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Is tiny dragonfly world’s longest distance flier

Is tiny dragonfly world’s longest distance flier

A small dragonfly found in several countries, including India may be the animal world’s most prolific long...

4 March 2016 3:41 AM IST

Singers Lee Brice and Jessi Alexander perform at City Winery in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday.(Photo: AFP)

Remains of controversial Chinese emperor found

Archaeologists in east China have found the remains of a controversial Chinese emperor from a 2,000-year-old tomb who...

3 March 2016 7:01 AM IST

Anish Kapoor bags rights to ‘darkest black’

Award-winning Mumbai-born sculptor Anish Kapoor has bagged the exclusive rights to a pigment described as the darkest...

3 March 2016 5:59 AM IST

Astronaut sets US record with 340 days in space

Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly of Nasa rests in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he...

3 March 2016 5:51 AM IST

Unofficial Hollywood ambassador Gregg Donovan places flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of actor George Kennedy—AFP

Cool Hand Luke star George Kennedy dead

George Kennedy, the Oscar-winning star of Cool Hand Luke and the Naked Gun comedy movies, has died at the age of 91, his...

2 March 2016 1:43 AM IST

Preity and Gene plan to have a big, fat Indian wedding once they are back in the country in April.

Preity weds American boyfriend in Los Angeles

Actress Preity Zinta has tied the knot with her American boyfriend Gene Goodenough in a private ceremony in Los Angeles.

2 March 2016 1:40 AM IST

Clergy victims doubt Spotlight win will bring change

Clergy victims doubt Spotlight win will bring change

Victims of clergy sexual abuse are revelling in the Oscar won by Spotlight — the story of the Boston Globe’s...

2 March 2016 1:38 AM IST

Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Chris Rock mocks lack of diversity

Oscars host Chris Rock hit early and hard on Sunday on a race row overshadowing Hollywood’s biggest night,...

1 March 2016 6:12 AM IST

Priyanka Chopra at the rehearsals for the 88th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

The Revenant leads charge at ‘whitewashed’ Oscars

Hollywood is set to hit the Oscars red carpet on Sunday for its annual show of glitz and pageantry honouring...

29 Feb 2016 3:19 AM IST

Major Jurassic fossil site found in Argentina

Major Jurassic fossil site found in Argentina

Palaeontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was...

29 Feb 2016 3:14 AM IST

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan pose for photographers at the UK Premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey (Photo: AP)

50 Shades tops Razzies, named worst picture

The erotic box office hit Fifty Shades of Grey led the pack on Saturday for the annual Razzie Awards,...

29 Feb 2016 3:10 AM IST

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36 per cent rise in number of male smokers in India since 1998: Study

The number of men smoking tobacco in India rose by more than one-thirds to 108 million in 17 years, according to an...

28 Feb 2016 6:45 AM IST