Miscellaneous

Mar 15: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a passenger warning after a woman's headphones caught fire during a recent flight from Beijing to Melbourne. The airline passenger suffered burns to her face and hands after her battery-powered headphones exploded while she was sleeping during the long-haul flight. The woman, who was not identified, said she was listening to music

New Delhi, Mar 15: Washrooms of south Delhi hotels, restaurants and eateries will turn into public toilets from next month, with anyone willing to pay up to Rs 5 getting access to these facilities. Taking this decision, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) said the move would make more than 4,000 toilets accessible to the public. The civic body said it would enforce the rule by adding a

Mar 12: It's time to have a blast with colours, but experts have a word of caution about the chemicals that hide in the air. A fourth of Holi revellers in Kolkata end up with skin blisters, rashes and even burns that take months to heal. This is due to the high chemical content and harmful dyes that are often used to impart indelible marks that can't be easily washed away with soap. Lighter

London, Mar 12: Scientists have found that the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste may be 'fished out' using arsenic molecules - a breakthrough that could make the alternative energy industry safer and more effective. Researchers reported the first examples of thorium with multiple bonds to arsenic to exist under ambient conditions on multi-gram scales where before they had only

Mar 12: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Uttarakhand, capturing significant space in Manipur where it had no presence while Goa remains close. But, as expected, the Akali Dal-BJP alliance lost Punjab where it had already served two terms and faced anti-incumbency owing to drug menace, arms traffic and arbitrary police and general

Karimnagar, Mar 12: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon be tying up with local cable network operators in Telangana to provide broadband services to its customers. "We have already tied up our broadband services with some of the local cable operators in Warangal district successfully. By May 2017 we will tie up with private cable operators in Karimnagar too," BSNL AP Circle Chief

Washington, Mar 10: India's first unmanned mission to the moon- Chandrayaan 1- which was believed lost, is still orbiting the moon, say NASA scientists. The Chandrayaan-1, which cost $79 million, was launched in 2008 to map the moon's surface and look for precious metals. It was assigned a two-year mission. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with Chandrayaan-1

Los Angeles, Mar 8: Scientists have developed a 'nanodote' - a low-cost, molecular gel to counter deadly snake bites more effectively than existing anti-venoms, an advance that may save thousands of lives in rural parts of India. Worldwide, an estimated 4.5 million people are bitten annually, 2.7 million suffer crippling injuries and more than 100,000 die, most of them farmworkers and children in

New York, Mar 7: Fed up with the constant buzzing of your smartphone? Scientists have developed a new system that can tell if you are busy or unwilling to be interrupted by notifications on your device. The model built by researchers from the Rugters University in the US predicts the user's receptiveness to smartphone interruptions by incorporating personality traits. "Ideally, a smartphone

New Delhi, Mar 6: Women in India earn 25 per cent less than men, with men earning a median gross hourly salary of Rs 345.80, while for women it is only Rs 259.8, says a Monster India report. Though the gender pay gap has narrowed by 2 percentage points from 27.2 per cent in 2015 over last year. About 68.5 per cent women of India Inc feel that gender parity is still a concern. The Monster Salary