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| Billion-dollar phone bill sent to French distillery The manager of a French distillery in the renowned Burgundy wine-making district was sent a sobering phone bill for 716,414,273 euros (1.02 billion dollars). 0 minutes ago |
| Anna Hazare fasts to fight corruption, hundreds join in support Anna Hazare fasts to fight corruption, hundreds join in support | Deccan Chronicle 0 minutes ago |
| Japan radioactivity could enter food chain Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer. 0 minutes ago |
| Japan suspends work at stricken n-plant Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility. 0 minutes ago |
| ICICI, HDFC Bank hike base rate, EMIs set to rise After deposit rates, it is now the turn of lending rates to go up. On Tuesday, a number of banks including ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Bank of Baroda revised their base rates upwards. HDFC Bank and ICICI have both raised their base rates by 0.25 percentage point. 0 minutes ago |
| Infosys-TVS merger! | Rohan Murthy weds Lakshmi The south Indian wedding of the century is in the offing! Rohan Murthy, the 28-year-old son of Infosys co-founder and Chief Mentor N. R. Narayana Murthy, got engaged to Lakshmi, daughter of TVS Motor Co-chairman Venu Srinivasan on Friday in Chennai. 0 minutes ago |
| 'Peepli Live' named Best First Feature Film at Durban film festival Aamir Khan's much talked about home production 'Peepli Live' has been named the Best First Feature Film at the recently concluded 31st Durban International Film Festival. Helmed and written by Anusha Rizvi in her first directorial venture, the film is a satire on the farmers' suicides and subsequent media and political response in India. 0 minutes ago |
| Computer screens retarding kids’ brains A psychologist has warned that computer screens are bad for the brains of young children. Dr Aric Sigman, an American-born British psychologist warns against computer usage, especially by any children under 9. 0 minutes ago |
| Murky side of mineral water Surendra Kumar, a resident of posh Banjara Hills decided not to compromise on his family’s health, eschewing the unreliable, possibly unhygienic water supplied through municipal taps for packaged drinking water. 0 minutes ago |
| TRS wins two seats, leads in four others TRS has retained two Assembly constituencies and was leading in four others among the 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where bypolls were held on July 27. 0 minutes ago |
| Ideal man, woman now weigh 60, 55 kg The ideal Indian man is now five kg heavier and the ideal woman weighs 10 kg more than their ancestors in the pre-Independence era. The Centre has fixed the weight of the Indian “reference man” at 60 kg and the Indian “reference woman” at 55 kg. 0 minutes ago |
| Jagan ends one leg of tour, talks about rivals The Kadapa MP, Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Thursday concluded his 18-day Odarpu yatra in East Godavari district. While recalling the contribution of his father, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, Mr Jagan said, “It is not how long one lives, but it is how he lives.” 0 minutes ago |
| Telangana : Congress, TD eye 3 seats, TRS sure of 12 The ruling Congress and the opposition Telugu Desam are confident of snatching away at least three seats — Nizamabad Urban, Sirpur and Mancherial — from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti-BJP alliance in the by-elections to the 12 Assembly constituencies held on Tuesday. 0 minutes ago |
| Mobiles have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handle The average mobile phone carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men's toilet, tests have revealed. One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria that it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset. 0 minutes ago |
| iPhone voted ‘Coolest Thing on the Planet’ A poll of 3,000 Brits saw the iPhone just ahead of its maker Apple, which was at the second place. The Internet was the third coolest thing according to the Costa Coffee study. 0 minutes ago |
| Trisha to star with Prateik While Gautam Menon’s Khakha Khakha is all set to be remade by some other director, Gautam himself is all set to remake his Tamil film Vinaaithandi Varuvaaya in Hindi and has signed Khatta Meetha fame actress Trisha in the lead role. Prateik will be playing the male lead. 0 minutes ago |
| Underage by 6 days, girl loses MBBS Chandu Revathi, daughter of Ch. Janar-dhana Chandra Sekhar, who ranked 40th in Eamcet was denied admission in MBBS as she was underage by just six days. 0 minutes ago |
| Sehwag retains No.1 spot in ICC Test rankings India may have flopped in the opening cricket Test against Sri Lanka but opener Virender Sehwag held on to the number one spot, while Sachin Tendulkar gained a place to be seventh in the latest ICC rankings for batsmen issued today. 0 minutes ago |
| Now, you can’t have more than 5,000 friends on Facebook ccording to Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin, only “a fraction of a percent” of the site’s 400 million global users has topped the limit, making the few that do have 5,000 pals a new, albeit strange, sort of elite. 0 minutes ago |
| Tollywood stars caught on cocaine trip Investigations revealed that they were supplying drugs to elite customers including an MPs son, a film star, a music director, sons of prominent actors, upcoming actresses apart from youngsters of affluent families. 0 minutes ago |
| Man blinds roommate in US, says 'I hate Indian people' In a bizarre hate-crime, a man has gouged out his roommate's eyes in New York and threatened to kill him saying "I hate Indian people". 0 minutes ago |
| BlackBerry now touts Messenger to woo the young Facing a fierce onslaught from Apple's iPhone 4 and Google Android devices, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is pulling out all the stops to woo consumer and youth market. 0 minutes ago |
| Headley questioning reveals militant, official establishment link: NSA Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley's interrogation has pointed to links between official establishments and militants, which are growing "stronger", National Security Adviser, (NSA) Mr Shivshankar Menon, said on Tuesday. 0 minutes ago |
| Etisalat likely to pick up RCom stake for Rs 15k cr | Deccan Chronicle New Delhi, July 19: UAE-based telecom operator Etisalat is understood to have come close in buying a minority 26 per cent stake in Anil Ambani group firm RCom for over Rs 15,000 crore. 0 minutes ago |
| Santosh Trophy: Maharashtra, Karnataka to meet in prequarters Maharashtra and Karnataka finished atop their clusters Monday to settle for a last 16 clash in the 64th Santosh Trophy national soccer competition here. 0 minutes ago |
| Virgin space tourists to be launched by 2015 A Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Scotland could be launching tourists into space by 2015. Sir Richard Branson’s UK Space Agency has identified Lossiemouth as the ideal ocation from where a spaceflight would take off, reports dailymail.co.uk. 0 minutes ago |
| 3G, then 4G, usher in brave new world It was a brilliant coup in the world of communications technology: Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries can rightfully claim he will usher in a revolution in the way Indians communicate in the not too distant future. 0 minutes ago |