People who use smartphones in excess may experience personal, social and workplace problems, warns new research.

In the study, participants who identified themselves as "addicts" and "fanatics" exhibited signs that could indicate depression, social isolation, social anxiety, shyness, impulsivity and low self-esteem. 

"Our smartphones have turned into a tool that provides short, quick, immediate satisfaction, which is very triggering," said Isaac Vaghefi, Assistant Professor at Binghamton University-State University of New York. 

"Our neurons get fired and dopamine is being released, and over time this makes us acquire a desire for quick feedback and immediate satisfaction. This process also has contributed to developing shorter attention spans and being more and more prone to boredom," Vaghefi said.

The umbrella term "technology addiction" refers to addictive behaviour related to social media, excessive texting, information overload, online shopping, gambling, video gaming, online pornography and overall smartphone usage.

For the study, the researchers surveyed 182 college students and asked them to report their daily routine of smartphone usage. 

Based on the analysis of the responses, they classified the user as one of the following types — thoughtful, regular, highly engaged, fanatic and addict. 

Seven per cent identified as "addicts" and 12 per cent identified as "fanatics." 

Both groups experience personal, social and workplace problems due to a compulsive need to be on their smartphones, according to the study published in the Information Systems Journal.

Females were most likely to exhibit susceptibility to addiction, the study said.

"While self-identified 'addict' users were in the minority, I predict technology addiction will increase as technology continues to advance and application, game and gadget developers find new ways to ensure users' long term engagement with technology," Vaghefi said.

The researchers said that if you constantly check your smartphone, even when it does not ring or vibrate, or you get paranoid when the smartphone is not with you, seeking professional help might be a good idea. 

Moreover, if you use technology as a way of escaping problems or relieving feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety or depression, or you ignore what is happening in real time in favour of what is happening virtually, you might then be a right candidate to seek professional help, the researchers said.
 

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's conversation with Brett Ratner at the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) will be live streamed on Twitter.

The film gala is paying a tribute to the actor, whose My Name Is Khan will be screened in San Francisco on Friday.

Global fans of Shah Rukh, who has more than 24 million followers on Twitter, will be able to join the audience for the interview. 

SFFILM's Executive Director Noah Cowan said in a statement, "We are thrilled to be able to share this special conversation with audiences worldwide through our partnership with Twitter." 

The experience integrates live conversations utilising Twitter polls and questions from the Twitter audience using the hashtag #SRKSFFILM, providing the opportunity to connect and participate from anywhere in the world. 

"Film is one of the most popular subjects discussed on Twitter, from reviews to premieres to the industry's biggest stars," said Anthony Noto, COO, Twitter.

Without blaming India by name, Pakistan on Thursday said "foreign intelligence agencies" may have kidnapped a retired Pakistani Army officer who has gone missing in Nepal.

The Dawn quoted Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria as saying at the weekly press briefing that retired Lt Col Habib Zahir had been trapped in Nepal "after being lured into a job offer".

He said Pakistani authorities were in touch with the Nepal government to trace Zahir and Kathmandu was cooperating.

Zakaria, however, warned against linking Zahir's disappearance with the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an alleged Indian spy sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court for espionage and sabotage.

"It is unreasonable on India's part to link the Jadhav case with Habib Zahir," he said.

Zakaria appeared to be referring to Indian media reports that say that Zahir was part of the team that picked up Jadhav.

Pakistan says Jadhav was caught in Balochistan and he was working for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). India says Jadhav was abducted from Iran.

Zahir, who retired from the Army in 2014, went missing on April 6 from Lumbini, a Buddhist pilgrimage site near the Indian border.

The Pakistani reached Nepal after he was lured with a job offer by someone by the name of Mark Thompson.

The spokesman said clear evidence existed of Indian involvement in Pakistan's internal affairs and India's attempts to spread terrorism in the country.

"India has been caught red-handed interfering in Pakistan," Zakaria said.

He claimed that India had interfered in Pakistani affairs in the past as well.

German federal prosecutors said on Thursday that they had no evidence that the sole suspect in custody for the bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund football team bus was linked to the crime.

However they said that they were seeking an arrest warrant to keep the 26-year-old Iraqi national, identified only as Abdul Beset A in detention over allegedly having been a “member of the Islamic State group” in Iraq.

