“You toy with wrathful forces,” says Andrew Scott’s Inspector Turpin in the first trailer for Victor Frankenstein starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe. The warning is addressed of course, to the titular Dr Frankenstein, guilty as charged. This new Frankenstein is like nothing we’ve seen before: All razzle-dazzle and flash-bang, injected with a heavy dose of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. And since that series is on a hiatus apparently, this […]

Twenty-seven people, including four foreigners, were killed and over 80 others injured in a powerful bomb blast inside a hugely popular Lord Brahma temple in a crowded area in Bangkok on Monday in the first such attack in the Thai capital. The blast, which the government believed was aimed at damaging economy and tourism, occurred inside the Erawan Shrine dedicated to Lord Brahma in the downtown Chidlom district, creating panic […]

New York: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the top 20 richest people in the world of technology, according to an inaugural list by Forbes that has been topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Mr Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes’ first ever list of ‘100 Richest People In Tech’, followed by Mr Nadar on the 14th spot. Two Indian-origin […]

Apple spends nearly $700,000 (about Rs 44616215) a year to protect CEO Tim Cook. Patently Apple pulled the figure from Apple’s Schedule 14A report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In full, the report stated (emphasis our own): “This amount represents: (i) the Company’s contributions to Mr. Cook’s account under its 401(k) plan in the amount of $15,600; (ii) Company-paid term life insurance premiums in the amount of $2,520; […]

HIROSHIMA: Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Thursday as Japan marked 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today on whether the total destruction it caused was justified. Prime minister Shinzo Abe and foreign delegates were among the tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park to observe a moment of silence at 8:15 am local time (2315 GMT), when the […]

The animal’s hard shell deflected at least one of three bullets, which then struck the man’s jaw. A man was wounded after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his face. Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said the man, who was not identified, went outside his home in Marietta, southwest of Texarkana, at around 3 a.m. on Thursday […]

New York: An eight-year-old American has become the world`s youngest recipient of a transplant of both hands, Children`s Hospital of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday. Surgeons operated for 10 hours to carry out the incredibly complicated surgery on Baltimore native Zion Harvey. He previously had both his hands and feet amputated and had a kidney transplant following a major infection. The smiling, precocious youngster had learned to eat, write and even […]

Tehran: In what highlights the persistent bitterness in relations between Tehran and Washington despite a historic nuclear accord signed recently, Supreme Leader Ayatollah al Khamenei in a tweet threatened US President Barack Obama, claiming Iran will defeat US in case a war took place. The provocative tweet posted from @khamenei_ir also showed a silhouette picture of a suited man wearing a US flag lapel and a red tie that apparently […]

TORONTO: A 22-year-old Indo-Canadian has been missing and police believe he may have been killed and his body encased in concrete slab and dumped or buried on some rural property in the country’s southern Ontario. Shawn Kapadia from Mississauga may have been killed on July 5 and investigators believe his body was moved from Toronto to a home on O’Reilly’s Road South in Ontario. He was reported missing by his […]

The way actor-director Rajat Kapoor found a producer for his critically acclaimed film Ankhon Dekhi is now a Bollywood lore. Frustrated with producers not accepting his script on which he had worked for three years, he sent out a tweet, stating his anger and disillusionment. He said he had had enough and will now make a play instead. Manish Mundra, once a soft drink seller in Deoghar, Bihar, and then […]