'My mother was a stuntwoman, so she is not scared. My wife gets scared, as she was a banker.' Khatron Ke Khiladi host Rohit Shetty takes us through the upcoming eighth season.

'None of these contestants are trained in stunts. In movies, we have cuts, safety nets, green screens, cables... but here, there is nothing. I had to keep motivating them. I would be drained out by evening at times because you are also demonstrating for them.' Rohit Shetty takes us behind the scenes of Khatron Ke Khiladi 8.

If these celeb sightings are anything to go by, the 10th edition of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is going to be a visual delight.

After displaying their sense of adventure and fear factor in Romania where the show was shot, the Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 contestants have returned to India.

Amitabh Bachchan is all set to don the host's hat once again for his popular television quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 16.

The Minions are touring London!

The entries received for the ‘Dear Chennai, with love’ initiative by The Hindu Made of Chennai, captured the city in all its glory

Buttigieg, Chasten, 1989- author

Cakes, cookies, puddings and more are in the Christmas hampers sold by home cooks

If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best practice to share sensitive information, such as access tokens, inside of environment variables to keep them secure. However, the way environment variables are read from JavaScript is error-prone in subtle ways that might take you hours...

Early on, it was a battle to get sponsorship for open source projects. What used to require phone calls and drawn-out discussions has now been streamlined thanks to efforts like Open Collective1 and GitHub Sponsors2. Companies and individuals can now know if a project accepts donations just by looking at the project page on GitHub,...

In part 11 of this series, I described how companies make decisions about spending their money and why they might (or might not) sponsor an open source project. If you haven’t yet read that post, I’d suggest going back to do so now before continuing. Everything in this post builds off the topics discussed in...

In the previous two posts in this series, I described why companies sponsor open source projects1 and how following some basic project hygiene can help attract sponsors2. Now that your project is functioning at a high level and is attractive to companies, it’s time to talk specifics about accepting sponsorships from companies. Making it easy...

Damian Tarnopolsky (Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster) joins Anna Dowdall (The Suspension Bridge, Radiant Press) and […]

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Alice Zorn (Colours in Her Hands) and Alice Irene Whittaker (Homing) will be signing books at the Read Quebec Book Fair! This vibrant event celebrates […]

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Learn about the latest updates to Google's Gemini models, including reduced pricing for Gemini 1.5 Pro, increased rate limits, faster performance, enhanced quality, and more.

Google is rolling out (in GA) a new Gemini model, 1.5 Flash-8B, our smallest production model with SOTA performance for its size.

The upholstery, curtains, and linens have been upgraded to better quality

The outdoor setting of Cubbon Reads and Cubbon Book Club fosters reading as well as social connections

Vizag Reads, a quiet reading community, meets every Sunday at VMRDA Central Park. It is the Visakhapatnam chapter of Cubbon Reads in Bengaluru, an initiative that has turned into a worldwide silent reading movement with more than 30 chapters across India and around 15 internationally

A weekend book reading initiative - Vizag reads - at the VMRDA Central Park in Visakhapatnam, is giving an opportunity for book-lovers to come together and read in peace.

Coimbatore Reads is one of the many chapters of Cubbon Reads, which has sparked a silent reading movement in several parts of the world

Threads passes 5 million sign ups in four hours: CEO Zuckerberg

Threads gains about 10 million signups within seven hours of the roll out

Mark challenges Elon with Twitter post

Threads accounts are linked to Instagram, allowing users to retain their usernames and followers.

New platform garnered over 30 million users after its debut

Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday, looks to take on Elon Musk's Twitter by taking advantage of Instagram's billions of users

On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others

In less than 24 hours, Threads attracted some 30 million users

Threads app received about 30 million signups as of Thursday morning

Guide to deactivate Threads

In a letter to Mark Zuckerburg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app

Mark Zuckerberg’s idealistic vision for Threads has been challenged from Day 1 by news junkies, politicians and other fans of rhetorical combat

Threads has started with some built-in defense mechanisms for harmful content, as its user policies are the same as Instagram’s

Threads bears a strong resemblance to Twitter, as do numerous other social media sites that have cropped up in recent months as users have chafed at Musk's management of the service

This move comes shortly after Threads gained over 100 million sign-ups in just five days

On September 23, Bhutan reopened its doors to the world with a fresh approach to sustainable tourism. The Himalayan kingdom has also added new activities and launched the Trans Bhutan Trail

ROFL, a friends-of-friends network of singles, which started in Delhi about seven years ago, has now expanded to seven cities across India; finding like-minded people and creating happy spaces is their success mantra

"We are now aggressively working on spreading awareness about our symbol 'mashaal'," MLA Udaysingh Rajput said, adding that he will also raise farmers' woes as part of his campaign

While the lifetime score of Gadar 2 and Pathaan is history now, next up is Animal, which would be crossed in a couple of days. The biggest of them all is Jawan and indications are that the Hindi version of last year's biggest hit will be challenged by this year's surprise blockbuster.

Katrina prefers denims during Diwali... Kajol has a question... Kartik takes Vidya to Kolkata...

Bollywood actresses are celebrating Diwali with gorgeous fashion moments.

The app has also added other changes in the interface so users can organise their chats better

'When it was confirmed that I would do the song, Manishaji walked up to me and asked, "Please Vijayshree, tell me how are you planning to do the song. Give me a rough idea so that I am mentally prepared".'

'At one time, I felt being a mother was the ultimate experience, a woman was not complete without it.''Now I feel it's not the be all and end all. Motherhood is a part of a jigsaw puzzle; life is the real big picture.'

Amrita Lahiri speaks to Anjana Rajan on her upcoming recital as a Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship recipient.

She talks about the eternal appeal of margam