Abdul Beset A was detained in connection with the three explosions that rocked the Borussia Dortmund bus late Tuesday, injuring a player and a police officer.

Federal prosecutors have called it a “terrorist” attack and said they are focusing on suspects in the “Islamist spectrum”.
But in a statement today they acknowledged: “The investigation has not found evidence that the suspect took part in the attack.”

They said, however, that they now believe Abdul Beset A. joined the Islamic State group in Iraq in late 2014 and was the commander of a unit of around 10 fighters.

“The goal of the unit was to prepare kidnappings, abductions, extortion and killings,” the prosecutors said.
He crossed the border into Turkey in March 2015 and continued on in early 2016 to Germany “where the suspect maintained contact with IS members,” they added.

Abdul Beset A will appear today before a judge who will decide on prosecutors' application for the arrest warrant.

Without blaming India by name, Pakistan on Thursday said "foreign intelligence agencies" may have kidnapped a retired Pakistani Army officer who has gone missing in Nepal.

The Dawn quoted Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria as saying at the weekly press briefing that retired Lt Col Habib Zahir had been trapped in Nepal "after being lured into a job offer".

He said Pakistani authorities were in touch with the Nepal government to trace Zahir and Kathmandu was cooperating.

Zakaria, however, warned against linking Zahir's disappearance with the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an alleged Indian spy sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court for espionage and sabotage.

"It is unreasonable on India's part to link the Jadhav case with Habib Zahir," he said.

Zakaria appeared to be referring to Indian media reports that say that Zahir was part of the team that picked up Jadhav.

Pakistan says Jadhav was caught in Balochistan and he was working for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). India says Jadhav was abducted from Iran.

Zahir, who retired from the Army in 2014, went missing on April 6 from Lumbini, a Buddhist pilgrimage site near the Indian border.

The Pakistani reached Nepal after he was lured with a job offer by someone by the name of Mark Thompson.

The spokesman said clear evidence existed of Indian involvement in Pakistan's internal affairs and India's attempts to spread terrorism in the country.

"India has been caught red-handed interfering in Pakistan," Zakaria said.

He claimed that India had interfered in Pakistani affairs in the past as well.

Amid weak economic data and lower opening of European markets, domestic benchmark indices closed Thursday’s trading session with declines. The BSE Sensex closed 182 points or 0.61 per cent down at 29,461 while the NSE Nifty ended 53 points or 0.57 per cent lower at 9,151.

However, broader markets closed in the positive zone. BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices rose 0.1 per cent and 0.2 per cent respectively.

Among the BSE sectoral indices, Metal index closed with the biggest dip, down 2.8 per cent. IT (down 2.7 per cent), Teck (down 2.6 per cent) and Capital Goods (down 1 per cent) indices were other notable losers. Oil & Gas and Realty indices gained 1 per cent and 0.9 per cent respectively.

On Wednesday, the BSE Sensex closed 145 points or 0.49 per cent down at 29,643 while the NSE Nifty ended 34 points or 0.36 per cent lower at 9,203.

India's Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation or retail inflation rose to 3.81 per cent in March from 3.18 per cent during the previous month.

Meanwhile, Country’s Index of Industrial Production (IIP) or factory output slipped by 1.2% on year-on-year basis for the month of February.

Top gainers in the Sensex-30 pack: Sun Pharma (up 1.2 per cent), Power Grid (up 0.9 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 0.8 per cent), M&M (up 0.5 per cent) and ICICI Bank (up 0.5 per cent).

Top losers in the Sensex-30 pack: Infosys (down 3.6 per cent), Tata Steel (down 3.1 per cent), Adani Ports (down 2.6 per cent), TCS (down 2.6 per cent) and Bharti Airtel (down 2.5 per cent).

Meanwhile, the Rupee was trading 27 paise higher at 64.41 against the US Dollar.

Actress Swara Bhaskar, who has been lauded for her role as a village dancer in the film Anaarkali of Aarah, says it was a risk she took.

"There are a lot of female-centric films being made, a lot of them trying to pick up the issue of sexuality, but they are kind of safe," Swara said.

