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8 adventurous ways to explore Africa

8 adventurous ways to explore Africa

Africa, a popular tourist destination, offers a number of interesting things to keep visitors entertained. Following are 8 adventurous ways to explore Africa. Hitchhike the south  For any kind of long-term travel in Southern Africa (say, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa), it’s best to rent a car. Or, more realistically, some sort of […]

Ganesha Chaturthi 2017: prominent Ganesha temples to seal the festival for you!

Ganesha Chaturthi 2017: prominent Ganesha temples to seal the festival for you!

Those sacred abodes of Lord Ganesha, enshrining self-manifested idols, characterised by holiness, exist from remote times. The holy scriptures of Hinduism state that as soon as one enters these temples, he is freed from several sins. Having easy access to such blessed shrines, why won’t you seek the grace of Lord Ganesha, the believed remover […]

How To Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)

How To Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)

BMI, or body mass index, is one of the most reasonable indicators of body fat, for both adults and children. The reason being- it is easy to calculate, non-invasive, simple, and inexpensive. It is essentially a simple mathematical formula that is used to measure the ‘fatness’, based on your height and weight. It is one […]

Ayaan to be arrested in Star Plus’ Love Ka Hai Intezaar?

Ayaan to be arrested in Star Plus’ Love Ka Hai Intezaar?

  Alchemy Films’ popular daily Love Ka Hai Intezaar’s interesting twists and turns never fail to keep the audience hooked to its episodes. The popular daily which airs on Star Plus will be coming up with another interesting twist wherein Ayaan (Mohit Sehgal) will be in trouble. Ardent viewers would already know that Kamini (Sanjeeda Sheikh) who hates men had asked Mohini (Preetika Rao) […]

India vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI: MS Dhoni’s Gesture For Virat Kohli That Most Failed To Notice

India vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI: MS Dhoni’s Gesture For Virat Kohli That Most Failed To Notice

Virat Kohli scored his second century of the series to steer India home to a six-wicket win in the fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka on Sunday. The Indian captain and Kedar Jadhav stitched together a 108-run stand for the fourth wicket to put the hosts on the mat. Jadhav, however, failed to bat […]

A Gentleman movie review: Sidharth Malhotra isn’t convincing in his ‘risky’ avatar

A Gentleman movie review: Sidharth Malhotra isn’t convincing in his ‘risky’ avatar

A Gentleman star cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez, Darshan Kumar, Hussain Dalal, Rajit Kapur, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Suniel Shetty A Gentleman director: Krishna DK, Raj Nidimoru A Gentleman rating: 2 stars This latest outing by Raj and DK is a spy spoof cum thriller cum love story, and while the going is good, it’s not bad. But you have to […]

Baadshaho movie review: This Ajay Devgn and Esha Gupta film is old wine, in a not very new bottle

Baadshaho movie review: This Ajay Devgn and Esha Gupta film is old wine, in a not very new bottle

Baadshaho star cast: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Ileana D’Cruz, Esha Gupta, Sanjay Mishra, Vidyut Jammwal Baadshaho director: Milan Luthria Baadshaho rating: 2 stars Don’t get fooled by the ‘set during the backdrop of the Emergency’ thread in Baadshaho. That and few other elements are just window dressing in Milan Luthria’s cops-and-robbers tale, which plays out in one his favourite […]

Shubh Mangal Saavdhan movie review: The Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar film suffers from a sagging climax

Shubh Mangal Saavdhan movie review: The Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar film suffers from a sagging climax

Shubh Mangal Saavdhan star cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Seema Pahwa, Brijendra Kala Shubh Mangal Saavdhan director: RS Prasanna Shubh Mangal Saavdhan rating: 2.5 stars When you want to get it on, and you can’t get it up, what do you do? A Bollywood mainstream movie asking this kind of tricky question deserves serious props, even if it isn’t […]

Priyanka Chopra visits Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu and the photos are no less than a family portrait

