- Technology
Facebook worried as TikTok set to eclipse Twitter, Snapchat ad share
San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat…
- World
Musk is now $100 billion richer than Jeff Bezos
San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is continuing to grow his status as the world’s richest man as his net worth is skyrocketing over the rest of the top earners…
- Technology
YouTube ends test for quickly enabling PiP on iOS
San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube, which officially rolled out Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to the iOS app last June, has reportedly now ended the test for iPhone and iPad users. The experiment has disappeared from…
- Technology
New cheap, smartphone tech to detect dengue developed
London: An international team of researchers has developed new smartphone-powered tests for dengue fever that has significantly improved rates over lateral flow testing kits. The new diagnostic test, described in the journal…
- Technology
Twitter likely reverts change that turned embeds of deleted tweets into blank boxes
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter reportedly confirmed that it has reversed a change that turned the appearance of deleted tweets embedded on websites outside of the platform. According to The Verge, instead…
- Telangana
Thousands participate in celestial wedding at Bhadrachalam temple
Hyderabad: Thousands of devotees participated the celestial wedding (Sitarama Kalyanam) at Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy temple in Bhadrachalam town of Telangana on the occasion of Ram Navami on Sunday. After gap of two…
- World
Islamabad HC hears plea to put Imran, ex-ministers on Exit Control List
Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will on Monday hear an application requesting for placing the names of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his ministers on the Exit Control List (ECL)…
- Top Stories
Union govt policies are threat to national food security system: Kavitha
New Delhi: Alleging that Centre’s paddy procurement is “discriminatory”, TRS leader K Kavitha on Sunday said that the Union government’s policies are threat to national food security system. Ahead of the Telangana…
- Andhra Pradesh
Homes in darkness, industries hit as Andhra faces severe power crunch
Amaravati: Homes in darkness, patients suffering in government hospitals and industries coming to a grinding halt in Andhra Pradesh show the severity of the power crisis gripping the state. An incident in…
- World
Not just debt, neighbours also saddled with defective Chinese hardware
New Delhi: China’s strategic military sales to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand has raised security concerns in the Indian Ocean Region. China aims to be a key defence exporter to many…
- Entertainment
‘Thar’ starring Anil Kapoor, Harsh Varrdhan to release on May 6
Mumbai: Noir film ‘Thar’, which stars Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Satish Kaushik and Anil Kapoor in lead roles, is all set to premiere on the OTT on May 6. The…
- Business
Strong dollar dents India’s foreign reserves, forex down by over $11 bn
Mumbai: Global currency fluctuations, due to a rise in US dollar strength, depleted India’s foreign reserve by over $11.173 billion during the week that ended on April 1. The foreign currency assets…
- Technology
Is Twitter dying as Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift not tweeting: Musk
New Delhi: Elon Musk, who is now on the board of Twitter after acquiring 9.2 per cent stake in it for nearly $3 billion, took a fresh dig at the Parag Agrawal-led…
- Automobile
Tesla customer waiting for Model X refund for over 2 years
San Francisco: Taking advantage of Tesla’s seven-day, no-questions-asked return policy at the time, a customer who returned his Tesla Model X in early 2020, is still making payments on a $116,000 vehicle…
- Middle East
Iran blacklists 24 US individuals for ‘illicit’ activities
Tehran: Iran announced Saturday the sanction of another 24 US officials and individuals for “involvement in terrorist and anti-human rights activities”, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s website. The ministry said in a…