"They are picking up protagonists we can relate to, the multiplex crowd relates to that protagonist or it is very sweet subject that is emotional, that is about family, friendship and friends or it's the working girls who we all can relate to."

"Who relates to this Aarah, desi, foul-mouthed, Bihari dilect, spewing pan and beedi smoking like a 'characterless' woman? Female self-expression in a sexual sense was the dominant theme of the film and that I say is risky," Swara added.

Talking about the theme of the film, Swara says most films show women as 'bechaari' (helpless) in the end, but her role in Avinash Das's directorial outrightly says otherwise.

"Till now, every Hindi film that talks about sexual assault and violence of any kind takes great efforts to show that the women were ‘bechaaris' or that they were normal victims, normal girls… We are not even getting into all that," the 29-year-old said.

"We are saying. 'Yes she is characterless. Yes, may be in your language, she is a slut. Now let's start the conversation'. When you frame it like this, then you are putting consent right there without any apology," she added.

The actress spoke about her role and more in a candid talk for an upcoming episode of Off Centre on CNN-News18. It will be aired on Saturday.

Actress Gal Gadot revealed that Beyonce's music helped her get in the right mindset when she was auditioning for the role of Wonder Woman.

In W Magazine's May cover story, the 31-year-old star, who will portray the warrior in an upcoming standalone film, said she listened to Queen B's tracks to slay the audition, reported Entertainment Weekly.

“When I auditioned for Batman v Superman, I didn't know it was for Wonder Woman. The director, Zack Snyder, asked me to do a camera test. That was torture. They were looking at six or seven girls, and we were all in separate trailers and were told to stay inside until they called us.

“Waiting is my enemy Number One, and I was losing my mind. So, I decided to put on Beyonce. Who runs the world? Girls! I just started to dance, and I let my anxiety go. Thank you, Beyonce,” Gadot said.

Serie A giants Juventus, fresh from their 3-0 humbling of FC Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League, on Thursday announced that they have extended Paulo Dybala’s contract up to 2022, via an official press release on their website (www.juventus.com).

A visibly excited Dybala exclaimed: "I've always just wanted to succeed in everything that I do and I know that Juventus is the perfect place to be if you want to win things."

Dybala, who joined the Bianconeri in July 2015, won the Italian Super Cup, Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in his debut season, top-scoring with a tally of 23 goals in all competitions.

While this season his goalscoring exploits have not been as impressive from a statistical standpoint, due to Gonzalo Higuain playing at the tip of the Juve attack, Dybala produced a show-stopping double against Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday night.

Since scoring 14 minutes into his Juve debut in the Super Cup final in Shanghai in August 2015, no one has created more chances (137) or completed more dribbles (178) than Dybala. And his 39 goals and 16 assists in all competitions make him both the Bianconeri's leading scorer and provider over the past 18 months.

Only centre back Leonardo Bonucci and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon have made more appearances in that period.

The official statement read:
“Juventus Football Club SpA announces that, following the renewal of the employment contract with the player Paulo Dybala until 30 June 2022, the performance bonus of €8 million became due to U.S. Città di Palermo SpA and will be paid in four instalments starting from 2018/2019 football season.”

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to include Urdu as language in National Eligibility cum Entrance test (NEET) exam from academic session 2018-19 onward.

"We direct the Centre to include Urdu as a language in NEET examination from academic session 2018-19 onward," the top court bench said.

Earlier, the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) had filed a plea requesting the top court to include Urdu as a language in NEET 2017. Since last year, state governments have also been requesting the Centre to include regional languages.

The Centre had told the top court it was not feasible to introduce Urdu as one of the mediums for the NEET from the current academic year.

At present, NEET is being conducted in 10 languages — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telegu, Tamil and Kannada languages.

Despite the 22-yard Eden Gardens strip not playing to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) strength as it is expected to have more bounce and carry but bereft of turn, coach Jacques Kallis said the twice Indian Premier League (IPL) champions have enough variety in their arsenal to cope with any kind of condition.

KKR have always banked on their spinners to get them wickets for the last couple of seasons. But this time, the Eden track is expected to assist the pacers.

