Miscellaneous

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 7: With the onset of the outbound tourism season in the Middle East, Kerala Tourism has rolled out a promotional campaign in Dubai targeting Arab travellers and showcasing the state's backwaters and waterfalls on taxis plying in the bustling metropolis. As many as 200 Kerala-branded taxis will ferry the message of 'A Faraway Land Four Hours Away'– with eye-catching visuals

Bucket Design, is an industrial design studio from Pune has designed and installed India's biggest 3D metal sign at Almatti dam for Karnataka Government. Almatti dam is a biggest dam under Krishna Bhagya Jal Nigham Limited (KBJNL) and was named after Lal Bahadur Shastri as he laid the foundation stone of this irrigation project for the benefit of farmers in north Karnataka region. The sign reads

Los Angeles, Aug 3: A couple has been arrested in the US for abandoning their two-year-old son alone at home while they drove around playing the widely popular location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go. Brent Daley, 27, and Brianne Daley, 25, left their 2-year-old boy at San Tan Valley home in Arizona for 90 minutes in scorching heat without water while they played Pokemon Go in surrounding

Toronto, Jul 30: Researchers have identified "superstar" varieties of rice that can reduce fertiliser loss and cut down on environmental pollution. The study looked at 19 varieties of rice to identify which ones were more efficient at using nitrogen. "We have this bucolic idea of agriculture - animals grazing or vast fields of majestic crops - but the global reality is it is one of the biggest

Kolkata, July 28: A litterateur with the zeal of an activist, Mahasweta Devi used creative expression as a tool to fight for the rights of the indigenous people and marginalised sections. With the sincerity of an activist and the passion of a writer, the Bengali writer was the voice of the oppressed in her novels and short stories, which won her a number of awards including the Padma Vibhushan

Abu Dhabi, Jul 26: Solar Impulse 2 landed today in the UAE, completing its epic journey to become the first sun- powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy. The plane touched down at 04:05 (0535 IST) in the capital Abu Dhabi after a more than 48 hour-long flight from Cairo, the final leg in its journey which began on March 9 last year. Cheers and

United Nations, Jul 22: India is ranked at a low 110 of 149 nations with regard to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new index topped by Sweden that shows all countries face major challenges in achieving these ambitious goals. The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched a new Sustainable Development Goal Index and Dashboard

New Delhi, Jul 17: Drug trafficking in India is on a new 'high' with anti-narcotics agencies having detected the crime being perpetrated through the cryptic 'darknet' and the clandestine and unregulated currency Bitcoin. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), chief law enforcement and intelligence agency responsible for fighting drug trafficking and abuse of illegal substances, has interdicted two

Kerala: The opening salvos of the fight against fat have been fired in the southern Indian state of Kerala. On Friday, the state government announced a 14.5 percent "fat tax" on burgers, pizzas, donuts, tacos, sandwiches and pasta served in branded restaurants. With Kerala having the second highest rate of obesity in India, the new tax is a "preventive measure," the state's finance minister Thomas

New Delhi, Jul 14: India ranks second after Indonesia on the global list of shark fishing nations as fishing of the species in the country has progressed from being “incidental” to “targeted”, a wildlife body said on Thursday. “Shark fishing in India has progressed from being incidental to targeted over the years. The transformation occurred only during the 1990s due to increasing demand in the