New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Fashion designer Rina Dhaka has tied up with Nokia to create her exclusive Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) autumn-winter 2014 collection. Dhaka organised the preview of her collection, inspired by the Nokia Lumia 1520, here Thursday. The entire range will be showcased at the fashion week on March 26. She […]
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama Thursday said here that there should be no place for stigma against leprosy patients in the society. Addressing the patients suffering from leprosy and their family members, he said: “It is very important for the people affected by leprosy to be accepted by the society as […]
New York, March 19 (IANS) Singer Rihanna has chosen to flaunt an edgy look recently. She was first seen wearing a baseball jacket and designer backpack, and on another trip, she was spotted in a crop top. The “Stay” hitmaker stepped out in the baseball jacket in New York Monday, and the night before, she was […]
Chandigarh, March 18 (IANS) Actress Kirron Kher, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, Tuesday joined microblogging site Twitter to build a “direct connection” with the public. “Time I get on Twitter and make direct connection with all of you! I’m the BJP candidate from Chandigarh. Need all your […]
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was trending on Twitter Tuesday — thanks to certain uncomplimentary observations by a US consulate official describing him as an “insular and distrustful person” and which have been published on Wikileaks. While some of the twitterati gleefully played up certain uncomplimentary observations about Modi, a […]
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) Boxing champion Vijender Singh, who is ready to make his Bollywood debut and who walked the ramp at the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer-resort 2014 here, finds it easier to model than box in a ring. He was the showstopper for designer Archana Kochhar at the recently concluded fashion gala here. “I […]
New York, March 18 (IANS) A key morning breakfast food has just got better. The soluble fibre in oats helps lower total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or ‘bad’ cholesterol but scientists now say that the cardiovascular health benefits of oats goes beyond fibre. The phenolic compound avenanthramide (AVE) – found only in oats – may possess […]
Washington, March 17 (IANS) Our grandmothers have extolled the medicinal virtues of honey, for everything from cold and sore throats to colitis and even diabetes. Now add battling bacterial resistance to the list. That’s the finding of a study conducted as part of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest […]
Mumbai, March 16 (IANS) Actress Sunny Leone, who scorched the ramp in designer Jyotsana Tiwari’s peach-pink gown Sunday at the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014, says she was “nervous”, but enjoyed the “comfortable” outfit. “I was nervous walking the ramp, but the gown is very comfortable. This is a gown that everybody would love to wear. […]
Los Angeles, March 16 (IANS) Actress Angelina Jolie, who had a double mastectomy in May last year, says “there’s still another surgery to have, which I haven’t yet”. The 38-year-old had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery after being told she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer because she carries the BRCA1 gene. “There’s […]