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  • David Bowie dominates Brit Awards 2017
    Rock star David Bowie, who died in January last year, was awarded Best British male and Best British Album for "Blackstar" at the Brit Awards 2017 here.   Collecting the Best Album prize, Bowie's son
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Rihanna to be honoured by Harvard University Scholars
    The singer will accept the Peter J. Gomes honour at the Boston, Massachusetts university next week (28Feb17). The Harvard Foundation’s director S. Allen Counter has revealed Rihanna will be feted for her char
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Chester Bennington quit Stone Temple Pilots for his kids
    The rocker spent two years with Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz as Scott Weiland's replacement in the band and now admits he had to leave in 2015 because touring with the band made his children unhappy.
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Nirvana songs get bluegrass treatment on inspired new album
    Had he not died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 5th, 1994, Kurt Cobain would have turned 50 years old on February 20th. And while the singer and songwriter explored the blues and folk music – mos
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Lee Min-ho wins top award for boosting Korea’s brand
    Actor Lee Min-ho was awarded the grand prize at the 2017 National Brand Awards held at the National Assembly Hall in Seoul on Wednesday.   “I traveled around the globe so many times over the past f
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Jimmy Kimmel may retire from late night show
    Jimmy Kimmel, who has been hosting late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" for 14 years, is considering retiring from it.   When his contract expires in the fall of 2019, Kimmel has thought about r
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Depression top cause of disability, strikes young and old - WHO
    GENEVA, February 23 (Reuters) - More than 4 percent of the world's population lives with depression, and women, youth and the elderly are the most prone to its disabling effects, the World Health Organisation (
    / 23rd February 2017
  • TMC supporters agitate in Tripura to seek CBI probe in chit fund scam
    Agartala, February 23 (IANS) Four policemen were injured as opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday organised a civil disobedience movement here to demand a probe by the CBI and ED into the activities o
    / 23rd February 2017
  • 61% voting in UP fourth phase polls
    New Delhi, February 23 (IANS) The fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls saw 61 per cent voting till 5 p.m., the Election Commission announced here on Thursday.   Deputy Election Commissioner V
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Google to help publishers find malicious comments on articles
    BRUSSELS, February 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organisations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites.
    / 23rd February 2017
  • North Korea raps old ally China after China's ban on coal
    SEOUL, February 23 (Reuters) - North Korea issued a rare reproach of China on Thursday saying its main diplomatic backer was "dancing to the tune" of the United States for halting North Korean coal imports beca
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Pope suggests "better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic"
    VATICAN CITY, February 23 (Reuters) - Pope Francis delivered another criticism of some members of his own Church on Thursday, suggesting it is better to be an atheist than one of "many" Catholics who he said le
    / 23rd February 2017
  • 'Weight loss drug may cut 80% risk of diabetes'
    London, February 23 (IANS) Injecting a particular weight loss drug in combination with diet and exercise may reduce risk of diabetes by 80 per cent in individuals with obesity and prediabetes, a study said.
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Them Shoes
    Lea   I told my man, my shoes they pinch. My man, with love he said to me Oh no they can’t, they don’t at all.   I told my man, my feet they say My shoes they pinch me bad a lot. My
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Woman, militant killed in Manipur gunfight
    Imphal, February 23 (IANS) A tribal wowman and a suspected militant were killed and the latter's accomplice was wounded in a fierce gunfight in Manipur on Thursday, police sources said.   The injured
    / 23rd February 2017
  • India seeks to crack down on C-section birth for profits
    "We have entered into an area, very sorry to say, in the last 20 years, where doctors care more about money than about patients' health"     NEW DELHI, February 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Malaysia may expel North Korean envoy over airport killing comments - source
    KUALA LUMPUR, February 23 (Reuters) - Malaysia is considering expelling North Korea's envoy to the Southeast Asian nation or shutting its embassy in Pyongyang, as tensions escalate over the killing of the estra
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Angelina Jolie considering acting in 'Maleficent 2'
    Los Angeles, February 23 (IANS) Actress-director Angelina Jolie is reportedly thinking of reprising her role as the vengeful fairy in Disneys "Maleficent 2".   Jolie, who was able to command $20 mill
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Fruit and vegetable-rich diet may lower lung disease risk
    London, February 23 (IANS) Consuming five or more daily servings of diet rich in fruit such as apples or pears and green leafy vegetables may significantly lower the risk of developing chronic lung disease in b
    / 23rd February 2017
  • Three soldiers, woman killed in Kashmir attack
    Srinagar, February 23 (IANS) Three soldiers and a woman were killed in a militant attack in a south Kashmir village on Thursday, police said.   Two officers, a Lt. Colonel and a Major, and three more
    / 23rd February 2017
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