Miscellaneous

Nawada, Jan 30: A distraught woman in Nawada district is refusing to eat and has announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for anyone who can bring back her missing parrot. Babita Devi, a resident of Thana chowk in Warsaliganj, is refusing to eat since January 3 last, the day since her parrot went missing, her family members said. For the past eight years, the parrot used to wake her up and other members of

Jan 30: Tech bigwigs across the globe are supporting immigrants stranded outside the US, courtesy President Trump"s immigration ban. Taking the concerns and offering support, Google has today announced its largest humanitarian fund in support for people impacted by this order. The $4 million crisis fund so announced is a mix of $2 million in donations from employees and the remaining $2 million

Washington, Jan 27: Comments by US President Donald Trump on nuclear weapons and climate change have helped make the world less safe, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned on Thursday, moving its symbolic "Doomsday Clock" 30 seconds closer to midnight. The clock which serves as a metaphor for how close humanity is to destroying the planet was last changed in 2015, from five to three minutes

Washington, Jan 25: Prehistoric otters may have been of the size of a modern wolf, say scientists who have discovered 6.24 million-year-old fossils of one of the largest otter species known to science. Remains of the large extinct otter, which had large, powerful jaws and is estimated to have weighed about 50 kilogrammes, was found in the northeastern Yunnan Province in China. The species, named

Pune, Jan 25: Witn an aim to push green technology in mass public transportation vehicles in India, Tata Motors today launched a fully electric bus and a hybrid one, with indicative prices ranging between Rs 1.6 crore and Rs 2 crore. The company, which is leader in the commercial vehicles space in the country with a market share of around 45 per cent, also showcased its LNG powered bus. Besides

Ballari, Jan 23: A woman delivered a baby with four legs and two male sex organs at the Dhadeasugure Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Raichur in the early hours of Saturday. Born to Lalitamma, 23, and Chennabasava, 26, residents of Puladinni village in Dadeasugure Hobali of Sindhanoore taluk in Raichur, the infant was taken to Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Ballari ,on Saturday

Seoul, Jan 23: The world's biggest smartphone maker Samsung blamed faulty batteries today for the fires that led to last year's humiliating recall of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 device. Internal and independent investigations "concluded that batteries were found to be the cause of the Note 7 incidents", the South Korean company said in a statement. The giant conglomerate was forced to discontinue

New Delhi, Jan 22: India and the US should collaborate more on space research programmes, a prominent scientist from the US space agency NASA stressed here as he felicitated two young Indian astronomers who created history by discovering asteroids in 2010 that are now recognised by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in the US. Amanjot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa, former students of Ryan

San Francisco, Jan 21: Apple is suing mobile chip maker Qualcomm for $1 billion in a patent fight pitting the iPhone maker against one of its major suppliers. The 100-page complaint filed Friday in a San Diego federal court depicts Qualcomm as a greedy monopolist abusing its power in a key segment of the mobile chip market to extort royalties for iPhone innovations that have nothing to do with

Washington, Jan 19: Majority of the non-human primates in the world - the apes, monkeys and lemurs - inhabiting the ever-shrinking forests of our planet face a grim future, with about 60 per cent of them at the brink extinction, according to a new study. "This truly is the eleventh hour for many of these creatures," said Paul Garber, professor at University of Illinois in the US. "Several species