Online purchases made through mobile phones are steadily increasing in India and are likely to touch $40 million in 2016 from the current $30 million, indicates a new joint study by Assocham and Grant Thornton. According to the study, a significantly low (19 percent) but fast-growing internet population of 243 million in 2014 is an indicator of the sector’s huge growth potential in India. This underlines the potential of internet […]
Logan: Scientists claimed to have discovered the world’s first known venomous frogs with spikes on their heads in Brazil. Scientists have long known of poisonous frogs, but the two species of frog discovered in the wilds of Brazil have been found to be capable of injecting poison into predators using horns on their head. According to the study that describes the species, these frogs have well-developed delivery mechanisms, utilising […]
Do you know this man? No? Even I didn’t, till I met him. Now that I have, I will never forget him. He is a man who makes India proud. No, he is not a celebrity or a sportsperson who has won medals for the country. Fifty-year-old Raju Dabhade is the creator of the game of roll ball that will see its third World Championship in December, 2015, in Pune. […]
If you are a dad before the age of 25, you could be at an increased the risk of an early death in middle age, a study has indicated. The study said that men who fathered a child in early life had poorer health and died earlier than men who experienced fatherhood relatively later. Family environment, early socioeconomic circumstances and genes could explain this association, researchers noted. “The findings provide […]
A Japanese city has vowed to preserve a pine tree that survived the country’s devastating tsunami but is now rotting, it’s reported. The tree withstood the enormous wave which struck the coastal city of Kesennuma in 2011, killing hundreds of local people. It was badly damaged in the disaster, losing most of its branches, but its new shape attracted many visitors who thought it resembled a dragon. The tree was […]
Multiple reports now indicate that a weather-battered aircraft section found earlier today on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is part of a flaperon — a control surface that acts both as a flap and an aileron — from a Boeing 777. The only Boeing 777 that is presently unaccounted for is Malaysia Airlines 370, which has been missing since it disappeared from radar in March of 2014 with 239 […]
Ottawa: An Indian-origin budding independent film producer, whose recent film attracted millions of dollars, is being seen as the next famous person to come out of Canada, media reports said. Komal Minhas has produced “Dream, Girl” — a feature-length film that has fetched millions in investor funding and has already created much excitement in the media, Daily Herald News reported on Monday. Minhas has partnered with US director and co-producer […]
China is frantically giving finishing touches to world’s largest radio telescope designed to find signs of alien life following NASA’s recent discovery of ‘Earth 2.0’ with the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. While NASA basked in the success of discovering an earth-like planet around 1,400 light years away with Kepler 452b, China announced that it has started assembling the world’s largest radio telescope, which is the size of 30 football fields […]
A giant flower, said to be one of the world’s oldest and largest species, has bloomed at a Tokyo park for the first time in five years, it’s reported. The 2-metre-high (6.5 feet) Titan arum rarely flowers and is notoriously difficult to propagate. The Jindai botanical gardens in the city of Chofu have extended their opening hours especially to allow hundreds of visitors to see the flower, which only blooms […]
Washington: Behold the amazing view of our Earth! Recently, a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first stunning view of the entire sun-lit side of Earth. DSCOVR is equipped with the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) that took the new photo which has been clicked from 1.6 million kms away in space on July 6. NASA ✔@NASA Our ‘EPIC’ camera on @NOAASatellites’ #DSCOVR […]
