Instagram has come a long way since its early days. Initially started as a social network where people share personal moments in the form of pictures with their friends, Instagram eventually expanded into video, instant messages, and stories – which was nothing but a blatant rip-off of Snapchat’s popular disappearing stories feature. Over the last couple of years, Instagram has catered to a lot of content creators and celebrities to […]

Following the runaway success of Bright, Netflix flexes its sci-fi blockbuster muscle once again with How It Ends. How It Ends seems to be a pretty cookie-cutter apocalypse story: a mysterious event, chaos ensues, people break into murderous factions. But it does have the benefit of Forest Whitaker with a gun. It’s always great to see the Oscar winner shed his prestigious image and play the gun-toting badass, especially when […]

California health officials reported Friday that 374 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in 2017, the first full year after a law made the option legal. The California Department of Public Health said 577 people received aid-in-dying drugs last year, but not everyone used them. The law allows adults to obtain a prescription for life-ending drugs if a doctor has determined they have six months or less […]

Power minister RK Singh said on Friday that the government will consider making 24 degrees celsius as mandatory default setting for air conditioners within a few months. At a meeting with the minister, AC makers were also advised to have labelling indicating the optimum temperature setting for the benefits of consumers both from financial and their health points of view, the power ministry said in a statement. The temperatures settings […]

Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world’s highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the well-trodden route to the summit of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) peak. “It is disgusting, an eyesore,” Pemba Dorje Sherpa, who has summited Everest 18 times, told […]

Shah Rukh Khan’s experiments with his roles continue. After films like Ra.One and FAN, King Khan’s upcoming film Zero has him playing the role of a vertically challenged man. The teaser of this Aanand L Rai directorial dropped in an unexpected manner on Thursday, leaving fans excited. The teaser is loaded with a lot of fun banter between SRK and Salman Khan, who is making a guest appearance in Zero. […]

The auspicious festival of Eid-ul-Fitr or Eid-Al-Fitr is widely celebrated by Muslims around the globe. The festival marks the end of Ramadan and is celebrated by breaking the 30-day long fast with a grand celebration. Eid-ul-Fitr is the first and only day in the month of Shawwal during which Muslims are not permitted to fast. The celebrations of the festival depend purely upon the sighting of the moon. There is […]

Eminent film and theatre personality Girish Karnad and several litterateurs and rationalists were on the hit list of those suspected of killing journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, officials said today. Besides Karnad, a recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the highest honour in literature, politician-litterateur B T Lalitha Naik, pontiff Veerabhadra Channamalla Swamy of Nidumamidi Mutt and rationalist C S Dwarakanath also figured in the list, sources in the SIT probing the Lankesh […]

All eyes are on Sridevi’s daughter, Janhvi Kapoor’s debut film, in which she stars opposite Ishaan Khatter, Shahid Kapoor’s brother. Dhadak, directed by Shashank Khaitan marks Bollywood debut of Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter. The trailer features Ishaan as Madhur and Janhvi as Patri and explores their love story in a casteist society. Unlike the original Marathi film Sairat, Dhadak is set in Rajasthan. As expected, there are sequences featuring […]

Kamal plays the lead role of a RAW agent in the film. The film, which has been delayed over multiple reasons for the past few years, is a sequel to the 2013 film Vishwaroopam. ‘Vishwaroopam 2’ takes the story forward from where the first part ended. Produced by Raaj Kamal Films International, the film stars Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Shekhar Kapur, Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat and Waheeda Rehman […]