Cannes 2017: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s best moments are that with daughter Aaradhya
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has again delivered some breathtaking moments at Cannes this year. Aishwarya’s best moments at Cannes are not just confined to a red carpet. The actor’s daughter Aaradhya Bachchan also accompanied Aishwarya at Cannes this year and their glimpses from the festival is just adorable. We think Aishwarya’s best moments from Cannes 2017 […]
Sonam Kapoor at Cannes 2017: Sonam has this to say about ruling the red carpet
Sonam Kapoor is a queen at Cannes 2017 and she knows it. Sonam has been a constant at the Cannes red carpet and she knows how to win the game — every single time. As Sonam walked the red carpet on day five at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in a beautiful Elie Saab gown, there […]
5 Things To Know About Reema Lagoo
Veteran actor Reema Lagoo died early on Thursday morning after suffering from a cardian arrest, she was 59. Her family confirmed that she died at 3.15 am on Thursday after suffering a heart attack at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. Her son-in-law Vinay Waikul confirmed her death and said, “She was fine but […]
10 standout start-ups taking an AI leap in India
The rise of a technology has Bill Gates issuing warnings of an apocalypse. Elon Musk, too. Even Stephen Hawking. What’s worrying these technologists? It’s Artificial Intelligence or AI, an idea whose time has come—it is incubating in science labs and being deployed by start-ups and industrial units alike. Click here to read more… Credit: www.livemint.com
GST rollout may turn Nagpur into India’s warehouse
TORONTO/MUMBAI: The city known as zero mile in India is finally in the right place at the right time. Nagpur is in the dead centre of the country, at the crossroads of busy road and rail corridors that bisect India east to west and north to south. Now, India is on the cusp of a […]
Indian-Americans unhappy with California school textbooks over portrayal of Hinduism
WASHINGTON: Indian-Americans have expressed anguish over the negative portrayal of Hinduism and India in the proposed California school textbooks. “It is disappointing to see that even after a decade of building awareness by the Hindu-American community, textbooks especially by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), McGraw-Hill, Discovery and National Geographic continue to use orientalist narratives to portray […]
Indian-Americans shine at Intel science fair in the US
WASHINGTON: While four Indian-Americans received top awards in various categories, an Indian boy has won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides. Prashant Ranganathan, a 12th grader from Jamshedpur, alongwith over 20 high school students from various parts of India, participated in […]
11-year-old stuns experts showing toys can be turned into ‘weapons’
An 11-year-old “cyber ninja” stunned an audience of security experts Tuesday by hacking into a teddy bear via Bluetooth to show how interconnected smart toys “can be weaponised”. American wunderkind Reuben Paul may still be only in 5th grade at his school in Austin, Texas, but he and his teddy bear Bob wowed hundreds at […]
Indian-origin gay minister frontrunner in Irish prime ministerial race
LONDON: An Indian-origin doctor and Ireland’s first openly gayminister has emerged as the frontrunner in the Irish prime ministerial race. Leo Varadkar, 38, the Dublin-born son of a Mumbai-born father and Irish mother, is expected to become the country’s first homosexual prime minister. Click here to read more… Credit: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
India’s Vaishali wins gold in Asian Blitz Chess Championship
CHENNAI: India’s R Vaishali won the women’s title with eight points from nine rounds in the Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championship in Chengdu, China, on Sunday. She was at her best in the Blitz event and won seven games and posted two draws in the nine-round event. Click here to read more… Credit: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Indian rocket that US once ‘grounded’ will put Isro-Nasa satellite in space
NEW DELHI: In 1992, the US under President George Bush had slapped sanctions on Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and prevented Russia from sharing cryogenic engine technology with the Indian space agency so as to check India from making missiles. Two decades later, US space agency Nasa has joined hands with Isro to co-develop the […]
Mother of two from Arunachal becomes world’s first woman to scale Everest twice in week
GUWAHATI: Anshu Jamsenpa of Bomdilla in Arunachal Pradesh became on Sunday the first woman to claim “dual ascent” of Mount Everest twice within a span of five days. She broke the previous record of Nepal’s Chhurim Sherpa, who had climbed Mt Everest twice in a week in 2012. The 37-year-old is also the first Indian […]