The 500-page United States Select Committee on Intelligence’s damning report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture tactics lists numerous instances of rights violations. While it is difficult to point out every ghastly detail here, lists at least 9 instances He spent 266 hours inside coffin-size confinement box Detainee was made to wear a diaper; exposed to dangerously loud music Detainees were shackled to the walls, kept in darkness, given buckets for […]

Psy’s Gangnam Style may be so 2012, but it’s still raking in the hits. So much so in fact that YouTube no longer knows how to count them! The viral hit video by the South Korean pop star that has become a household name and dance party staple across the world, has got so many views, that Google no longer knows how to count them! In a blog post Google […]

 President Barack Obama Friday named Ashton Carter, a former Pentagon second-in command, who once described India as destined to be America’s security partner, as his new defense secretary in place of ousted Chuck Hagel. Announcing the nomination of the Rhodes Scholar, with a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University and a degree in medieval history from Yale, in the Roosevelt room of the White House, Obama described him as […]

In a TV show called “Avatar: The Last Airbender” a character is trying to reach his spiritual potential, but can’t due to emotional and psychological blockages he has.  He is then guided through the emotions associated with the 7 energy centers of the body and is show how to open them up to achieve his highest state of being.  This is great not only for children, but for anyone of […]

New Delhi: A suspected asteroid blast was recorded on November 5, 2014, by a surveillance camera installed at Xilinhot South expressway toll station of Inner Mongolia, Northern China. The dark night of the city was lit up by the blast. Video footage at the expressway toll station shows that around four o’clock in the morning, a sudden white flash blazed for about four seconds across the night sky. Li Fanchao, […]

Foreign institutional investors warmed up to Asian equities in November as the region recorded net inflows of USD 5.3 billion, out of which India attracted USD 1.4 billion, says a report by HSBC. According to the global financial services major, after two consecutive months of sell-offs, FIIs have warmed up to Asian equities and all markets have received positive flows in November. Among Asian economies, China regained the top position […]

Telling lies is a very bad habit that many people have fallen prey to. People often lie to escape from speaking the truth and view it as something that is important for survival. Unfortunately, most humans aren’t very good at detecting lies; however, there are a few simple things you can do to determine whether or not a person is lying.  Just asking the right questions and observing a person’s […]

One of Canada’s most iconic rainforests is under threat as signs of  logging have been discovered in the heart of the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island. One of Canada’s most iconic and grandest old-growth temperate rainforests is under threat as signs of potential logging have been discovered in the heart of the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island. Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) activists TJ Watt and Jackie Korn recently […]

Extremely low levels of radioactive cesium-134 have been detected about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka in northern California, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) revealed. The unexpected traces have reached the California coast as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant  meltdown that occurred following the earthquake that hit Japan in March of 2011.Workers were unable to cool the reactors which eventually exploded, leaking […]

You must have seen so many drag races, where results turned out to be unexpected (a more powerful car losing to a lesser one), but none of those would have been half as exciting as this one. That is because of the fact that this race was not between two sportscars or supercars, but it was a cycle that took on a Ferrari. Built by Arnold Neracher, the cycle shown […]