Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday. The amount of plastic found in this area, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is “increasing exponentially,” according to the surveyors, who used two planes and 18 boats to assess the ocean […]

The Spy Who Dumped Me, starring Golden Globe nominee Mila Kunis (Bad Moms) and Emmy Award winner Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live). Directed by Susanna Fogel. Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are not spies but with assassins following them around, the women are forced to pick up some action moves and it lands them in a few funny situations. Also starring in the comedy are Outlander’s Sam Heughan, Justin Theroux […]

The graduating students of Textile and Apparel Design, Institute of Fashion Technology, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara will be highlighting their collection through KAIROS 2018 on March 24, 2018, which is the culmination of their three years affiliation with the Institute and because of their perennial hard work. It is an academic event that is a visual treat with models sashaying down […]

Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised for a “major breach of trust,” admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm. “I am really sorry that happened,” Zuckerberg said of the scandal involving data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has a “responsibility” to protect its users’ data, he said in a Wednesday interview on CNN. […]

Acer announced the launch of a new gaming desktop named Predator Orion 9000, under its premium Predator gaming series. The latest Acer gaming desktop features an Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads and up to two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti graphics cards as a highlight. New Acer Predator Orion 9000 has been priced at Rs 3,19,999 and will be available for purchase […]

March 21 is celebrated as Navroz in many parts of the world as the beginning of the new year. People in Kashmir too celebrate it as the beginning of the new agricultural season with seeds being sown and farms made ready. On this day some Kashmiris go for a “new” life, they start a course of “leech therapy”. Many people think attaching live leeches to the human body can cure […]

Indian professionals prefer home-grown technology and mobile internet companies like Directi, Flipkart and One97 Communications (Paytm) over global tech and e-commerce sites like Google and Amazon as their workplace, revealed a new LinkedIn report on Wednesday. The annual ranking highlights the 25 companies in the country that are most sought-after by professionals. The report is based on proprietary LinkedIn data and billions of actions by more than 546 million professionals […]

Under the Silver Lake, starring Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) and Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road). From writer-director David Robert Mitchell comes a sprawling, playful and unexpected mystery-comedy detective thriller about the Dream Factory and its denizens—dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter-pop groups, nightlife personalities, It girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors, and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all. […]

In 2004, Venkat Iyer decided to quit his hectic IT job and take up organic farming in Peth, a village near Mumbai. The former IBM executive recounts the journey in a new book, Moong over Microchips: Adventures of A Techie-Turned-Farmer. Iyer spoke to Sonam Joshi about his encounters with local corruption, the reasons for farmer distress, and why they are in protest mode. What was the most difficult part of […]

When music producer Pete Cannon shared the video of the advert for the latest model of the iPhone series on social media, the soundtrack struck some Bollywood buffs as familiar. It was the legendary Indian music maverick RD Burman’s unmistakable trumpet tune from his composition – Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe from the 1980 film, The Burning Train, a multi-starrer featuring Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Parveen Babi, Hema […]