Opposition MLAs on Thursday, staged a walk-out from the Goa Legislative Assembly after Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar questioned their intention behind raising the issue of casinos. “I know why questions about casinos are raised on the floor of the house. I know who have dealings with the casinos and who have business relationships with them,” Parsekar said after the Opposition Read More

Composer: AR Rahman Lyrics: Javed Akhtar The mathematics of music — coming out of a collaboration between filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar and composer AR Rahman — has mostly resulted in inventive yet familiar soundscapes. Tunes of films such as Swades, Lagaan, even Jodha Akbar, had a heartening indifference towards the limitations of musical genres, and yet they stuck to the blueprint Read More

A day after a local district court directed police to register an FIR against Mohammad Akhlaq and six others, they were booked under sections of prevention of cow slaughter act and animal cruelty act at Jharcha police station Friday. Akhlaq, 50, was beaten to death in Dadri’s Bisara village on September 28 last year, following allegations of cow slaughter and Read More

A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people today in what President Francois Hollande called a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in Read More

Power-and-blood fantasy saga “Game of Thrones” ruled the Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday with a leading 23 bids, including best drama, while a real-life epic of murder and celebrity, “The People v OJ Simpson,” was close behind with 22 nods. “Game of Thrones” gets the chance to win its second top Emmy, while “Veep,” last year’s top comedy winner, also will get another shot at holding Read More

All India Bakchod (AIB) is back with yet another AIB take on the recent Pokémon Go phenomenon that has gripped the world. Like everyone else, the funny men of AIB has been bitten by the Pokémon Go bug too. And they have a rather hilarious take on the frenzy, which has people absolutely hooked onto the augmented-reality mobile game. Here’s Read More

Men who are overweight or obese are nearly three times more at the risk of premature death than women, says a study. The findings showed that the premature deaths, defined as those at ages 35-69 years, would be 29.5 per cent and 14.6 per cent for moderately obese men and women respectively. This corresponds to an absolute increase of 10.5 Read More

Cycling, often marked as a recreational activity, can significantly reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes (T2D), if used as a means of transport to work daily, suggests a research. The findings showed that people who took up habitual cycling were at 20 per cent lower risk for T2D than non-cyclists. “Because cycling can be included in everyday activities, Read More

Moments after David Cameron resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he changed his Twitter bio. The updated profile read, ‘former prime minister and MP for Whitney’. Cameron who submitted his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace is the youngest prime minister to leave office since the Earl of Roseberry in 1895. David Cameron who handed his Read More

As body mass index increases, so does the growth and spread of the blood cancer multiple myeloma, which accounts for about 10 percent of all blood cancers in patients, a study warns. “Once a person with cancer is out of the normal weight category, their BMI is contributing to multiple myeloma growth and progression,” said lead study author Katie DeCicco-Skinner, Read More