Miscellaneous

Ahmedabad, June 21: Around 800 differently-abled people from across the country attempted to set a Guinness World Record for 'Largest Silent Yoga Class' here on Thursday. Participants have been training for this occasion since May with yoga experts at the Shivanand Ashram. Speaking to media here, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said, "People all over the world celebrated the 4th International

Kolkata, Jun 18: A forest ranger found himself in a bind after a python briefly strangled him while he posed for pictures with the giant snake. Wildlife officer Sanjay Dutta was called in Sunday by frantic villagers in West Bengal after they saw the 40-kilogramme (88-pound) python swallowing a goat alive. Instead of placing it safely inside a bag, the ranger wrapped it around his neck and posed

United Nations, Jun 14: India is among almost 90 countries in the world without national policies in place that ensure new fathers get adequate paid time off with their newborn babies, according to a new UNICEF analysis. Almost two-thirds of the world's children under one-year-old – nearly 90 million – live in countries where their fathers are not entitled by law to a single day of paid paternity

Washington, Jun 8: Google would not be developing artificial intelligence for use in weapons, its CEO Sundar Pichai has said, after facing a backlash over the technology giant's involvement in a Pentagon project. Google recently announced it would discontinue work with the Department of Defense on Project Maven, an artificial intelligence project that analyses imagery and could be used to enhance

Vidisha, Jun 3: Professor Sanjeev Srivastava whose dancing video went viral on social media, has been appointed as the brand ambassador by Vidisha Municipal Corporation. Sanjeev Srivastava, 46, is an electronics professor who stormed the social media after his dancing videos from a wedding went viral. The 46-year-old professor said that he is a die-hard fan of actor Govinda. In the video

Four arrested for incident near Satna Satna, May 21: A 45-year-old man was beaten to death and his friend was severely thrashed by four persons on Thursday night for allegedly slaughtering a cow in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, the police said. The four accused have been arrested. Beaten with sticks The accused are said to have travelled 70 km from Satna on getting information that two persons

Mumbai, May 20: Mumbai-based jeweller, who created a hijack scare onboard a Jet Airways flight in October last year, has become the first person to be put on the National No Fly List, eight months after it was unveiled. Incidentally, he was also the first to be booked under the stringent Anti-Hijacking Act which had replaced the vintage law of 1982. Birju Kishore Salla (37) was arrested in October

London, May 16: Radio astronomers from around the world have been glued to their sets for decades to listen to that one sound from somewhere in space which would prove that an alien life, sufficiently advanced, exists somewhere in our universe. Well, reliable evidence is yet to come to our notice, but, according to an international team of scientists, they could be living in a parallel universe

Oslo, May 12: The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries` time, a scientific study said on Thursday. The spread of hominims - early humans and relatives such as Neanderthals - from Africa coincided with the extinction of mammals such as the mammoths, sabre

Washington, May 3: India's Aadhaar technology does not pose any privacy issue and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the World Bank to take this approach to other countries as it is worth emulating, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. The 62-year-old multi-billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist said Nandan Nilekani, Infosys founder who is considered as the chief architect of