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A working professional in Bengaluru can turn out idli batter in under ten minutes on a machine that sits on her kitchen shelf, a process that took her grandmother the better part of the morning on a stone grinder. The batter is the same. The dish is the same. But somewhere between the grandmother and…
As the original film’s beloved song ‘Toh phir aao, mujhko sataao…’ echoed through cinema halls screening ‘Awarapan 2’, fans of Emraan Hashmi couldn’t contain their excitement, with clips showing audiences enthusiastically singing along. Amid this, Pakistani singer Mustafa Zahid, who has repeatedly expressed frustration over losing his spot to Mithoon on the song’s revamped rendition,…
Delhi University graduates face a postgraduate admission crisis after completing the four-year program. NEW DELHI: At the Jantar Mantar protest in July, closely competing with anger on paper leaks was frustration about the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).The country’s first and predominantly Delhi University batch to graduate this year under the National Education Policy (NEP)-mandated bachelor’s…
Representation of the astronauts’ unexpected reaction to inhaling fine lunar dust during Moon missions. Image Credits: ChatGPT. The Moon looks barren, silent and almost spotless from a distance. Up close, Apollo astronauts discovered something very different. Fine lunar dust clung to their spacesuits, coated equipment and followed them back into the spacecraft. When the dust…
The youth continued moving along the dangerous edge despite the appeals. CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An attempt by a couple to prevent their 18-year-old son from jumping off a dangerous cliff at Khavyda Dongar ended in tragedy on Friday, resulting in the deaths of all three family members after they plunged into a deep stone quarry.The incident…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have bought Strancally Castle, a Gothic-style mansion in Ireland, for an estimated $35 million, according to reports. The historic property sits on a 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in County Waterford and will serve as a base for the couple when they visit Ireland. The purchase also has a…
Beverly Hills is known for some of the most expensive residential property in Los Angeles, where large homes can change hands for tens of millions of dollars. In 2022, two such properties became part of a very different kind of transaction. MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, donated…
In 1922, an American engineer began building a summer house in Rockport, Massachusetts, with an unusual material in mind: old newspapers. Elis F. Stenman was interested in whether discarded pages could do more than carry the day’s news, so he began pressing and bonding them into the walls of his house. What started as an…
Priscilla Chan’s journey from the daughter of Vietnamese refugees to a Harvard graduate, paediatrician and major science philanthropist is rooted in a family story shaped by war and migration. Her grandparents put her parents, who were teenagers at the time, on boats to flee Vietnam during the war. Chan grew up in Massachusetts, where her…
Sebastian Gutierrez was an automatic starter under Dimitris Dimitriou and had a big role to play in the team’s impressive run Panaji: Churchill Brothers FC have started building the squad for their Indian Super League (ISL) debut and their first foreign signing is a player they’ve known from his maiden season in India: Sebastian Gutierrez.The…
