Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger is launching its own split-screen group video chat feature. Six users can appear in split-screen at the time and don Snapchat-style selfie masks, while 50 total can listen and talk over voice while sending text, stickers, emojis, and GIFs.
- by Associated Press
Chinese authorities are clamping down on streaming video over social media amid a proliferation of online-only television content and live-streaming.
- by Republica
Instagram is launching its answer to Snapchat geofilters, offering a way to spice up your photos and videos with stickers that display basic location names, time, weather, and emoji. There’s also limited-time seasonal graphics like Christmas trees and Hanukkah menorahs, and a holiday candy cane paint brush.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 22: Expressing concern over political instability and anarchy prevailing in the country, former king Gyanendra Shah has said that some forces are active in weakening the bonds between the mountain, hill and tarai regions of the country.
- by Agencies
One of Bollywood’s most-watched couples made an interesting choice when it came to naming their newborn baby.
- by Republica
GADRIYA, Dec 21: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal inaugurated the program of wheat super zone being implemented in the district under the agriculture modernization project in province no 7.
BHAKTAPUR, Minister for Law, Ajay Shankar Nayak, has said that local bodies' election was the last alternative to give an outlet to the existing political problems.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Rakesh Singh, 18, of Lahan-2 in Siraha has been arrested with drugs in his bag. He was arrested while he was traveling from Biratnagar to Kathmandu.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: The 2nd Nepal Infrastructure Summit-2017 is set to take place from February 19 in Kathmandu.
- by Republica
TAMGHAS, Dec 21: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Bimalendra Nidhi has urged the CPN (UML) not to lie to the people and spread illusion obstructing the parliament.
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Director Sudarshan Thapa has said that he is planning to make a new movie Ma Yasto Geeta Gaunchhu starring Paul Shah and Pooja Sharma.
- by PTI
MUMBAI, Dec 21: Veteran actor Dharamendra has been admitted to a hospital here as he was suffering from gastro infection and is on recovery path now.
- by Agencies
Earlier it had been reported that Karan Johar would be launching Saif Ali Khan’s daughter Sara Ali Khan in a film opposite Hrithik Roshan. Seems like that’s really not the case.
- by Reuters
Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will serve a three-match suspension after the club's appeal against his dismissal during Saturday's 2-2 Premier League draw with Stoke City was rejected, the Football Association (FA) said on Tuesday.
- by Republica
HETAUDA, Dec 21: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Ayodhi Prasad Yadav has said the elections of all three tiers would be possible only through understanding among all the political parties.
- by Reuters
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: A leading political ally of Narendra Modi has abruptly distanced himself from the Indian prime minister's move to scrap high-value banknotes, as broad initial support for the radical monetary reform showed signs of crumbling.
- by Agencies
Former CIA Senior Analyst John Nixon's new book "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” provides never-before-seen details into the daily life of Iraq's deposed dictator in the months before the 2003 US invasion wrenched him from power.
MUMBAI, Dec 21: Actress Priyanka Chopra has been roped in as the global ambassador of hair care brand Pantene. She has become the first Indian actress to represent the brand globally.
- by Republica
PARSA, Dec 21: Tarai-Madhesh Democratic Party (TMDP) Spokesperson Bimal Prasad Shreevastav has urged the major opposition CPN-UML to come on board for bringing into effect the new constitution.
- by Sharachchandra Bhandary/RSS
LAMABAGAR(Dolakha), Dec 21: Works to develop the 456-Megawatt Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project based in Dolakha are going on in full swing with a target of taking it to the power production phase within one and half years.