Assorted

New Delhi, Oct 3: A giant dinosaur footprint measuring 106cm long and 77cm wide has been found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The ancient footprint as big as a fully grown person was discovered by a team of Japanese and Mongolian paleontologists. The fossil, which researchers claim could be the world's biggest dinosaur footprint ever found, belongs to the Titanosaur, a long-necked dinosaur and...

Internet users in the United States at the second spot on the list of readers of books and writings on Mahatma Gandhi, even though he never visited America in his lifetime, showed a analytics report of a prominent website on the Father of the Nation. According to a Google Analytics report of website www.mkgandhi.org, majority of online readers or researchers on Mahatma Gandhi belong to India...

London, Sep 29: The Batpod prop used in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight Rises" has been auctioned off at the Prop Store live auction at the BFI IMAX in London. It sold for 312,000 pounds at auction on Tuesday, reported Female First. The Caped Crusader's vehicle used in the 2012 superhero blockbuster from Christopher Nolan's trilogy, starring Christian Bale, was among several TV and film...

Udupi, Sep 29: Thieves broke into a temple and made away with gold ornaments worth Rs. 6 lakh at Kabbinale village coming under the Hebri police station limits in Udupi district. According to the police, thieves broke into the Sri Annapurneshwari Temple between 7 p.m. on September 26 and 7 a.m. on September 27. They decamped with gold ornaments of the deity, whose value is estimated to be Rs. 6...

New Delhi, Sep 28: Nearly half of Indian consumers who are connected on the Internet feel they are "constantly followed" by online advertising and the menace of intrusive anduncontrolled campaigns are ruining consumer experience, according to global research agency Kantar TNS. In a study titled 'Connected Life', the research agency said the findings point to the need for a major rethink for the...

London, Sep 28: Researchers have successfully carried out the process of giving birth to a baby using a controversial "three-parent baby" technique, and the boy has shown no signs of disease by far, the New Scientist, a Britain-based science magazine, reported on Tuesday. The five-month-old boy is the world's first baby to be born using the technique, which is aimed at assisting parents with rare...

Beijing, Sep 26: As China's telecom firm Huawei starts manufacturing in India, official media here has raised the red flag, warning that Beijing needs to worry about job cuts due to shifting of production bases as economic rivalry increases between India and the world's second largest economy. "China needs to worry about effect of industrial transfer to India on production chain," an article in...

Udupi, Sep 26: Various Dalit, Left and progressive organisations will organising a Swabhimani Sangharsha Jatha, “Chalo Udupi”, from Bengaluru to Udupi, between October 4 and October 9. Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, B.R. Bhaskar Prasad, member of the Dalit-Damanitara Swabhimani Horata Samiti, said that members of 166 progressive groups and organisations in the State were expected to...

Beijing, Sep 25: China today commissioned the world's largest radio telescope which can search for "more strange objects", help in better understanding the origin of the universe and boost global hunt for extraterrestrial life. Hundreds of astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts witnessed the official launch of the Five-Hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope's (FAST) mission in a karst valley in...

Sep 25: Indian space agency Isro will shoot off the "Pratham" satellite designed and built by students of the IIT-Bombay among the eight satellites including its weather satellite on Monday, an official said in Mumbai. Conceptualised in 2008 with the aim of making IIT-B a centre for space science and technology research, the satellite weighs just 10kg, is designed to fit within a cube of 30cm, and...