New Delhi: With content and video consumption set to grow with 4G, over 18.2 million 4G devices were shipped in the second quarter of 2016 as against 15.4 million in the first quarter this year, market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR) said on Friday. Of the 4G devices shipped, 97.8 per cent were smartphones followed by data cards at 1.6 Read More

I’m a huge fan of the slip dress—just ask anyone at the InStyle HQ. Does this make me Kate Moss, circa 1990? (Just humor me and say, yes.) I’ve championed the greatness that is the slip dress long before its recent runway takeover, where we saw it in every fabrication, color, and pattern imaginable, and styled with just about everything. Obviously, I was into Read More

German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings. The spokesman declined to provide further details. German attorney Chan-jo Jun had filed a complaint with prosecutors in the Bavarian Read More

It’s the festive season in India and e-retailers are more ready than anyone else to enjoy it. After Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal it’s Xiaomi’s turn to cash in on India’s biggest festival Diwali. Xiaomi is holding a ‘Diwali with Mi’ festival on its official India website and the smartphone app. The sale will start at 10AM every day from Oct Read More

Yahoo on Thursday said that state-sponsored hackers stole data from at least 500 million accounts in late 2014. The hack is possibly the biggest data breach ever reported at an email provider. According to Yahoo, hackers may have stolen “names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers”. Read More

“My metabolism just isn’t what it used to be.” We’ve all said it before – usually as we lament the fact that if we even thought about eating like we did back in high school, ourbellies would jiggle for a week. But how much does your metabolism really slow over the years? And is it enough to explain why you’re Read More

Benchmark shares indices extended gains in late morning trade led by index heavyweight Reliance Industries while banks firmed up on hopes that the Reserve Bank of India may ease key policy rates at its meeting early next month. At 12pm, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 337 points at 28,750 and the Nifty50 gained 96 points at 8,839. In the Read More

More than 200 people were injured in clashes between stone pelters and security forces in Kashmir on Sunday, on a day an all-party parliamentary delegation was in Srinagar to assess the ground situation in the valley where normal life remained paralysed for 58th consecutive day. There was no curfew in the valley except some areas of Srinagar falling under the Read More

The Supreme Court on Monday quashed criminal proceedings against cricketer MS Dhoni for an allegedly portrayal as Lord Vishnu on a magazine cover page. In January 2016, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was issued a non-bailable arrest warrant by Anantapur Court for being shown as Lord Vishnu on the cover of Business Todaymagazine in April 2013. The complaint had been filed by Read More

More than 200 people were injured in clashes between stone pelters and security forces in Kashmir on Sunday, on a day an all-party parliamentary delegation was in Srinagar to assess the ground situation in the valley where normal life remained paralysed for 58th consecutive day. There was no curfew in the valley except some areas of Srinagar falling under the Read More