Priyanka Chopra visits Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu and the photos are no less than a family portrait

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar was paid a visit by Priyanka Chopra. The Quantico star spent a whole evening with the actor and his wife Saira Banu. The actor, known for films like Mughal-e-Azam, Naya Daur, and Devdas had been in ill-health last month and most likely this is the reason that prompted Piggy Chops’ visit. A tweet from […]

Flaws in India’s economic growth model are becoming clear

Flaws in India’s economic growth model are becoming clear

India has a way of confounding expectations. Analysts agreed that, months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ill-fated decision to withdraw 86% of currency from circulation overnight, growth would bounce back. Economists polled by Bloomberg expected growth in the April to June quarter to be 6.5%; other estimates were even higher. So when the government’s official statisticians released […]

ONGC to bid for Israel oil and gas exploration blocks: Oil Minister

ONGC to bid for Israel oil and gas exploration blocks: Oil Minister

NEW DELHI/JERUSALEM: State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans to bid for Israeli offshore oil-and-gas exploration blocks, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan has told news agency Reuters. This is slated to be the first major deal between the two countries since a groundbreaking trip by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July. India and Israel have deep defence ties but the Modi […]

Close to 8,000 Indian-Americans to be hit as Trump decides to end DACA immigration programme

Close to 8,000 Indian-Americans to be hit as Trump decides to end DACA immigration programme

US president Donald Trump is reported to be planing to end a popular and controversial Obama-era regulation that protected from deportation undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children and that has benefitted an estimated 800,000 people of whom close to 8,000 are from India. The announcement, which is likely on Tuesday, could include […]

Second Indian student rescued from lake in Hurricane Harvey-hit Texas dies

Second Indian student rescued from lake in Hurricane Harvey-hit Texas dies

HOUSTON: A 25-year-old Indian student has died here, days after she was rescued along with another Indian man from a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc. Shalini Singh, a student pursuing Masters degree in public health from the Texas A&M University, was rescued from the Lake Bryan along with another Indian student Nikhil […]

Indian-Americans help in massive evacuation, rescue operations during ‘Harvey’

Indian-Americans help in massive evacuation, rescue operations during ‘Harvey’

HOUSTON: The Indian-American community in Texas is helping hundreds of people affected by Hurricane Harvey, one of the most destructive storms in American history, by distributing fresh food, medical and essential needs. Massive evacuation and rescue operations continue to take place in Texas and fund raising has begun for disaster relief operations to help victims of Harvey. Click […]

Beijing may tell Pak to crack down on LeT, JeM: Top Chinese experts

Beijing may tell Pak to crack down on LeT, JeM: Top Chinese experts

BEIJING: China is likely to ask Pakistan to crack down on two terror groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, named in the BRICS declaration, two experts associated with Chinese government think tanks told TOI on Monday. “From the declaration, you can say there is a visible change in China’s stand on this matter,” said Hu Shishang, director of the Institute […]

PM Modi praises China role, seeks BRICS rating agency

PM Modi praises China role, seeks BRICS rating agency

Underlining the “common objective of improving business and investment cooperation”, Prime Minister Narendra ModiMonday called for finalisation at the earliest of a BRICS rating agency and said “I am happy to note that China has taken forward the people-to-people thrust of our exchanges from last year” because “such inter-mingling will consolidate our links and deepen our […]

Cabinet reshuffle: Nirmala Sitharaman gets Defence, Piyush Goyal Rail, Dharmendra Pradhan Skills

Cabinet reshuffle: Nirmala Sitharaman gets Defence, Piyush Goyal Rail, Dharmendra Pradhan Skills

Giving A major fillip to the BJP’s third generation of leaders since the party was founded by A B Vajpayee and L K Advani in 1980, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday rolled out his third Cabinet reshuffle by naming Nirmala Sitharaman as Defence Minister, assigning the politically crucial Railways portfolio to Piyush Goyal and giving additional charge […]