"The wicket has changed quite a bit this season. I think it's been relaid. It's a good cricket wicket. We have had a lot of warm-up games on the wicket before the tournament started. We assembled a week earlier just to make sure we get used to our home conditions which will hopefully play into our hands," Kallis told reporters on the eve of KKR's first home outing against Kings XI Punjab.

"We are fortunate enough to have spinners who can bowl on any conditions. They don't only need the conditions to succeed. We have got some mystery spinners, some wrist spinners who are tougher to read than the orthodox spinners. We feel good wicket could even help us," Kallis said.

From West Indian mystery spinner Sunil Narine to chinaman Kuldeep Yadav, leg-spinner Piyush Chawla and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan; KKR have a mixed bag in the tweakers' department. 

But unlike last few seasons where the men in purple were heavily reliant on spinners with the Eden wicket also being slow turners, this time the likes of Trent Boult and Chris Woakes would have to step up as the pitch would be more conducive to pacers.

"We are fortunate to have a lot of talents in our side where we can mix and match our bowling attack," the 41-year old former South Africa all-rounder said.

"We have different options for different wickets. Obviously the wickets are not going play the same as last season. But we will come up with ideas, the team selection that will revolve around conditions and opposition. But we will stick to our strength. It's about getting the right side for the right game." 

On the catching which has let KKR down in the first two matches this season, Kallis said it's an area they pride themselves on and would like to improve.

"It's surprising. We pride ourselves in our fielding. It is an area we have been pretty good last couple of seasons. Hopefully we can that right. I think it's much of a mindset. We know that's an issue. Hopefully we can improve on that. For me, it's such an area that we really want to improve. It's something that we pride ourselves on," he pointed out.

After a resounding 10-wicket win against Gujarat Lions in their opening game, KKR threw away their next tie against Mumbai.

The hosts needed 49 runs off the last three overs and poor bowling by New Zealand's Trent Boult and Ankit Rajpoot — who is likely to be replaced by fit-again Umesh Yadav on Thursday — cost the Gautam Gambhir-led side the game.

"It's a little setback," Kallis said reflecting on the match.

"Probably we were in control of the game for 36 of the 40 overs. Certainly a game that we thought we lost rather than that Mumbai won. Having said that conditions got tougher for the bowlers. There was dew. It was tough. They played well in the last four overs.

"Our guys would have learnt from that. We are certainly not a team that it will mess with the rest of our season. I think we will rather learn from it than it hurting the guys too much so nice that it happened so early in the tournament so that we can learn from it than in an important game. So I think lessons will be learnt."

Kings XI come into the tie having won both of their engagements against Rising Pune Supergiant and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

"It's a good side obviously, they are a dangerous and well-balanced side. We have to be on top of our game to beat them. All sides are evenly-matched. It will boil down to the team who makes the most of the opportunity. Hope we will get back to the winning ways," Kallis said.

A man dragged off an "overbooked" United Airlines flight in an incident which shocked the world has launched legal action against the passenger carrier.

Dr David Dao, 69, refused to give up the seat he had paid for after being asked to leave, and was dragged by his hands on his back off the parked plane, which had been bound for Louisville, Kentucky. 

He was left bloodied after the Sunday evening incident at Chicago Airport and the footage provoked international outrage, reported CBS News. 

The Dao family issued a statement expressing gratitude for the "outpouring of support".

Citing the risk of "serious prejudice" to their client, the lawyers want the airline and the City of Chicago, which runs O'Hare International Airport, to preserve surveillance videos, cockpit voice recordings, passenger and crew lists and other materials related to United Flight 3411. 

The filing with the Cook County Circuit Court likely presages an eventual lawsuit against United for the April 9 incident. 

Dao is scheduled to hold a press conference on Thursday, his legal team said.

The airline's chief executive, Oscar Munoz, said in an interview to ABC News on Wednesday that he will not resign.

Munoz said he felt "shame and embarrassment" and vowed it would never happen again.

The airline said it is "reaching out" to customers on Flight 3411 and "offering compensation for their flights".

Much of the uproar stemmed from Dao's status as a paying passenger who was being removed, against his will, to make room for additional crew members on the overbooked flight.

Three security officers have been placed on leave after the incident, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. Their names have not been released, according to the report.

