Washington: The board of web pioneer Yahoo has reportedly approved a deal to buy popular blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, according to various media reports. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO David Karp were reported to be in talks last week. On Sunday, the board approved the deal, the Wall Street [...]
Washington: Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox console Tuesday that represents a major upgrade on the US-market-leading Xbox 360 model. The president of the IT giant’s Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, revealed the hi-tech Xbox One entertainment and gaming console during an event at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus. The Xbox One was presented as an all-in-one [...]
Mumbai: Actress Sherlyn Chopra grabbed the paparazzi’s attention by grooving at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival wearing a white and gold Indian lehenga choli. She is there to promote her movie “Kamasutra 3D” with the team. The film’s director Rupesh Paul said Sherlyn was “very excited and she grooved for the paparazzi without any [...]
Agartala: A consumer court in Tripura has ordered Cadbury India to pay a compensation of Rs.30,000 to a complainant who found an iron pin inside a chocolate bar made by the company. But the company said it disagreed with the findings of the consumer court and would file an appeal against the order in the [...]
Washington: Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado – said to be as wide as 22 football fields – flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children. Even as officials revised the death toll down [...]
Washington: India has sought from the US access to Pakistani-American 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both found guilty of supporting Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde during a meeting with US Attorney General Eric Holder here Tuesday is reported to have raised [...]
Washington: At least 91 people were killed, 20 of them children, as a massive tornado ripped through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs in the US, flattening homes and businesses and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary schools. Emergency crews and volunteers worked through the early morning hours Tuesday in a frantic search [...]
Washington/Bangalore: Indian tech honcho Phaneesh Murthy was Tuesday sacked as chief executive of US-based software services company iGate Corporation “for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate”, over a decade after he was forced to quit Indian IT bellwether Infosys on similar charges of sexual misconduct. “The decision to terminate the employment of president and [...]
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor oozed oomph in a voluminous white floral gown by Italian luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana on day two of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. The actress flaunted a D&G gown at the premiere of “Jeune & Jolie” after making India-inspired statements in apparel by Anamika Khanna and Shehla [...]
By Nauman Farooq If you like cars and are into driving them properly on a closed circuit, I have found the perfect experience for you. ExoticCarTours.ca out of Oakville, ON., have been offering many types of supercar driving adventures for the last few years, but this year they have turned things up a few notches, [...]
