Congress hints at possible consensus on GST Bill after Arun Jaitley meets party leadership: However, other Opposition parties cried neglect and have accused the BJP and the Congress of striking their own deal. Sushma Swaraj to lead Indian delegation at Mother Teresa’s canonisation: The Nobel Laureate is among five people who ... Read More »
Indian national Gurdip Singh who along with 13 others was supposed to be executed by the Indonesian government was given a temporary relief on Friday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj confirmed. While the firing squad executed four drug convicts – two Nigerians, a Senegalese and an Indonesian – officials said ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton on Thursday night accepted the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, thus becoming the first woman ever to secure a major US party’s presidential nomination. Clinton presented a positive picture of the United States in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, promised ... Read More »
Smoking pot might harm your heart health and that of the people around you — perhaps even more than cigarettes, a new animal study suggests. Lab rats experienced a severe reduction in their blood vessel function after a minute’s exposure to secondhand smoke from either tobacco or marijuana, researchers said. ... Read More »
The renown Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem present us with its newest project the S house and its “bounded only by the skyline“ architecture and design. Despite its modernistic appearance, the house has an airy elegance and fresh lightness typical for many of the other projects of the architectural studio. The ... Read More »
The Democratic National Convention gaveled into session Monday engulfed in a toxic fog of bad news and worse media incentives that threatened to stagger what was meant to be a well-planned and festive event. Donald Trump’s real, sizable convention bounce, and the release by Wikileaks of hacked DNC emails that ... Read More »
Back in 2009, Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley and Say Anything frontman Max Bemis released a collaborative album under the name Two Tongues. According to some recent tweets by Max, a followup is coming this year. Details on that are still TBA, but the band did just announce their ... Read More »
Whether your grown-up chicks are returning back to the nest for Easter, or a flock of friends are joining you for a potluck Sunday morning brunch, gift them one of these seven age-appropriate Easter gifts, in baskets they can reuse time and again around the house. From: THE WINE-AND-CHEESE-BOARD BASKET ... Read More »
In late May T&C revealed that the Obama family is moving to an 8,200-square-foot house they’ll be renting in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. after they leave the White House. And now we can give you a tour of the inside, thanks to listing agent Mark McFadden. Scroll ... Read More »
Fourth of July hot dogs, hamburgers and other savory treats get a lot of the credit on Independence Day. But what really shines in any successful Fourth of July party, is a show-stopping cake. (A few sparklers to top it off for pizzaz don’t hurt, either.) The party hosting geniuses behind Twink + Sis, ... Read More »
A few months ago, a messaging app called Talkshow debuted with an interesting premise: all of your conversations on it are public. Everyone can “listen in” on the chatrooms you create, sort of like podcasting but in text form. One of the ways it differentiated itself from Twitter is that ... Read More »
a further attempt to tighten censorship, China this week said it was investigatingeight of the nation’s high-profile Internet companies for “serious violations” of rules on who may report and publish news, ordering them to shut down or “clean up” their websites immediately. Just as millions of Americans turn to Google and ... Read More »
