Day: July 4, 2019

Govt tightens rules for social media, OTT platforms

Sitting while watching TV linked to higher risk of heart attack: Study

3:00 pm July 4, 2019

New York: Sitting for longer hours at work may not be as bad for the heart as sitting while watching television, a study claims. The study, led by researchers at Columbia University in the US, found that leisure-time sitting (while watching TV) was associated with a greater risk of heart disease and death. The research, […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

New Zealand slams Google over murder case gaffe

2:54 pm July 4, 2019

Wellington: Google was accused of “giving the middle finger” by New Zealand’s Justice Minister Thursday, after the US tech giant refused to tighten publication standards after breaching court suppression orders in a high-profile murder case. A Google news email that went out to the general public named the accused killer of Briton Grace Millane in December, despite […]

NRI techie dies during adventure sport at resort in Telangana

2:48 pm July 4, 2019

Hyderabad: A45 year-old NRI software engineer died after the All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) he was riding overturned and fell on him during an adventure sport at a resort in Vikarabad district, police said Thursday. The accident occurred on Monday at around 11.30 am when Arvind K P, director of a software firm “veered” the ATV to […]

Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

Erdogan says US refusal to deliver F-35 jets would be ‘robbery’

2:40 pm July 4, 2019

Ankara: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would be “robbery” for the United States to deny Turkey the F-35 fighter jets it has bought, according to comments published on Thursday. Turkey-US ties are under serious strain over Ankara’s purchase of the Russian S-400 air defence system, which is due for delivery in the coming days. […]

Priyanka attacks Modi on lack of empathy for Assam

Respect for Rahul’s decision, few have the courage to do so: Priyanka on Cong chief’s resignation

2:20 pm July 4, 2019

New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said she respected her brother Rahul Gandhi’s decision to step down as the party president and lauded his “courage” to do so. Gandhi had posted his resignation letter on microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday. Priyanka retweeted her brother’s letter with a message. In the four-page […]