New Delhi: Samsung has introduced yet another Galaxy S4 variant - the Galaxy S4 Zoom - which has a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor with 10x optical zoom. It includes Xenon Flash and a zoom ring. According to the company, when you're in the middle of a phone call and you see something you absolutely have to share, a quick twist of the Zoom Ring will activate the In-Call Photo Share...
03:01 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: We have already seen three variants of the Samsung Galaxy S4 - Galaxy S4 nexus edition, Galaxy S4 mini, and Galaxy S4 Active, and if recent rumours are to be believed, the fourth variant dubbed "Galaxy S4 Zoom" will be unveiled at Samsung's June 20 event in London. Leaked pictures of what is claimed to be the Galaxy S4 Zoom are doing the rounds on the Internet. SamMobile,...
02:20 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Following the death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq in a Chandigarh hospital on Thursday morning, Pakistan High Commissioner Manzoor Ali Memon said he has requested the Government of India for an international probe into the matter. Sanaullah was attacked by his fellow Indian inmate in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal Jail on May 3. He was thereafter airlifted to PGIMER, Chandigarh, where was in a "deep coma" and on ventilator...
09:21 AM, May 09, 2013
Giraffe baby Jamila canoodles with mother Juji at the outdoor enclosure of the Zoo in Hannover, Germany, May 7,2013. The Giraffe baby was born on April 21, 2013. ...
05:43 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Fujifilm India has launched the SL1000 camera with a 50x zoom lens. Priced at Rs 29,999, it offers a shooting range of 1cm super macro to a huge 1200mm extreme telephoto. The camera also lets you record movies in Full HD with its advanced filter and 3D shooting features. With Intelligent Digital Zoom - the focal length is effectively doubled to 2400mm. Its High-Magnification Zoom and Powerful Optical...
03:08 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Sources say the actor had apparently named the Dolphin 'Smoothie'. ...
02:59 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A snow-white polar bear cub was brought into the Buffalo Zoo, NY, on November 27, 2012. ...
12:55 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Dr M S Sunil is a zoology professor at the Catholicate College in Kerala's small town of Pathanamthitta but what she does is much more than just teaching. It started a few years ago when she decided to build a home for one one of her students who lived in very shanty conditions. What started off as a solo effort has now grown into what many call the M S...
11:00 AM, Feb 05, 2013
In what can be clearly termed as gross negligence on part of the Kanpur zoo authorities, around 31 blackbucks were killed by stray dogs on Sunday. It was not known how the dogs managed to enter the zoo. The authorities claimed they were investigating the incident. While only seven blackbucks are left after the attack, there has been no word on action against the zoo staff, except for three security...
08:53 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Suspected militants on Sunday shot at and injured a woman panchayat member in Sopore area in Baramulla district of North Kashmir. Militants shot Zoona, wife of Mohammad Ramzan, in the neck at her house at Hardshiva Sopore, some 52-km from here, police said. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has called for a security meet in the wake of yet another attack on a sarpanch in Kashmir - third in the series of latest attacks in 2013 on panchayat representatives by suspected militants. On Saturday, the sarpanch was injured and admitted to a hospital in a critical condition. ...
07:45 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Bangalore: The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Apple Inc's 'pinch-to-zoom' patent in a preliminary ruling that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd argues supports its request for a new trial in the patent war against its rival. Apple scored a sweeping legal victory over its South Korean competitor in August when a U.S. jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple...
11:01 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association president Farooq Abdullah has ordered an inquiry into the Ranji team selection fiasco a day after JKCA treasurer Manzoor Wazir had tendered his resignation for failing to end the impasse. Wazir had dispatched his resignation to Abdullah on Friday, stating that he made every possible effort to ease things out between JKCA and Kashmiri players over the issue of team selection and captaincy, but...
08:13 PM, Dec 01, 2012
"There are many office-bearers in the association but they did not do anything to resolve the issue," the treasurer said. ...
07:51 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) treasurer Manzoor Wazir on Friday submitted his resignation citing failure to defuse the crisis engulfing the state team. Recently, state team players from Kashmir had levelled charges of regional bias against coach Bishen Singh Bedi and accused him of preferring Jammu players over them. The players, led by state team captain Samiullah Beigh, went on to boycott a Ranji match against Andhra Pradesh,...
06:35 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: A 40-year-old Polish orangutan has a strange obsession. He cannot go to bed unless he's read 50 pages of writer Jane Austen's masterpiece 'Pride And Prejudice'. The Daily Mail reported quoting the newspaper Daily Star that Albert, the 200-pound orangutan at the Gdansk Zoo in Poland has to be read Elizabeth Bennet's travails with Mr Darcy every night or he won't sleep. His keeper Michael Krause was quoted...
12:40 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Actress Kristen Stewart has been named as the most searched celebrity for fashion on the site mycelebrityfashion.co.uk. The 22-year-old, who has been in news for the infamous cheating scandal with director Rupert Sanders, has beaten Pippa Middleton, who was the most searched celebrity in 2011 but is out of the list. Coming second to Stewart is singer Tulisa Contostavlos who is currently seen as a judge on 'The...
11:24 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Itanagar: A tigress was killed and hacked into pieces in her enclosure by poachers at Itanagar zoo on Tuesday. The poachers broke in and killed the six-year-old tigress on Tuesday night reportedly taking advantage of the absence of the three guards on duty. The guards had gone for their dinner and found the hacked tigress carcass in the enclosure. Investigation was on to nab the culprits and the forest department...
09:35 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A demo drive of an electric buggy was held on the zoo compound here on Friday. Tourism Minister A P Anilkumar conducted the demo drive of the buggy, which will soon be introduced in the Zoo. Zoo authorities are planning to purchase around four buggies. Anil Kumar, accompanied by other zoo officials, drove the vehicle in the zoo on Friday morning. The electric buggy can accommodate minimum 20 persons....
12:11 PM, Sep 22, 2012
