Last month, France’s famous waxwork museum, Musée Grévin, opened its first Asian outpost in Seoul, South Korea. The new museum’s focus is firmly on the world of entertainment. As a result, waxworks of global icons like Michael Jackson and Madonna rub shoulders with the likes of actress Choi Ji-Woo — star of one of the original TV series, Winter Sonata — who has quite a fan following in Japan. India, […]
NEW DELHI: It is still not sure if the government would be able to pass the debatable Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill in the Rajya Sabha even in its last leg of the Monsoon Session or not. Opposition Congress continues to disrupt the session demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response on the Vyapam scam and Lalit Modi issue, while the ruling NDA awaits the passage of the Bill. First […]
“It always upsets me when people waste food. “We have thousands of people in India who go hungry every day. “One day, I asked the waiter to pack half of the biryani I had ordered at a restaurant. “I gave that packet of untouched food to an old lady who was sitting outside the restaurant. “I still cannot forget the smile on her face.” That’s how AG Padmanabhan started his […]
His name may not ring a bell, but chances are you know some of the products Google’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, has worked on, including the Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system. Pichai, 43, was named chief executive officer of the Internet titan Monday, as Google unveiled a new corporate structure creating an umbrella company dubbed Alphabet. Pichai will oversee the biggest company under that umbrella, which will still […]
Pupils’ shape and size can reveal whether your kitten is a hunter or the hunted, research shows. The study also said that species with pupils that are vertical slits are more likely to be ambush predators that are active both day and night. “For species that are active both night and day, like domestic cats, slit pupils provide the dynamic range needed to help them see in dim light yet […]
New Delhi: Had it not been for the raw courage of newly-recruited BSF trooper Rockey, who laid his life fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the border guarding force would have suffered more injurious in the audacious attack. The 27-year-old constable of the forces’ 65th Battalion emptied his entire magazine containing about 40 bullets when the two heavily-armed militants attacked a Border Security Force convoy and a dark-green […]
HARDA, MADHYA PRADESH: At least 27 people have died and 40 are injured after two passenger trains derailed within minutes of each other while crossing flooded tracks in Madhya Pradesh late on Tuesday night. More than 300 people were rescued overnight. Six coaches of the Kamayani Express running from Mumbai to Varanasi derailed at around 11:30 pm while crossing a culvert near the Machak river close to Harda, about 160 […]
A Muslim school boy in Bangalore says he felt humiliated when he was asked to recite verses from a Hindu prayer. Activists say his allegation is a small pointer to rising saffronisation in Karnataka. A 15-year-old Muslim boy studying in a south Bengaluru school has retreated into a shell and needs counselling. And it is all because of a prayer. Naushad Kashimji’s (name changed) school adopted a few Sanskrit shlokas […]
Irfan Pathan earned praises from television dance reality show judges on ‘debut’ as he began his journey from a discarded India cricketer to a dancer. Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan made a sensational debut on a television dance reality show — Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8 on Sunday. Irfan rocked the show with his performance on an Akshay Kumar hit number – ‘Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita’ from the movie ‘Rowdy Rathore’. […]
The heartbreaking story of a child soldier comes to Netflix in the teaser for True Detective director Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation. Idris Elba stars as the charismatic and brutal leader of an African child army, who wages a campaign of terror on a local government, reported Rolling Stone magazine. Beasts of No Nation is told through the eyes of a young boy named Agu (Abraham Attah), who is […]
