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New Delhi: A painting named ‘Woman sitting by a window (Marie-Therese)’ by prominent artist Pablo Picasso was sold at a whopping price of $103.4 million at the British auction house Christie’s in New York, as per an AFP report.  The British auction house stated the 1932 painting was sold for $90 million in 19 minutes of bidding,…

Sushil Kumar is named in an FIR in connection with a brawl that led to the death of a 23-year-old wrestler on May 4, inside the Chhatrasal Stadium complex in north Delhi. Delhi Police has been trying to locate the absconding Sushil Kumar since May 4 (Reuters Photo) HIGHLIGHTS Sushil Kumar was allegedly involved in…

Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence — a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta’s security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars. Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on April 14 in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy…

A man just got lucky, thanks to a mistake by ecommerce major Amazon. Lokesh Daga, a Mumbai resident, had ordered Colgate mouthwash from Amazon. However, much to his surprise, he reportedly ended up receiving a Redmi Note 10.  Daga took to the microblogging platform Twitter to share the bizarre incident. In a series of tweets,…

New Delhi: Gold appears to be losing its sheen after its impressive rally last week. So far, gold futures have dropped by Rs 600 per 10 gram in the ongoing week on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX). The prices have also dipped in the bullion market. On MCX, gold futures were trading…

Toronto: Chinese short video platform TikTok is being sued by a voice actor who claims her voice was used in the viral text-to-speech feature, without her permission. The lawsuit, filed last week, said Bev Standing`s voice has been used to repeat “foul and offensive language” and that TikTok`s use will cause her “irreparable harm”. According…

India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and his wife Rivaba were administered their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday. Ravindra Jadeja gets 1st dose of Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo: Gopi Maniar/India Today) HIGHLIGHTS Ravindra Jadeja and his wife Rivaba get vaccine against coronavirus Ravindra Jadeja made a comeback to India’s Test squad for England tour Ravindra…

The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in England has prevented nearly 12,000 deaths and more than 30,000 hospitalisations in older people, an analysis has found. Britain has given two-thirds of its adult population at least one shot of Covid vaccine. (Reuters) The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in England has prevented nearly 12,000 deaths and more than…

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp comes with end-to-end encryption, and it is now looking to introduce encryption for chat backups which basically boils down to that nobody will be able to access your private chats, not even WhatsApp. The messaging platform generally allows users to backup chats to Google Drive, which is a separate entity.  According…

NEW DELHI: Amid growing concerns over the spiralling fuel prices, the retail prices of petrol and diesel were hiked again on Tuesday for the sixth time this month. This has propelled the prices to cross the Rs 100-a-litre-mark in places from Nanded in Maharashtra to Rewa in Madhya Pradesh to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. Petrol price…