Gandhi’s pencil portrait sells for £32,500

London: A previously unknown pencil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, drawn from life and inscribed by him in 1931, was auctioned here on Tuesday for £32,500 — four times its estimated price. Some handwritten letters by Gandhi to the family of Sarat Chandra Bose, elder brother of Subhas Chandra Bose, fetched £37,500 pounds. Pti 

Twitter adds new filters to tackle trolls     

San Francisco: In a fresh bid to tackle trolls spewing hateful content on its platform, micro-blogging platform Twitter has added filters to mute unwanted tweets from a user’s feed. To enable these filters, a user must access the ‘Advanced filters’ option from the ‘Settings’ on the ‘Notification’ timeline. ians 

Childhood tag turns into ‘extreme sport’     

London: A childhood game played in school playgrounds the world over, tag, has been transformed by a British enthusiast into an extreme sport, attracting world athletes and a James Bond movie actor. Fast moves and dodging are essential in a game of “Chase Tag”, the new sport which sees players race around obstacles trying to catch each other. AFP