Actor Vishal has completed 22 years in cinema, and the milestone has arrived at an important point in his career. As he looks back at more than two decades on screen, the actor is also stepping into a new role with Magudam, which marks his directorial debut. The film’s release has given the occasion added…
Representative Image of the Lac La Belle shipwreck resting on the lakebed among aquatic life and quagga mussels (AI-generated image) On the night of October 13, 1872, the steamer Lac La Belle left Milwaukee for Grand Haven, Michigan, carrying 53 passengers and crew along with a cargo of barley, pork, flour and whiskey. About two…
Food insecurity remains a daily reality for more than 300 million people across Africa, and the high cost of imported potassium fertiliser is part of the problem. Nearly all of the world’s potash is mined in Canada, Russia and Germany, leaving African farmers reliant on expensive, distant supply chains and a fertiliser that leaches quickly…
India’s 80th Independence Day brought together celebrities from Bollywood, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and other corners of Indian cinema, as stars took to social media to celebrate the occasion. From Ram Charan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn to Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Yash, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Kamal Haasan and Priyanka Chopra, several prominent names shared patriotic…
Yash has once again shown why his bond with fans goes beyond the usual star-fan relationship. The Kannada superstar recently won praise for spending a long day meeting fans and posing for pictures with them. His gesture has now caught attention after a guest who witnessed the interaction spoke about how seriously Yash takes the…
Sonia Gandhi’s Vande Mataram row: BJP alleges ‘hatred’, Congress calls claim false NEW DELHI: A political row erupted on Saturday over the rendition of the full version of Vande Mataram at the Congress’s Independence Day event, with the BJP accusing grand old party’s former chief Sonia Gandhi of objecting to the national song and the…
Coco 2 has been confirmed with the return of Ernesto De La Cruz. (Instagram) During the D23 Expo, fans got a glimpse of many upcoming projects. From Marvel unveiling the new ‘X-Men’ cast to releasing the trailer of ‘Avengers: Doomsday,’ a lot of new and upcoming projects have been confirmed. This now includes ‘Coco 2,’…
With 10 mentions, ‘Saathiyon’ was the second-most use dphrase NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed the nation from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort in Delhi as the country celebrated its 80th Independence Day.His 75-minute speech featured nearly 40 mentions of “Mere pyare deshwasiyon” (my beloved fellow citizens), making it the…
Representative Image of a modern Texas nuclear reactor supporting advanced isotope production for healthcare (AI-generated image) Every day, more than 40,000 Americans undergo a diagnostic scan that depends on technetium-99m, a radioactive isotope used to image the heart, spot cancer and check kidney function. Every milligram of the molybdenum-99 that produces it currently arrives in…
In September 1968, three months before Apollo 8 carried the first humans around the Moon, two Central Asian steppe tortoises had already made the same journey and returned home alive. According to Nasa, the tortoises launched aboard the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, travelling alongside wine flies, worms and plants as…