Sanjeev Satgainya / July 30: When I first met Dubby Bhagat sometime in 2003, meeting him had seemed an achievement in itself. I had just cut my teeth in journalism. We would often talk over phone about the pieces he used to write for the daily where I had started as a junior reporter, but […]
Kathmandu / July 29: Two Nepali films have been selected for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Deepak Rauniyar’s feature length film ‘White Sun’ and ‘Dadyaa’, a short film directed by Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet, will represent Nepal in Venice this year. The Venice Film Festival is one of the oldest and major international […]
July 29: Singer Selena Gomez has announced that she is recording some new music. During her “Revival Tour” here, the “Hands to myself” hitmaker told concertgoers that she was gearing up for the release of her new album, reports aceshowbiz.com. “So, lately I’ve been writing and recording some new music. I’m getting ready to release another […]
Kathmandu / July 29: Popular Nepali folk-rock band Nepathya is all set to embark on a musical tour to Europe on Wednesday. In the two-leg tour, Nepathya will perform in Hamburg of Germany on July 30, and Copenhagen of Denmark on August 2. After performing at Gruenspan, Hamburg, Nepathya will move to Copenhagen where a […]
July 30: Nearly eight months after overhauling its strategy to curtail the Islamic State terror group’s success in cyberspace, U.S. officials admit it is hard to know if they are making much headway. “This arguably is the most complex challenge that the federal government and industry face,” said George Selim, director of the office for […]
July 30: Baidu, China’s internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data. The firm’s Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of […]
July 30: Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, the government says. In the six months after the levy was brought in last October, 640 million plastic bags were used in seven major supermarkets in England, it says. In 2014, the waste reduction charity Wrap estimated […]
July 29: Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, astronomers show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories about how Martian gullies form, and reveal more details about Mars’ recent geologic processes. Scientists use the term “gully” for […]
July 30: A charity in London posted a job listing in their window, but their choice to abbreviate the word “assistant” drew some unintended attention. The sign posted outside of a British Heart Foundation location in Bromley read “Ass manager needed in Sidcup,” Christopher Morfill highlighted in a Facebook post. The questionable abbreviation led several […]
July 29: A 13-year-old boy fishing with his dad on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island reeled in an estimated 250-pound shark with his rod. Gianni Mandile, 13, of Emerson, was fishing with his dad Sunday morning when he hooked what he immediately guessed to be a shark. “I started reeling it in and it didn’t […]
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