Kiara Advani birthday special: Inside her reported rise from Rs 5 crore films to Rs 15 crore paycheque for Yash and Geetu Mohandas’ ‘Toxic’ Kiara Advani turns 35 today, July 31 and the actress continues to scale new heights in Indian cinema. From delivering blockbuster films across Bollywood and Telugu cinema to becoming one of…
Rohit Chakravarty led a bat walk at Sunder Nursery on April 17 to mark International Bat Appreciation Day and launch Delhi-NCR’s first bat field guide Nobody grows up wanting to be a bat person. Unless your parents fell in love over dead ones. For Aditya Srinivasulu, bats were never mysterious creatures of the night. They…
For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping for fur had reduced populations so severely that, in many regions, the animal almost vanished from landscapes where it had once been common. Rivers continued to flow, but they did so without one of the species that…
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has joined UEFA and CONCACAF in opposing FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s proposal to allow private investors to acquire minority stakes in the commercial rights of the FIFA World Cup and other global tournaments, significantly escalating resistance to one of the governing body’s most ambitious commercial plans.In a strongly worded statement…
Africa is currently abuzz globally due to a race for its rare earth minerals. But within the nation there lies another opportunity worth approximately $100 billion, that one man is benefiting from. Smallholder farmers on the continent produce food and support rural economies across the land, yet millions of them remain excluded from finance because…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, rejecting the prosecution’s plea for the death penalty after holding that it had failed to prove the convicts were beyond…
Flagstar Bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over two cyberattacks in 2021. Millions of Flagstar Bank customers who were affected by two cyberattacks in 2021 could be eligible for compensation under a class action settlement. The American bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle claims linked…
Daniel Rodriguez (Image credit: MMA) Daniel Rodriguez will walk out at the Belgrade Arena on Saturday night having never headlined a UFC card before. He is 39, twenty-five professional fights deep, and this is the first time his name sits at the top of a poster.He is also coming off the longest gap of his…
US State Department presented an AI-generated map at a Brazil health conference that misplaced Nigeria, Mozambique, and Ivory Coast. A map of Africa shown during a US State Department presentation at an international health conference in Brazil incorrectly placed and labelled every country on the continent, drawing attention from attendees and prompting widespread online discussion.The…
As concerns over plastic pollution continue to grow, a 14-year-old student in Brazil has developed a sustainable alternative using materials that would otherwise be discarded. Lucas Tadao Sugahara Wernick, a student from Curitiba in the southern state of Paraná, created biodegradable food trays made from cassava peels and araucaria tree residues. Designed as a substitute…