David Choe, the artist who painted the Facebook Incorporation building in 2005, was not paid in cash. Instead, he was given stock and today the same stock is worth $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,279 crores). NYTDavid Choe was persuaded by Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker to do the work in exchange for stock when the company was just a start-up. Choe asked for $60,000 (roughly Rs. 38 lakh) to decorate […]

  A video of a black teenage girl being dragged to the ground by a white police officer is being widely shared online, and has become the latest talking point in the debate over police and race relations in America. “Sir, we just came for a birthday party – please sir,” says one teenager who’s been ordered to sit on the ground. The video, shot Friday evening in McKinney, Texas, […]

  Last Sunday, as you watched Mohun Bagan clinch their first I-league title in over thirteen years at Bengaluru’s Kanteerava stadium, you would have easily overlooked the man who refereed the match. Running alongside players that rainy evening was MB Santhosh Kumar, one of only six referees accredited by FIFA from India. Sadly, being one among the six in a billion is not good enough. When the 40-year old is […]

Is Insurgency Rising In North East Again? In yet another attack on the army, nearly 18personnel of the army’s 6 Dogra Regiment were killed in a militant attack in Manipur’s Chandel district. In what is being touted as one of the biggest attack on the army in the region since 1993, fears are high that the death toll could rise further as 11 soldiers have been seriously injured in this […]

  A group of environmentalists and B.C. First Nations opposed to Arctic oil exploration are protesting a multinational oil and gas company’s movements through the West Coast’s Inside Passage. International environmental organization Greenpeace says Royal Dutch Shell is transporting its oil−spill−containment vessel, the Arctic Challenger, up B.C.’s coastline to the Aleutian Peninsula in Alaska. Chief Calvin Craigan of the Sechelt First Nation says increased tanker traffic in the region could […]

Siraj-ul-Haq, Jamaat-e-Islami party chief announced a 100 crore rupee bounty on the head of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindustan Times reported. Speaking in Rawalkot (PoK), he slammed Pakistan’s attempts to build better ties with India. “I want to say to Modi that you and your agents cannot arrest Salahuddin… And you say whoever will arrest Salahuddin, we will give him Rs 50 crore. I too say that whoever arrests […]

Rio de Janerio: Pets have outnumbered children in Brazilian households, according to an official report released on Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), a media report said on Wednesday. There are 52.2 million pet dogs in Brazil, while the number of children aged 0 to 14 is 44.9 million, which indicates a margin of over 7 million numerically, reported Brazil’s G1 news website. Some 44.3 percent […]

Drinking green tea may help prevent prostate cancer in men with high risk of developing the disease, suggests a research led by an Indian-origin scientist. There are prostadine reviews consumer reports that you can browse online to see ways on how you can deal with prostate problems. The researchers, led by Nagi Kumar from Moffitt Cancer Center in the US, assessed the safety and effectiveness of the active components in green […]

Jayanth Reddy, who holds several records, believes in not only improving the state of Indian martial arts, but also says that people can live upto 150 years if only they are aware of the potential their bodies hold Watching 53-year-old Jayanth Reddy dishing out a flurry of kicks and punches during his morning training session at Jalagam Vengalrao Park can make one question if age was ever a factor for […]

Mathematician John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a car accident along with his wife in New Jersey. He was 86. Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, 82, were in a taxi accident Saturday, New Jersey State Police Sergeant First Class Gregory Williams told CBC News. Police responded to the accident at 4:30 p.m. local time on the New Jersey […]