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Twitter will permanently ban impersonators: Elon Musk

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted that the microblogging site will permanently suspend any account that impersonates another. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters "Going......

Nirmala Sitharaman in Forbes list of 100 most powerful women

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, United States Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HCL Enterprise CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra have been named among the......

Why are these soldiers drinking a cobra's blood?

At the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, you can find international marines seeking out water in unlikely places, eating spider eggs, and even drinking cobra blood. Take a look! All photographs:......

On sale: Cheap Chinese short-range missile

China plans to sell to foreign countries its new short-range air-to-surface missile which can be mounted on drones and is designed for anti-terrorism operations. The China Academy of Aerospace......

Trump meets with top journos; calls them 'deceitful liars'

United States President-elect Donald Trump has lashed out at top electronic media executives and journalists, terming them ‘dishonest’ and 'deceitful liars' after he invited them for a......

Adani in another mess! Wiki says 'sockpuppets' created puffery about him

For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral......

It's clear, regulatory woes can't kill online gaming in India

With the rise of online gaming, more so post-Covid, newer games and genres have appeared in the business and $794 mn investments have already been pumped into the Indian gaming industry in 2021,......

How Information revolution differs from Industrial Revolution

There is mounting evidence that the Information Revolution may mean the end of large-scale vertically integrated businesses whose guiding principle, “economies of scale”, was the......

Power minister woos investors in US; meets PE giants Blackstone, Warburg

Piyush Goyal expressed hope that given the prediction of a good monsoon this year, India may see double digit growth by end of this financial year. Wooing global investors, including private......

Many air pockets in India Inc's global flight

Big-ticket buyouts at the peak of valuation cycle failed to live up to the hype; smaller deals did betterIf Indian chief executives were asked to name one of their decisions in the past 15 years......

Golden Globes 2020: Renee Zellweger wins

The 77th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There were a few surprises and some expected nods. This year's Carol Burnett Award was presented to Ellen DeGeneres and the honorary Cecil B......

Shah Rukh Khan: Prayers with all in Nepal

A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:A 7.9 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks hit Nepal and India over the weekend. Several Bollywood stars turned to Twitter to......

Anil Kapoor to star in Family Guy

Anil Kapoor has been roped in for a guest appearance in Seth McFarlane-created hit American shot Family Guy.The 58-year-old Bollywood veteran, who we last saw in the Hindi adaptation of......

PIX: Family, friends bid Joan Rivers goodbye

The veteran comedienne passed away at the age of 81 on September 4.Several of Joan Rivers' family members and friends from the film and television industry turned up to bid her final farewell in......

Review: Solid actors play it silly in Men In Black 3

There's something oddly comforting about watching three great actors so earnestly embrace this schlocky cinema from a simpler, cheesier time in Men In Black 3, writes Raja Sen.That the Men In Black......

NBA roundup: Warriors beat Rockets to improve to 8-1

IMAGE: Golden State Warriors guard Jordan Poole (3) drives to the net against Houston Rockets center Daniel Theis (27) during the second quarter of their NBA match at Chase Center in San......

PIX: Brentford stun Arsenal for dream Premier League start

IMAGE: Sergi Canos celebrates scoring Brentford's first goal in the Premier League match against Arsenal, at Brentford Community Stadium, London, on Friday. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters The......

SA's Maharaj takes hat-trick to seal WI series

IMAGE: South Africa's Keshav Maharaj hugs captain Dean Elgar after taking a hat-trick. Maharaj picked the 7th Test fifer of his career as he took the Proteas to victory over the West Indies on......

FA Cup PIX: Saints hold Spurs with late leveller

A summary of Saturday's matches in the FA Cup. IMAGE: Sofiane Boufal scores the equaliser for Southampton during Saturday's FA Cup Fourth Round match against Tottenham Hotspur, at St Mary's......

Sports Shorts: Sindhu, Saina set up summit clash at Senior Nationals

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: Saina Nehwal plays against Neha Pandit in the women’s singles match at the 83rd Senior National Badminton Championship in......

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