
Washington: A US government website on Friday published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces. The website, operated by a bureau of the State Department, published a series of overhead photos, said to be taken earlier this week by commercial satellite, showing what it said were mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla. They also...

02:25 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Pyongyang: In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography. The country is famous for organising crowds of thousands of people using coloured cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different. This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the...

08:14 AM, Apr 29, 2012

Samsung, rumours are rife, come out now. This is what people want from Samsung now. Believe it or not, but now is the right time ...

06:00 PM, Mar 22, 2012

New Delhi: Rumours of Samsung's new galaxy phone, dubbed Samsung Galaxy III, have been floating around for a quite a long time. And now a new image turned up on Reddit, a social news website, which has added more fuel to the fire. Reportedly, a Samsung fan site from Germany has somehow managed to get an internal document of Samsung's PR agency, Weber Shandwick that shows the upcoming Samsung Galaxy...

04:54 AM, Mar 18, 2012

Panaji: Politicians in Goa have suddenly begun sponsoring pilgrimages to Hindu and Christian religious sites with gusto - possibly hoping for "divine intervention" in the March 3 polls. Both aspiring candidates as well as Election Commission officials acknowledge that Hindu and Christian voters were being sponsored for pilgrimages to Shirdi in Maharashtra - known as the destination of Sai Baba devotees - and to Vailankanni in Tamil Nadu, a famous...

02:53 PM, Jan 18, 2012

New Delhi: Motorola is building up on their Droid army. After recently unveiling the Droid RAZR across the globe, images and specifications of Motorolas next handset have been leaked online through Droid Life. This time around it does not come in the form of blurry cam images, but rather official shots of the smartphone. The Droid 4 looks very alike to the Droid RAZR with the only difference being that...

01:04 PM, Nov 28, 2011

New York: Facebook said Wednesday that it has stopped most of the spam that has flooded many users' pages with pictures showing graphic sex and violence. The social-networking company urged its 800 million-plus users to remain vigilant to keep their accounts from being hijacked. That includes reporting suspicious links on friends' pages and not clicking on links that offer deals that are too good to be true. Social-networking sites are...

08:26 AM, Nov 17, 2011

New Delhi: Delhi Government is all set to implement an ambitious IT project this month under which 3D images of all over-ground and underground utilities like telephone lines, power cables, water and sewer lines and roads have been made available on a single portal to facilitate better urban planning and governance. The portal is ready for launch after almost three years of rigorous ground work to record high quality digital...

09:18 AM, Nov 11, 2011

New Delhi: For the last few years a satellite image purportedly showing an illuminated India on Diwali night unfailingly does the rounds on social media websites. But the fact is the image put up by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Centre has nothing to do with Diwali, the festival of lights. While not exactly a hoax, it is something shown out of context.The image in...

04:38 PM, Oct 27, 2011

Citizens sent us videos and pictures of people from across India and the world supporting Anna Hazare. ...

08:27 PM, Aug 21, 2011