More

Coverage of Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in India should be doubled by 2020 from the current 45 per cent by addressing the administrative and logistic issues to safeguard the young against the deadly disease, according to the World Health Organisation. WHO representative to India, Henk Bekedam, described “the administration of Hepatitis B dose within 24 hours of birth as Read More