Tokyo: A video showing the fast and meticulous cleaning process of Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train, has gone viral on the internet with over 2.5 million views in the last few weeks. The video, titled “7-Minute Miracle,” is shot by New York-based journalist Charli James and was posted by the Japanese government on its YouTube account. It has registered over 2,651,000 views till Monday, and become the most-viewed video on the […]
Police are investigating West Coast poultry producer Foster Farms after the release of a video showing chickens being tormented and handled violently by the company’s employees. The undercover video was shot in the company’s slaughterhouse in Fresno, California by Mercy for Animals, a Los Angeles-based animal rights group that opposes meat consumption. In the video, chickens are thrown upside down and slammed into metal shackles. Employees punch live chickens […]
Four siblings who killed themselves after they were abandoned by their parents left a note saying, ‘today is the day to go’, according to reports. The boy and three girls, aged between 5 and 13 were unable to be saved after they all drank poison, police say. The boy and three girls were hospitalised after taking the shocking incident in Bijie City in China’s southwestern province Guizhou on Tuesday. […]
Advice to interns: work hard and make your mark. And if you can discover a new planet while you’re at it, you could also be pushing the boundaries of our knowledge. Believe it or not, a 15-year-old boy did just that, according to Keele University in England, UK. While undertaking work experience at the university, Tom Wagg noticed a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet […]
Bill Gates is something of a model for education skeptics. Gates – like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey – dropped out of college. If they didn’t need a college degree, the skeptics suggest, maybe you don’t need one, either. Gates has just published a blog post with something of a reply: Yes, you do need one. “Although I dropped out of college and got lucky pursuing a […]
A new cliff-side glass walkway has opened to the public in eastern China with an added novelty factor – it plays musical notes as visitors walk. The path stretches for 180m (590ft) along the side of a mountain in Shiniuzhai National Geopark, and features special double-layered glass, the China Daily website reports. It’s fitted with pressure sensors which play 70 different notes, so anyone brave enough to cross the path […]
PATHANKOT: A pigeon which crossed the Indo-Pak border into India’s Pathankot area was captured and detained for being a ‘suspected spy’ on Thursday, according to a report published on The Times of India website. The development comes two days after India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) issued an alert to the Punjab Police regarding suspected militant activity in the area. A stamped message and a wire-like object on the ‘intruder’, which landed […]
Beauty has gone Bollywood. In the latest installment of Cut.com’s “100 Years of Beauty” series, we see the dramatic and colorful fashion trends of India. Model and dancer Trisha Miglani demonstrates how hairstyles, veils, bindis and Mehendi styles have evolved since 1910 — always mimicking Bollywood heroines of the era, from Sharmila Tagore to Katrina Kaif. Please follow and like us:
You would think that Bill Gates, the ever-so-friendly richest man in the world, wouldn’t be afraid of much. But as he recently told Ezra Klein at Vox, he does have some major fears for humanity. “I rate the chance of a nuclear war within my lifetime as being fairly low,” says Gates. “I rate the chance of a widespread epidemic, far worse than Ebola, in my lifetime, as well […]
1. Jawahar Lal Nehru – 16 years 286 days 2. Indira Gandhi – 15 years 91 days 3. Rajiv Gandhi – 5 years 32 days 4. Narasimha Rao – 4 years 11 months 5. Manmohan Singh – 10 years 4 days….. In these total 57 years, these people could not get Achche din” Pappu wants achche din in just 12 months. Such a Shame Double Standard thinking…… We have elected […]
