Miscellaneous

London, Oct 12: In a bizarre incident in the UK, a chicken was taken into police custody after it was spotted crossing the road in the middle of rush hour. Police in East Marketgait, Dundee, were called to an incident in which the feathery bird was spotted wandering across the tarmac in the middle of rush hour. It was seen in the morning on Friday and officers arrived after drivers reported the

London, Oct 10: Researchers have used 3D technology to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to show what life may have been like for the people of the ancient Roman city about 2,000 years ago. By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden managed to reconstruct the house to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. In

Although Syria's tragedy is too painful to be associated with humor, the suffering that both Moscow and Washington are inflicting on the Syrian people reminds us of a kind of a 'black comedy' joke. It goes like this: A barber was very keen on his son inheriting his 'salon', but the young man wasn't remotely interested in such a career. One day the barber decided to force his son to join him, and

New Delhi, Oct 8: His more than two decades long career is a stuff of legends and handing out tips on chasing success, Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar today said one should be smart enough to hide weaknesses against rival bowlers. "You can't expose weaknesses. Once I got hit in the rib-cage. The bowler kept staring at me and I kept staring at him. It had become difficult to breath but I did

Stockholm, Oct 4: British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics for studies of unusual states of matter such as in superconductors, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. "Thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now on for new and exotic phases of matter," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement awarding

London, Oct 3: An Indian-origin man in the UK, believed to hold the record for the world's longest marriage, has died. Karam Chand, 110, died of natural causes in hospital last week – just six weeks short of celebrating his 111th birthday. Chand and his wife Kartari, 103, became celebrities last year following their 90th wedding anniversary. The couple never argued, according to their family. They

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

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