Washington: Apple Inc will refund consumers at least$32.5 million to settle a longstanding complaint that the technology company billed U.S. consumers for charges incurred by children through mobile apps without their parents’ consent. Under the terms of the settlement, announced on Wednesday read more...

Hyderabad: Hyderabad is catching up with other major cities in terms of providing the startup ecosystem, despite having no major acquisition to its credit, says Ramesh Loganathan, MD and vice-president, products, Progress Software India. “People used to aspire for a good job and title. But that is read more...

New Delhi: A “fitter” and “healthier” M.S. Dhoni on Monday put rest to all speculations about retiring from any of the formats, saying that it would be unfair to put the burden of captaincy on a new player as the 2015 World Cup was just a year away. “Now, it’s a point of no return. The World Cup is read more...

Wives of Kashmiri men who have disappeared during the region’s long-running conflict should be allowed to remarry once four years have elapsed since their spouses went missing, Islamic scholars have ruled. The religious edict issued on Thursday is designed to ease the plight of more than a tho read more...

Love in Uttar Pradesh now comes with a price tag of Rs 50,000. After a recent High Court ruling, it has now been made mandatory for the boy to deposit the amount in the name of the girl if the couple wish to marry without the consent of their respective families. read more...

BJP’s PM candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi crossed a major hurdle on Thursday when an Ahmedabad court rejected Zakia Jafri’s plea against the SIT’s closure report giving a clean chit to Mr Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots. read more...

The government-sponsored pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Jerusalem and other Biblical places will most probably take off in February 2014. The scheme was initiated by the YSR government in 2009. It calls for the state government to provide financial assistance of Rs 20,000 per pilgrim to visit the H read more...

Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi’s fifth chief Minister on Saturday afternoon at Ramlila Maidan, from where he had launched an anti-corruption crusade under his mentor Anna Hazare in 2011. read more...

Govinda was born on 21 December, 1963. He was born to Arun Ahuja and Nirmala Devi. Here’s a rare picture of Govinda along with his mother and brother. Govinda graduated in commerce from Annasaheb Vartak College(Vasai), Maharashtra. At a very tender age, Govinda became obsessed with dance, aft read more...

Narendra Modi, who had consciously avoided reference to the Ram Temple issue in his earlier public meetings in Uttar Pradesh, on Friday appeared to be making a veiled reference to it by speaking of bringing in’Ram rajya’. Addressing a public meeting in the temple town of the state, which read more...

After initially refusing to take support from any of the two major parties, the nascent Aam Aadmi Party, which made a stunning political debut, winning 28 of 70 Assembly seats, is all set to stake claim to form the government in Delhi next week with the support of eight Congress legislators. The of read more...

Kochi: He was principled and dignified to a fault. In death too, these qualities never deserted him. In death, Prof Madhukar Rao showed his students and the society he lived in, what it took to lead a life of dedication and dignity. A legend in his own right, a teacher of English who retired from M read more...

Latha Bhagwan, the 61-year-old grandmother took athletes by surprise by winning the 3 km race at Baramati marathon. A farm labourer by profession, Lata participated in the marathon along with 9500 other people. The granny won in the senior citizen’s category and walked away with a cash prize of Rs read more...

New Delhi’s Connaught Place CBD is the most expensive office space in India followed by Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex in North Mumbai and Nariman Point in South Mumbai. Globally Connaught Place,(central business district) ranks 7th with BKC coming at 15th and Nariman Point 32nd according read more...

The United States has ruled out acceding to either of the two Indian demands - withdrawal of charges against its diplomat Devyani Khobragade, and an apology for alleged mistreatment, after her arrest in New York last week. read more...

Karimnagar: A 22-year-old man’s throat was slit open by unidentified persons for allegedly having an affair with a girl outside his religion. The Singareni employee was killed behind a weekly vegetable market at Jyothynagar in NTPC Colony late on Wednesday night. His body was found on Thursday. Mem read more...

Mumbai, Dec 19: Sussanne Roshan, who recently separated from Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, feels that no one should be blamed for their split. As the couple decided to part ways, there were rumours of Arjun Rampal’s involvement in the split following the alleged growing friendship between Sus read more...

Facebook has updated its Messenger app that includes a’dislike’ button. However, the’dislike’ option is only available on the desktop and mobile versions of Facebook Messenger, Fox News reports In order to access the new sticker pack, users will have to download it from the Sti read more...

Ronnie Biggs was a petty criminal who set out to transform his life with the daring heist of a mail train packed with money. The plan worked in ways he could never have imagined. Biggs was part of a gang of at least 12 men that robbed a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in the early hours of Aug. read more...

Hyderabad: While Information Technology has chosen Hyderabad as its favoured destination in the state, attempts to attract IT giants to other destinations had seen minimal response so far. However, a lot of action is expected in the near future with the bifurcation issue coming to a finalisation, t read more...