Most people are responding to messages, looking at social media notifications, reading news or replying to office emails in middle of the night which has significantly disrupted their sleep patterns, a new study has warned. The study “Global Mobile Consumer Survey 2016” conducted by global consultancy firm Deloitte found that almost half of 18 to […]
Sam Allardyce has left his post as England manager by mutual agreement with the Football Association after one match and 67 days in charge. It follows a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to “get around” rules on player transfers, the BBC reported. Allardyce, 61, is also alleged to have used his role […]
With India deciding to pull out of the Saarc Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad in November, the US has said that it continues to pressurise Pakistan to act against terror safe havens within its borders while calling for “de-escalation of the political discourse” between the two South Asian neighbours. Following the September 18 […]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the first US Ambassador to Cuba in over 50 years. “Today, I am proud to nominate Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first US Ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years,” Xinhua news agency quoted Obama as saying in a news release issued by […]
Pakistan’s Defence Minister has termed the terror attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir an “inside job” and said the assault which left 18 soldiers dead was planned by India itself. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Dawn News that no proof implicating Pakistan in the September 18 attack has […]
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has won the first presidential debate, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. The poll of debate watchers put Clinton at 62 per cent while Republican rival Donald Trump lost by 27 per cent in Monday night’s debate held at the Hofstra University, New York.
As Google celebrated its 18th birthday with an animated, festive-balloon Doodle on Tuesday, there were some confusion regarding the date as the search engine giant has celebrated its birthday on other days in the month of September in the past. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. The company’s own […]
In a surprise find, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter’s moon Europa, suggesting that life may exist in our solar system. The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through miles of […]
US presidential contenders, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, sparred for 90 minutes at the Hofstra University auditorium in New York state in the first of their three presidential debates with pollsters giving an edge to the former first lady. The debate covered American prosperity and security, and in each of these issues Trump […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s advisor on Hispanic issues, Jose Fuentes, hopes that Monday night’s debate helps get across the mogul’s image of “change” compared to his “stiff” Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, who – he says – speaks more to people’s heads than to their hearts. In an interview with EFE news at the debate […]