Plush toys travelling into space may sound unusual, yet they have quietly remained part of human spaceflight for decades. Missions conducted by organisations like NASA and companies such as SpaceX often include small soft mascots inside spacecraft cabins. These objects are known as zero gravity indicators. They begin to float once a spacecraft leaves Earth’s…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday ruled that citizens have a fundamental right to walk, and this was part of their right to life and free movement. It urged the Union govt to enact a law mandating well-demarcated footpaths for every road to guarantee people’s right to walk in safety.The on-road death of a five-year-old…
Amid rising concerns over digital misuse of celebrity identities, Kartik Aaryan has filed an intellectual property (IP) suit before the Bombay High Court, alleging unauthorised commercial use of his personality across online platforms. The plea names multiple Indian and international e-commerce and social media platforms, along with unidentified “John Doe” individuals, accusing them of exploiting…
The BBC recreated the controversial 1974 Stanford prison experiment in The Experiment to explore human obedience/ screengrab Youtube The idea of recreating one of psychology’s most controversial experiments for television should have been unworkable from the outset. When the BBC announced in 2002 that it would run a controlled prison simulation as a documentary series,…
Get ready for a rollercoaster of laughter in ‘Toaster’, where Rajkummar Rao portrays Ramakant, a man whose fixation on a seemingly mundane wedding gift toaster turns life upside down. With Patralekhaa at the helm of production, this dark comedy invites viewers to witness how Ramakant’s penny-pinching tendencies lead his friends into a hilariously complex predicament….
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s ‘The Odyssey’ dropped online, giving fans a bunch of character first looks, epic battles, mythical creatures, but it is a dialogue that has social media buzzing.The trailer, featuring dialogues between Robert Pattinson‘s Antinous, the primary villain, and Tom Holland‘s Telemachus, has seemingly irked netizens awaiting the epic this summer….
Quote of the day by B.F. Skinner (AI-generated image) A psychologist best known for training pigeons to peck levers for food pellets is not the person most people would expect a quote about love from. Yet B.F. Skinner wrote exactly that. “We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are…
During the promotional event for their latest movie ‘Outcome’, Cameron Diaz cheekily shared a laugh at Keanu Reeves’ expense for forgetting their memorable handshake from ‘Feeling Minnesota’, the film that brought them together back in 1995. But no worries! The dynamic duo swiftly conceptualized a fresh handshake that even Diaz found delightful. While talking about…
A costly government jet has quickly turned into a political headache in Ontario.Canadian Premier Doug Ford says the province will sell a recently purchased $28.9 million private aircraft “as quickly as possible” after facing public and political backlash over the expensive decision.The plane is a Bombardier Challenger 650 and was bought for government use and…
1.1) Since the Treaty’s signing, Pakistan has consistently used its dispute resolution provisions as a strategic tool to delay and effectively obstruct development rather than genuine dispute resolution.Virtually every significant hydropower project India has proposed on the Western rivers – even those explicitly permitted under the Treaty’s terms – has faced formal Pakistani objection, technical…