New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Pop singer Justin Beiber, who was supposed to pay a visit to India for his tour in October in the capital, has cancelled the event due to his health issues. The announcement comes after Bieber had pulled out of his ongoing world tour, citing exhaustion as he recovers from Ramsay Hunt […]
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday released the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET-UG) results. About 20,000 students have scored 100 percentile in 30 subjects in these examinations taken for admission to undergraduate courses. According to NTA, the highest number of 100 percentilers were in English at 8,236, followed by Political Science (2,065), Business […]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) In the last 24 hours, India reported 6,298 fresh Covid-19 cases and 23 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. The new fatalities increased the overall death toll to 5,28,273. The active caseload spiked to 46,748, accounting for 0.1 per cent of the country’s total positive cases. The recovery of […]
California, Sep 16 (IANS) A massive fast-moving wildfire, dubbed Mosquito Fire, has burned more than 64,000 acres of land since it erupted in California on September 6, becoming the largest wildfire so far this year in the US state, authorities said. The wildfire currently raging in California’s Placer and El Dorado counties, has scorched a total […]
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Human-caused climate change likely increased the intense rainfall that flooded swathes of land across Pakistan, according to rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists as part of the World Weather Attribution group. Extreme rainfall in the region has increased 50-75 per cent and some climate models suggest […]
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Three Arizona State University (ASU) students were accused of making a bomb threat that cleared part of one campus earlier this week, local media reported. According to the report on Thursday, Trevor Benoit, Peter Fraenkel and Lukas Patton were booked on Tuesday into Maricopa County Jail on a felony charge of interference/disruption […]
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) US district judge Aileen Cannon has rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to revive the criminal probe against Donald Trump in the classified documents case and instead appointed a judge picked by the former President as special master to review the documents seized by the FBI on August 8 from his […]
Supermodel Gigi Hadid may have gotten a stamp of approval from her father to date Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio. When giving his two cents on the supermodel’s rumoured new romance, her father Mohamed Hadid said that he “likes” the ‘Titanic’ star, reports aceshowbiz.com. In an interview with Daily Mail, 73-year-old Mohamed told the outlet, “I […]
Rapper and musician Yo Yo Honey Singh has announced his comeback with a new video album titled ‘Honey 3.0’. Yo Yo took to Instagram, where he shared a video. The clip features made-up newspaper clippings with his picture and headlines such as “Where is Yo Yo Honey Singh?” and “Will he be able to make […]
An important ingredientin all Chinese food preparations, Ajinomoto, causes several health issues like hypertension, cardiac problems and a faster rate of ageing, said a study conducted by scientists at the biochemistry department of Allahabad University (AU). Ajinomoto is a kind of salt with a scientific name monosodium glutamate (MSG) and is mostly used in Chinese […]
Scientists have created a ‘digital mask’ that will allow facial images to be stored in medical records while preventing potentially sensitive personal biometric information from being extracted and shared. In research published today in Nature Medicine, a team led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, used three-dimensional (3D) […]
Sep 15 (IANS) After waiting for seven decades for the fastest moving wild animal cheetah, India will finally receive the first batch from South Africa by Friday afternoon. A special Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 plane, having all arrangements for specially housing eight cheetahs for 16 hours journey to Rajasthan capital Jaipur, landed in Namibia capital Windhoek […]
Sep 15 (IANS) Software major Adobe on Thursday announced it would acquire design software company Figma for about $20 billion in a cash and stock deal. Founded by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace in 2012, Figma pioneered product design on the web. The combination of Adobe and Figma will usher in a new era of collaborative […]
Sep 15 (IANS) Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, on Thursday announced his retirement from top-level tennis, saying that Laver cup will be his final ATP tour event. The 41-year-old has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation. “Laver cup next month will be my final ATP tour […]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan signed on the hand of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 14’ contestant Anurag Kumar to avoid any kind of confusion that his twin brother Anoop might take the hotseat. On the quiz-based reality show, the 29-year-old real estate agent from Lucknow took the hotseat and his hilarious conversation with the host about his twin […]
A campaign has been launched to give the late Queen the title of ‘Elizabeth the Faithful’ because ‘the Great’ is rather common and has been used by despots and conquerors, local media reported. Senior UK politicians, including Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, have referred to Elizabeth II as ‘the Great’ since she died last […]
With a few hours after the reported incident involving the motorcade of Ukraine President Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s limousine was attacked in an alleged “assassination attempt” amid Moscow’s raging war against Ukraine, raising speculation over the security in Moscow, a report said. According to the report by General SVR, a Russian Telegram channel, Putin’s […]
Sep 15 (IANS) Cloud major Oracle on Thursday said its India business saw a tremendous growth in the first quarter of FY23, with the Oracle Cloud Unit (OCI) clocking over 100 per cent growth (year-on-year) for the third year in a row. In India, the OCI is growing at 25 per cent quarter on quarter (QoQ) […]
Instead of sitting in a tattoo chair for hours enduring painful punctures, imagine getting tattooed by a skin patch containing microscopic needles. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos that can be self-administered and have many applications, from medical alerts to tracking neutered animals to cosmetics. “We’ve miniaturized […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Madhya Pradesh on 17th September. At around 10:45 AM, Prime Minister will release Cheetahs in Kuno National Park. After that, at around 12 Noon, he will participate in SHG Sammelan with women SHG members/community resource persons at Karahal, Sheopur. PM to release wild Cheetahs – which had become extinct […]