On Capitol Hill, powerful Republican and Democratic lawmakers denounced how Dao was treated and called for United to explain the situation.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, announced plans for the Customers Not Cargo Act, which would prohibit the forcible removal of passengers already aboard an aircraft "due to overbooking or airline staff seeking to fly as passengers".

Two online petitions calling for Munoz to step down as CEO had more than 124,000 signatures combined by Wednesday afternoon.

The backlash from the incident resonated around the world, with social media users in the United States, China and Vietnam calling for boycott of the No.3 US carrier by passenger traffic and an end to the practice of overbooking flights.

While a lack of art institutions has restricted artists to galleries and museums, renowned contemporary artist Sudarshan Shetty says there is a need to come up with more places to hold exhibitions.

“We have to reconfigure and look beyond the spaces like museums and galleries. Although we all talk about being out of gallery space here, it doesn't make much sense to me because we do not have enough institutions outside these places.

“It is better that we carry forward with operating inside as well as outside of these places with a realisation that the whole process is 'lateral' and not 'pyramidal' in nature,” Shetty said during a conversation, “Art Matters” at India International Center here.

The artist also found it to be a complex process to exhibit in museums when he thought of doing a show at Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.

“I have a lot of question while thinking about museums as institutions. When I was thinking of doing a show in Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the first brief given was to respond to the objects there.

“I found that many objects were not dated whereas others didn't have information about where did they come from. It was quite strange to notice those things and the process became more and more complex to think about a show in that museum,”

The artist, who curated the recently concluded Kochi- Muziris Biennale and invited poets and litterateurs to participate besides artists, believes poetry and literature have played an inspirational role in his artistic journey.

“For me, it was an opportunity to get the poets at the Biennale and create a physical space. It was not just a literary experience because poetry encompasses all.

“Even the sessions at the Biennale were converted into conversations and opened up in a way which were related to the art world. The presence of literature and poetry at the Biennale became central to the essence of it,” he said.

Shetty, who recently displayed his multi-media project “Shoonya Ghar” at National Gallery of Modern Art here, says the work was an interpretation of feeling “meaningless” by using abundance of images.

“The project came out of an interpretation to create something with abundance of images and yet present a feel that it was all meaningless,” he said.

The work inspired by a poetic verse of 12th century poet Gorakhnath includes a film, enacting scenes in which drama mobilises conventions of representing birth, death, dance, play, music and violence in local traditions of story-telling.

Shetty says it was challenging to cut short fourteen hours footage into an hour and yet remain close to the theme.

“When I was working on the project, I wanted to make a 25 min short video but it didn't work. We had fourteen hours of footage and we ended up editing it maximum to an hour. It took us 18 months to write the script itself,” he said.

The discussion was part of a running series of panel discussions and dialogues on arts and culture organised by Raza Foundation.

An Earth-sized 'Tatooine' like planet could be quite hospitable if located at the right distance from its two stars, according to a new study.

With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in “Star Wars” looks like a parched, sandy desert world.

“In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets, although planets discovered so far around double-star systems are large and gaseous,” researchers said.

Scientists wondered if an Earth-size planet orbiting two suns could support life.
They found that such a planet could be quite hospitable if located at the right distance from its two stars, and would not necessarily even have deserts.

In a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for a long time, researchers said.

“This means that double-star systems of the type studied here are excellent candidates to host habitable planets, despite the large variations in the amount of starlight hypothetical planets in such a system would receive,” said Max Popp, from Princeton University in the US.

Popp and Siegfried Eggl, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory created a model for a planet in the Kepler 35 system.

In reality, the stellar pair Kepler 35A and B host a planet called Kepler 35b, a giant planet about eight times the size of Earth, with an orbit of 131.5 Earth days.

For their study, researchers neglected the gravitational influence of this planet and added a hypothetical water- covered, Earth-size planet around the Kepler 35 AB stars.

They examined how this planet's climate would behave as it orbited the host stars with periods between 341 and 380 days.
“Our research is motivated by the fact that searching for potentially habitable planets requires a lot of effort, so it is good to know in advance where to look,” Eggl said.

“We show that it is worth targeting double-star systems,” said Eggl.

In exoplanet research, scientists speak of a region called the “habitable zone,” the range of distances around a star where a terrestrial planet is most likely to have liquid water on its surface.

