Hyderabad: Hyderabad may be become the city in India to be entirely covered by Google Street View after the Internet services giant Google gets permission from the union home ministry. The company agreed to a request made by Telangana government in this regard, said a statement by the state government here on Tuesday. Telangana Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao, who is currently on a visit to the US, held […]

NEW YORK: A Picasso masterpiece fetched more than $179 million in New York on Monday, smashing the world record for the most expensive art sold at auction in what was dubbed the “sale of the century.” A bronze statue by Alberto Giacometti also broke the record for most expensive sculpture sold at auction, fetching more than $141 million at the same sale in a packed auction room at Christie’s. The […]

  Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861. A renowned scholar, poet, writer, playwright and novelist, Tagore’s contributions to Indian culture are endless. He’s one of those artists who introduced the best of Indian culture to the west. On his 155th birth anniversary, here are 8 reasons why the legend that is Rabindranath Tagore must be remembered always. 1. He was the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize […]

  For all those who think they can get away with quietly dropping that discarded gum wrapper or empty crisp packet on the street because nobody will know you’ve done it, beware. There’s a chance a huge poster with your face on it could end up all over the city, shaming, if not naming, you. A new campaign called ‘The Face of Litter’ has been launched in Hong Kong as […]

  LONDON: Ever felt like watching yourself from the sidelines? Scientists have just replicated that feeling in the lab. Neuroscientists have created an out-of-body illusion in people placed inside a br8ain scanner and used that illusion to perceptually ‘teleport’ the participants to different locations in a room. Scientists from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have shown that the perceived location of the bodily self can be decoded from activity patterns in specific […]

  New Delhi: Bollywood celebrities like Karan Johar and Bipasha Basu are “emotionally charged” and “touched” after watching the trailer of Mohit Suri’s next directorial “Hamari Adhuri Kahani” , which came out on Monday. The three-minute long trailer shows domestic violence and unrequited love. It begins with Rajkummar Rao, sporting an untidy look, rushing out of his house in anger and Vidya Balan in tears begging him to go inside. […]

London: Britain`s new princess has been named as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kensington Palace said on its Twitter account on Monday. The daughter of Prince William and his wife Kate will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, the palace said. Elite British troops gave a gun salute to Prince William and Kate’s new baby princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana by firing volleys to mark her birth. The gun […]

New Delhi: Waste tyres can be a great environmental concern but a professor at a Japanese university hailing from Assam has developed earthquake resistant techniques using them which he says can be effective and affordable means to minimise impact on buildings. These techniques can be implemented all over the world, especially in Asia, says Hemanta Hazarika, professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Kyushu University in Fukuoka. Hazarika, who […]

Yeli Village: A once-barren bank of the Ye river in central China now has 12,000 trees thanks to unlikely but dedicated gardeners: two friends, one blind and one without arms. The story of Jia Wenqi, 53, with no arms, and his blind friend, Jia Haixia, 54, is one of perseverance, environmental awakening and of finding a path in a country where it is difficult for the disabled to find jobs. […]

Beijing: A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China. The Broad Sustainable Building Co put up the rectangular, glass-and-steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha using a modular method, assembling three floors per day, company vice president Xiao Changgeng said. The company, which has ambitions to assemble the world’s tallest […]