Bill Gates has drunk a glass of water made from human faeces, to showcase technology he said could provide clean water in the developing world. The Microsoft founder said he wanted to begin sending processing plants around the world after tests later this year. The project was welcomed by WaterAid, which said that it could particularly help in urban areas. According to the charity, some 748 million people worldwide lack […]
This is the flamingo season. But, it looks the Pink Wall in the wetlands along the shores in Pulicat and Point Calimere, is thinning down. Two decades ago, there were a million birds flying into Point Calimere, half-a-lakh of which were flamingos. Similarly, the bird census in Pulicat, a decade ago, used to reveal a count of over a lakh flamingos. Last week, the Nature Trust volunteers spotted about […]
Amitabh Bachchan is ready to enthrall his fans with his upcoming venture `Shamitabh`. The film has already raised the curiosity bars—all thanks to its peculiar or rather somewhat familiar name (its sounds like Amitabh) and that is why the trailer was highly anticipated. Finally, the South superstar Dhanush starrer `Shamitabh` trailer is out. In the trailer, we get to see the different avatars of Dhanush that we may have never […]
Giancarlo Murisciano recently posted a picture on Facebook on New Year’s Eve that broke the hearts of people around the world. It shows him cradling his 87-year-old grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. It was liked 400,000 times and shared 37,000 times, as it shows that real people still suffer from this terrible disease. Giancarlo wrote that he shared the picture “without shame or fear” to remind people in the new […]
Aviation website AirlineRatings.com has just released its annual list of the world’s 10 safest airlines. Once again, Australian airline Qantas grabs the top spot. “Qantas continues to lead the industry with safety innovations and its fleet is now the youngest — 7.9 years — it has been since the airline was privatized in 1995,” AirlineRatings.com editor Geoffrey Thomas tells CNN. He says the airline is an industry benchmark for best […]
Las Vegas: Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer TCL has announced that it will unveil a new television model with a curved screen which uses ultra high definition 4K technology and measures 110 inches, putting it in the Guinness record books for the world’s largest television. In a statement Monday on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here, the company also revealed its plan to show another 55-inch 4K television […]
He is famous for his aggressive politics and curt actions. But did anyone know that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has a penchant for photography? Uddhav’s interest in photography can be seen in his various shots, which range from wildlife, landscapes, and portraits to infra-red photography, which requires a special understanding of the subject since it is a mix of art and technology. The Sena chief, who takes time from […]
CBI on Monday raised a question mark on NGOs in the country, informing the Supreme Court that of the more than 22 lakh NGOs in various states, less than 10% had filed their balance sheets on grants received and their expenditures with the authorities. CBI collated data from 20 states and seven UTs, and informed the court that 22,45,655 NGOs were operating in the states. Of these only 2,234,78 NGOs, […]
Early on 4 January, as the morning sun lazily crept its way up over the horizon of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first of 665 valiant competitors crossed the start line of the 37th Dakar Rally. They’ve signed themselves up for two weeks of treacherous, torturous trudging across 5,661 miles of South America. It’s a loop that incorporates the most inhospitable parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, where man and motorised […]
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has stirred a controversy with remarks that every child is born a Muslim as he locked horns with right-wing Hindu outfits over their ‘ghar wapsi’ programme. “Every child is born a Muslim. His parents and society convert him to other religions,” Owaisi said, apparently in a tit-for-tat to hardline Hindu organisations which have been claiming that ancestors of all Indians were Hindus. “Islam is the real […]
