420+ Gold medals, 60+ Silver and 30+ bronze. YET Unknown, and Unsupported | Bhavisha Singh, Sharmila Gharu and Divya Kathawate. Do these names ring a bell ? We guess not.  What if we told you that these girls have won a combined total of 422 Gold medals, 61 Silver and 30 bronze in local, national and international tournaments. They have made India proud in Karate tournaments in China, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Chinese […]

Sometimes we wonder why God does not grant us a life of ease, free of burdens. Life is filled with many problems. Why do we struggle with health problems, financial, relationship and emotional problems? Here’s an example from nature. The eagle finds the tallest tree or highest mountain ledge to build its nest. The eagle lays the first layer of the nest with sharp objects such as thorns and stones. […]

Chennai: Cheer India to Mars on Indian space agency’s Facebook page and win exclusive collectibles, said ISRO Saturday. With India’s ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission on a crucial phase, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on its Facebook page has announced prizes for interesting comments and videos that shows their love for MOM- Mars Orbiter Mission. The contest, open till Sep 23, is only for Indian nationals and the number of […]

He’s just five-years-old but Karan Singh is already 5ft 7in tall. Karan, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 for being the tallest and heaviest baby, weighing a whopping 7kg and measuring over 2ft – and he hasn’t stopped growing since. Not surprisingly, height runs in the Singh family. Karan’s father Sanjay is 6ft 6in, and his wife, Shweatlana, is even taller, standing at a height […]

The trailer of actor Vikram’s upcoming Tamil magnum opus I crossed over two million views in 24 hours on YouTube. “We have not witnessed such a huge pickup for any trailer. I will set new benchmarks across film industries and we are proud to be associated with it,” Ashok Parwani, head – South, Sony Music India, said in a statement. Directed by Shankar, I has been reportedly made on a budget of over Rs 150 crore. […]

Washington: Al Qaeda, which has announced the creation of a separate wing for India, wants to portray Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an enemy of Islam and as such India should take its threat “very seriously”, a well-known American counter-terror expert said on Friday even as the US tried to downplay the terrorist outfit’s capabilities. “This video, the first from (al Qaeda leader Ayman al-) Zawahiri this year, should be […]

Artificial sweeteners may be helping feed, rather than slow, the global obesity epidemic, according to a provocative new study on the additives used in everything from soft drinks to diet desserts. It found that artificial sweeteners can trigger “dramatic” blood sugar disturbances in both people and mice by altering bacterial populations in the gut. The Israeli scientists, whose findings were released Wednesday by the respected journal Nature, are calling for […]

Kochi: Soon as Kerala-based IPS officer Merin Joseph took charge as ACP in Kochi she went viral on Facebook – for being too attractive. The picture posted by Kochi pazhaya Kochiyalla, a civic issues-related page on Facebook, of a woman called Merin Joseph with the caption New ACP of Kochi, went viral when the post asked the follower ‘How many likes for our new ACP of Kochi’ and the liking […]

SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE: Larry Ellison, co-founder and leader of Oracle Corp for 37 years, stepped aside as chief executive officer on Thursday, to be replaced by co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, raising questions about a job-sharing arrangement that has had a fraught record elsewhere. Ellison and the two new co-CEOs each stressed that nothing would change under the new management structure, with Ellison staying on as executive chairman and chief […]

Research that investigated why bananas are slippery when you step on them has won one of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes. The spoof awards that have become almost as famous as the real Nobels were handed out at their annual ceremony at Harvard University, US. Kiyoshi Mabuchi’s Japanese team measured the friction of banana skin in the lab, and showed why apple and orange peel are not quite so hazardous. […]