Kuala Lumpur Rejuvenated after a month-long break, India’s top shuttlers, including PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth, will resume their quest for glory when the south-east Asia leg of BWF world tour begins with the $700,000 Malaysian Open on Tuesday. Srikanth and Sindhu had skipped the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in May to regain full fitness ahead of the hectic […]
Chennai Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand was 18 when he became a Grandmaster. Magnus Carlsen, the man who toppled Anand as world champion in 2013 and has been reigning since then, became a GM at 13 years and 4 months. So it’s clear India has a very special talent in R Praggnanandhaa, who on Saturday night became the […]
Mumbai A portion of a wall at an apartment complex in south Mumbai collapsed this morning following incessant rain, which led to a road caving in and taking down at least 20 parked cars. Dramatic visuals from the 32-storey Lloyds estate in Wadala’s Antop Hill show several cars buried or stuck in debris. Mumbai’s civic body […]
New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has launched the Redmi 6 Pro at an event in China. The Redmi 6 Pro features a 5.84-inch screen with 19:9 display. The phone also comes with an iPhone X styled notch display. Other key features of the phone include octa-core Snapdragon 625 SoC processor clocked up to 2GHz, […]
New Delhi: Wipro chief executive Abidali Z Neemuchwala saw his pay package growing over 34 percent to Rs 18.23 crore during FY2017-18 compared to the previous fiscal, as per the company’s annual report. Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Rishad A Premji’s compensation also grew by more than 250 percent to Rs 5.8 crore in the said […]
Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades today as the kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility. The much-trumpeted move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to modernise the conservative petrostate—but it […]
The southwest monsoon picked up momentum in Mumbai, bringing heavy showers that claimed three lives in the city and adjoining Thane, officials said on Monday. Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the night and continued on Monday morning, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus causing […]
Los Angeles Netflix sacked its chief spokesman Jonathan Friedland, he revealed on Friday, after he used the N-word twice in the space of a few days during meetings with staff. The head of communications announced his departure after being upbraided for a second time for using the racial slur, which is controversial for its ubiquity […]
President Donald Trump cited an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security as he acted Friday to maintain long-standing economic restrictions on North Korea, including the freezing of any assets in the United States. The official declaration, contained in a notice to Congress, came despite Trump’s assertion earlier this month that his historic summit […]