NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its first ever dive through the gap between planet Saturn and its rings on April 26, going where no ship has gone before and beginning its Grand Finale. Now, NASA has released a new video taken by the spacecraft as it swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings As Cassini make its first plunge through the […]
The first trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has been unveiled and it sets the stage for the mystic and brutal battle between the Gunslinger and the Man in Black. Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey lead the epic good-vs-evil struggle in the film, reported Digital Spy. The film has been directed by Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, who finally made a Dark Tower movie […]
“My fingerprints and iris are mine and my own. The state cannot take away my body,” a lawyer told India’s Supreme Court last week. Shyam Divan was arguing a crucial petition challenging a new law that makes it compulsory for people to submit a controversial biometric-based personal identification number while filing income tax returns. Defending this law, the government’s top law officer told the court on Tuesday that an individual’s […]
Humans will need to colonise another planet within the next 100 years to survive climate change, asteroid strikes and overpopulation, according to renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking. In a documentary, Expedition New Earth — part of the BBC’s new science season Tomorrow’s World — Mr Hawking and his former student Christophe Galfard will travel the world to find out how humans could survive in outer space. In the series, Mr […]
Before he met Michelle, former United States President Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. But then politics got in the way. These revelations have been made in a new Obama biography titled Rising Star. Its author, David J Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who won the prize for his biography of Dr Marin Luthor King, talks of Obama’s rise to the top. “Garrow portrays Obama as a man […]
An estimated USD 770 billion in black money entered India during 2005-2014, US-based think tank Global Financial Integrity (GFI) has said in its latest report. Nearly USD 165 billion in illicit money exited the country during the same period, the global financial watchdog said. During 2014 alone, about USD 101 billion black money entered the country while USD 23 billion exited, the report added. “Illicit financial flows (IFFs) from developing […]
There have been multiple films that revolve around the infamous ‘friend-zone’. Cases in point are Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Ayan Mukerji’s Wake Up Sid and Shakun Batra’s Ekk Main Aur Ekk Tu. The upcoming Half Girlfriend, directed by Mohit Suri, also plays with the same word in a different manner. But Ajay K Pannalal’s romantic comedy Behen Hogi Teri explores an area that was discovered way before […]
Located at the cross roads of Asia and Europe, Cyprus marries modern comforts with ancient heritage and its turquoise blue beaches, green mountains, rich culture and mouth-watering food will make you return to the sun-kissed Mediterranean country again. In Greek mythology, Cyprus was the birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love. So the picturesque island could be a perfect wedding destination for Indians, say authorities here who are […]
The world celebrated International Labour Day on May 1. Newspapers and television channels marked the day with special features, catchy reports and many other programs. While we all understand the importance of the day and many can even rattle out dates and facts about the International Labour organisation and its objectives, have we really grasped the whole concept, especially in the Indian context. Surpisingly while on the one hand we […]
After winning the top spot in the first round of France’s presidential election, centrist Emmanuel Macron brought his wife Brigitte on stage before cheering supporters and said, “Without her, I wouldn’t be me.” She has been in her 39-year-old husband’s life since he was 15 — first as a teacher, then lover and now as a partner in his pursuit to become modern France’s youngest president. Elegant and slim, the […]
