First Audio Message

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today began 11-day rituals, including "strict vows and sacrifice", to prepare for the Ram temple consecration ceremony on January 22.

Either perform or "perish" - was Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's terse message during his first meeting with the employees of public sector telecom operator BSNL.

Twitter is going to test a feature that will let users send voice messages through direct messages, as per a report. Brazil will be the first country where the upcoming feature, which will have a simple interface, will be tested.

In a message to Congress supporters and voters ahead of her first visit to Uttar Pradesh as party general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that she hopes to "start a new kind of politics in which everyone - even the weakest - will be a stakeholder".

In his first outreach to the people of Goa since May, chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday extended Diwali greetings through an audio clip played on radio.

Selahattin Demirtas on Wednesday issued his first, and possibly only, audio message of the campaign where he will challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivered in a telephone call received by his wife Basak.

New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor called for unity in the movement in his first audio message released Saturday amid reports of rifts in their ranks following the announcement of the death of former chief Mullah Omar.

The Islamic State militant group has issued an audio message threatening to kill the second Japanese hostage they hold, as well as a Jordanian F-16 pilot captured in December. The release follows the same pattern as the first threat, after which another Japanese national was executed.

In the message, he says: "Hi everybody, I am Shah Rukh Khan. Why I'm introducing myself is because some of you may have heard me on radio, on television or films, but this is the first time you'll be hearing me on Twitter. And what better reason than to say 'I love you' for all the love you have given me, all the 10 mn heartbeats of love."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today began 11-day rituals, including "strict vows and sacrifice", to prepare for the Ram temple consecration ceremony on January 22.

Either perform or "perish" - was Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's terse message during his first meeting with the employees of public sector telecom operator BSNL.

Twitter is going to test a feature that will let users send voice messages through direct messages, as per a report. Brazil will be the first country where the upcoming feature, which will have a simple interface, will be tested.

In a message to Congress supporters and voters ahead of her first visit to Uttar Pradesh as party general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that she hopes to "start a new kind of politics in which everyone - even the weakest - will be a stakeholder".

In his first outreach to the people of Goa since May, chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday extended Diwali greetings through an audio clip played on radio.

Selahattin Demirtas on Wednesday issued his first, and possibly only, audio message of the campaign where he will challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivered in a telephone call received by his wife Basak.

New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor called for unity in the movement in his first audio message released Saturday amid reports of rifts in their ranks following the announcement of the death of former chief Mullah Omar.

The Islamic State militant group has issued an audio message threatening to kill the second Japanese hostage they hold, as well as a Jordanian F-16 pilot captured in December. The release follows the same pattern as the first threat, after which another Japanese national was executed.

In the message, he says: "Hi everybody, I am Shah Rukh Khan. Why I'm introducing myself is because some of you may have heard me on radio, on television or films, but this is the first time you'll be hearing me on Twitter. And what better reason than to say 'I love you' for all the love you have given me, all the 10 mn heartbeats of love."