US-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies on Tuesday said that it has proposed to link Mumbai and Pune with its ultra-high speed transport system. The company has submitted a proposal in this regard with Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, chairman Bibop Gresta said. Once it gets approval, Hyperloop will do a feasibility study in six to eight months. The company says it can start operations in 38 months. “India is the perfect mix of […]

 A Harvard student’s Facebook post on J Jayalalithaa, the powerful Tamil Nadu chief minister who died on Monday, has been shared over 30,000 times since it was posted on Tuesday morning.   Jayalalithaa, 68, was buried with state honours at Chennai’s Marina Beach yesterday, next to the man who starred with her in many films and brought her into politics, MG Ramachandran or MGR. Lakhs of people paid their respects […]

The theatrical trailer of Transformers: The Last Knight is nothing short of a glimpse into an epic. The larger-than-life opening visuals, accompanied by the legendary voice of Anthony Hopkins, makes one effortlessly turn the pages of centuries that have gone by. The stunning beautiful visuals project a blend of fact and fiction. Fiction in terms of dinobots, the ancient transformers and counterparts of dinosaurs from the Earth. And fact, in […]

Experts said that the poor people will be impacted badly due to demonetization decision. The demonetisation move was going “to damage the economy in long term” and cash-less digital payment system “may not be helpful as being thought”, experts said on Monday. In a discussion on ‘State of the Indian Economy’, organised by India International Centre and Working Group on Alternative Strategies, the experts expressed serious concerns over efficacy of […]

As hundreds of people pour in to pay their last respect to Amma, as I begin to write my tribute to Jayalalithaa, myriad of images come to my mind, the graceful dancer, extremely successful filmstar, the gutsy politician, the woman who dared to successfully challenge a male bastion, a slightly autocratic leader but always the one who never lost her touch with people, with th masses. It is the crowd […]

We come to yoga to feel good but it’s not that simple always. Sometimes we come to battle our worst fears or unleash special courage and endurance which may not have existed before. That’s the kind of possibility you can discover when you step onto the yoga mat. Let me be honest, I did get a mini panic attack when my instructor asked me to try the headstand during my […]

Her mortal remains will be kept in state at the historic Rajaji Hall on Tuesday to enable the public to pay homage. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is no more. Seventy-four days after being admitted to hospital here, the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam passed away at 11.30 p.m. on Monday. She did not respond to emergency life support treatment administered after she suffered a […]

Scientists have unlocked a 51.7-million-year old genetic secret to a landmark theory proposed by English naturalist Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago. Researchers have identified the cluster of genes responsible for reproductive traits in the Primula flower. Darwin hypothesised that some plant species with two distinct forms of flower, where male and female reproductive organs were of differing lengths, had evolved that way to promote out-crossing by insect pollinators. […]

An Indian-origin Oxford graduate has sued the university for £1m claiming the “appallingly bad” and “boring” teaching resulted in him getting a second class degree and in turn led to loss of earnings during his career as a lawyer.   Faiz Siddiqui, 38, studied modern history at Brasenose College at the university and accuses its staff of “negligent” teaching of his specialist subject course on Indian imperial history, which led […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who is undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospital in Chennai following a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, has been put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to support her heart-lung activity. The 68-year-old leader was in a critical condition following the cardiac arrest and is being treated by a team of specialists at the hospital where she has been admitted since late September. Here’s what you […]