Five years after the release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, we finally have the trailer to it’s sequel, Alice Through The Looking Glass. Based on Lewis Caroll’s much loved books but with a far darker tone, the film will have Mia Wasikowska reprising her role as Alice and Johnny Depp will be back as the eccentric Mad Hatter. The trailer begins with an ominous tone of a ticking […]

Stressing that India must follow a multi-disciplinary approach that allows students to learn and seek knowledge holistically, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that education must deepen their linkage with society and develop a scientific temper in them. “Our institutions must impart education to students that helps expand their intellect, form their character, instil in them a spirit of service and love for the motherland. It must equip them to […]

Harjit Sajjan, a former police officer and veteran of three military deployments to Afghanistan, was named Canada’s new minister of defense on Wednesday, bringing first-hand expertise to one of the country’s top cabinet positions. Sajjan will oversee an anticipated change in Canada’s military involvement in the battle against militants in Syria and Iraq. Newly sworn-in Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already said he wants to end Canada’s air strikes […]

It is a well know fact that global warming poses one of the greatest threats to humanity as it leads to rising sea levels, floods and droughts. Now the latest problem that could be added to this list is a low sex drive that would hit the human birth rate in the long run. Research suggests that, as temperatures increase, people may feel less inclined to have sex or as […]

Moshe Kai Cavalin has two college degrees, but he’s too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he’s too young to drive a car alone. Life is filled with contrasts for Cavalin, a 17-year-old from San Gabriel, California, who has dashed by major milestones as his age seems to lag behind. He graduated from community college at age 11. Four years later, he had a bachelor’s in math from the […]

Have you ever encountered any weird creature or imagined about it? Well, some of us might have imagined but would have never thought that such creature could be spotted on earth. Weirdest creatures like The Pope Lick Monster, The Jersey Devil, The Flatwood Monster, Huge Jellyfish-like creature, a weird chicken-like alien corpse and Green jelly-like worm have been spotted on earth. What do you think from where these creatures came […]

Rumours about the world would come to an end have been doing the rounds for quite a while now. While these rumours have been swirling for years and no predicted apocalyptic events have occurred so far, theories abound as to how this will happen likely. There have been drastic changes in the weather as a result of global warming and climate change, but external forces like meteorites or space debris […]

The sudden spate of increasing instances of religious intolerance set me thinking. At a time and age where religion has been reduced to mere festivals and a small form of worship once a day or perhaps once a week, why should it matter so much that lives are being lost, political battles are being waged and even cultural legacy is being interfered with in the name of religion? But is […]

As tension mounts in the South China Sea (SCS), where the US just sent a guided-missile destroyer to challenge China’s fanciful 9-dashed line claim, India is showing it is open to not only aggressively seeking freedom of navigation and overflight throughout the region but also ensuring disputes are resolved in keeping with international laws. Top government officials here said it was “on purpose” that India mentioned the South China Sea […]

There were no tracks that we could see and no landmarks in the distance to which he was pointing the vehicle to. We were getting deep into the desert and there was not a soul between us and the horizon. The road disappeared and we were surrounded by old, craggy red rocks, the kind I suppose you would expect to see on, well, Mars. Sandeep Sreedharan shares his wonderful visit […]