Amazon.com Inc ramped up its push into hardware on Wednesday with the debut of six new or upgraded devices, including a high-end $199 e-reader called the Kindle Voyage and its cheapest-ever touch-screen tablet. The No. 1 U.S. online retailer also revamped its basic Kindle e-reader to include a Continue Reading
Month: September 2014
China has sentenced four people to up to 20 years in jail for “plotting terror attacks”, state media said, the latest in a wave of rulings as the government accelerates a crackdown on what it says is violence fueled by Islamist militants. The sentences came as the separate trial of Continue Reading
Elizabath Chacko. Even if the name does not ring a bell, Kochilites young and old alike will be familiar with Kalpana beauty parlour, which is the first beauty parlour in the commercial capital of kerala. The women behind the venture, Elizabeth Chacko was indeed ahead of her time-a true pioneer Continue Reading
Four months after a shooting that killed four people, the Brussels Jewish Museum opened its doors to the public again on Sundayin a solemn ceremony attended by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. The museum in central Brussels had been closed since the May 24 attack by a gunman who opened fire Continue Reading
A trio of films stepped beyond Bollywood song-and-dance to show South Asian women grappling with male-dominated sport, child marriage, and sexual desire of people with disability in their premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. While the stories told vastly different tales, all sought to Continue Reading
India’s industrial output growth hit a four-month low in July while inflation remained high, underscoring the struggle of Asia’s third-largest economy to make a sustained recovery from its longest stretch of sub-par growth in decades. Output from mines, utilities and factories grew Continue Reading
Rescuers raced to help communities hit by landslides in Indian Kashmir on Friday while thousands were stranded, homeless and hungry in the city of Srinagar, most of which was submerged by the region’s worst flooding in 50 years. Both the Indian and Pakistan sides of the disputed Himalayan Continue Reading
Rescuers raced to help communities hit by landslides in Indian Kashmir on Friday while thousands were stranded, homeless and hungry in the city of Srinagar, most of which was submerged by the region’s worst flooding in 50 years. Both the Indian and Pakistan sides of the disputed Himalayan Continue Reading
Introducing the best money making handbook, written by a teenager especially for teenagers! Allie Joy shows her generation how simple and fun it really is to stop asking parents for extra spending money and have the power to buy what they want when they want it! It is packed full of super fun Continue Reading
With her shocking dismissal in the spring of 2014, former New York Times editor Jill Abramson can now be added to the list of women who have been hired to run large, prominent corporations to be publicly fired soon thereafter. This troubling trend, often referred to as the glass cliff, raises Continue Reading