Miscellaneous

Dhaka, Jan 10: Bangladesh authorities seized a luxury Rolls-Royce Ghost car illegally brought into the country for a former North Korean diplomat expelled for smuggling. Customs intelligence chief Moinul Khan said Han Son Ik intended to bring in the car without paying duty due to his diplomatic status and sell it on to a local buyer. Officials said the luxury car would have been liable for import

Meryl Streep brought the house down at Sunday night's Golden Globes as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. Though many other presenters and winners, plus host Jimmy Fallon, brought up the political division that has been simmering in America lately, nobody did it like Streep. After an emotional introduction from Viola Davis, Streep spoke about the role actors, and the

Los Angeles, Jan 7: iPhone maker Apple has cut its CEO Tim Cook's salary by a whopping 15 per cent for 2016 as annual sales declined for the year, missing targets that also led to the tech giant's first annual revenue decline in 15 years. The company gave the 56-year-old USD 8.75 million in total compensation last year, down from the USD 10.28 million he received in 2015, according to a Securities

New Delhi, Jan 6: New Year's eve saw a whopping 14 billion messages being sent on WhatsApp in India as more people opted to send season's greetings through the instant messaging platform than traditional routes like SMS and greeting cards. India is the largest market for the Facebook-owned company, accounting for about 160 million of its over 1 billion users. According to data shared by WhatsApp

Washington, Jan 4: Scientists using data from a NASA probe have unveiled 3D subsurface images of Mars polar ice caps, showing previously obscured layering, larger volume of frozen carbon dioxide and bowl-shaped features that may be buried impact craters. The information will help scientists better understand Martian climate changes and may allow them to determine the age of the polar caps without

Beijing, Jan 4: Chinese smartphone vendors last year captured about 40 per cent share in India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, the official media here reported. Among all, Lenovo saw its shipment volume rise to the second only after Samsung in the third quarter last year, state-run China Daily quoted global research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) survey as saying

New Delhi, Jan 4: Google CEO Sundar Pichai is all set to address domestic technology market with a focus on small and medium businesses on Wednesday. Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will join Pichai and other senior leaders from Google, which is expected to begin at 11 am. At the event, Pichai is expected to make announcements regarding the company's new initiatives

Washington, Jan 2: A rare comet discovered by NASA scientists will be visible using just binoculars to skywatchers on Earth this week for the first time, before the object heads back into outer reaches of the solar system for an orbit lasting thousands of years. The comet, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure because

London, Jan 1: The real reason for Titanic's tragic sinking that claimed over 1,500 lives in 1912 was a fire in the ocean liner's boiler room and not simply a collision with a giant iceberg, a new documentary has claimed. The Titanic's hull was fatally weakened by a fire that had been smouldering in the coal bunker in the boiler room since she left the shipyard in Belfast, Irish journalist and

Washington, Dec 30: This year will last a second longer as a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks on New Year's Eve by the timekeepers. The extra second will be inserted at the US Naval Observatory's Master Clock Facility in Washington, DC at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which corresponds to 5:29:59 am Indian Standard Time on January 1