In this case, because two stars are orbiting each other, the habitable zone depends on the distance from the centre of mass that both stars are orbiting.

To make things even more complicated, a planet around two stars would not travel in a circle; instead, its orbit would wobble through the gravitational interaction with the two stars.

Researchers found that on the far edge of the habitable zone in the Kepler 35 double-star system, the hypothetical water-covered planet would have a lot of variation in its surface temperatures.

Since such a cold planet would have only a small amount of water vapour in its atmosphere, global average surface temperatures would swing up and down by as much as 2 degrees Celsius in the course of a year.

“This is analogous to how, on Earth, in arid climates like deserts, we experience huge temperature variations from day to night,” Eggl said.

“The amount of water in the air makes a big difference,” Eggl added. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.

Filmmaker Amy Berg, actors Zachary Quinto and Willem Dafoe, and TV producer Sheila Nevins among others will also be on the jury, it was announced on Wednesday, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

Priyanka, who became a popular name in Hollywood through her lead role in TV series Quantico, will look after the 2017 Documentary and Student Visionary Competitions alongside Olivia Thirlby, Ryan Eggold, Brendan Fraser and Ileen Gallagher.

The winners of each category will be announced at the Tribeca Film Festival Awards ceremony on April 27

at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

The festival, from April 19-30, will be hosted by Michael Rapaport. 

'Yoga' along with words like 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' are among the top fifteen most popular words in the British society, say scientists who found that the internet age has had a massive influence on the English language.

The need to communicate with a wider-world coupled with a move away from the cosy, close-knit communities of the 90s has dramatically changed the way British people speak over the last two decades, researchers said.

The study, by Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press in the UK, looked at the most characteristic words of informal chit-chat in today's Britain.

The internet age has had a massive influence on the words we use, researchers said.

While in the 1990s we were captivated by 'cassettes', today email, Internet, Facebook, Google, YouTube, website, Twitter, texted, iphone and ipad all top the bill.

'Twenty-four' reflects the open-all-hours community in which we now live far away from a world where the 'cobbler' and 'playschool' were high in our vocabulary.

Words like 'permed', 'comb' and 'tar rah' have fallen out of popularity, according to the study.

'Awesome', which replaced 'marvellous' in an earlier study, is still popular and now joins 'massively' in the top 15.

The word 'croquet' has taken a hit along with expressions such as 'mucking', 'whatsername', 'golly' and 'matey'. 'Boxer', 'crossword' and 'draught' were all in the 1990s' top 15.

An earlier study by the team compared existing data from the 1990s to two million words of then newly collected data from the year 2012.

The researchers have now collected more data and compared the same 1990s collection to a bigger collection comprising five million words spanning 2012-2015.

At the end of this year they will publicly release 11 million words spanning 2012-2016.

Researcher and language expert Robbie Love, from at Lancaster University in the UK, has compiled the top 15 most popular words from the 1990s which have since declined the most drastically and the top 15 words not around in the in the 1990s – which are hugely popular today.

“These findings suggest the things that are most important to British society are indeed reflected in the amount we talk about them,” said Love.

“New technologies like Facebook have really captured our attention, to the extent that, if we're not using it, we're probably talking about it,” he said.

“The new data has shed light on some older words which, similar to “marvellous” and “marmalade” in the previous study, appear to have fallen out of fashion in the intervening years,” he added.

“The study provides a sense of the way society has expanded since the early 1990s and the end of the offline era. Our priorities are moving away from what is happening on our doorsteps,” Love said.

Popular director AR Murugadoss and actor Mahesh Babu have united for yet another big project with the duo recently revealing the title of the movie, SPYdar. The team has also released a motion poster featuring a classy Mahesh Babu, who’s carrying a gun in his hand. 

Minutes after the poster was out, it went viral across social media, thanks to Mahesh Babu's ardent fans. Fans even created many hashtags about the film including  #spyder, @armurugadoss and #spyderfirstlook.

The film will be released in Tamil and Telugu and both the languages carry the same title and the movie will also be dubbed in Malayalam as SPYder.  Promotional activities are in full swing with Mahesh Babu even starring in the cover page of popular Tamil magazine Vikatan.