Archive for: August, 2016

Bollywood’s Shah Rukh Khan gets US apology for airport stop

New Delhi / Aug. 13: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan tweeted Friday that he gets detained at US airports “every damn time” after he was stopped at the Los Angeles International Airport. The US Ambassador to New Delhi Richard R. Verma responded with an apology in a tweet saying the US government was working to […]


Nepal’s first animation feature releases music video

Kathmandu / Aug 11: Nepal’s first animated feature film ‘Shankhadhar Yaa Baakha’ (The Legend of Shankhadhar) has released a promotional music video. The music video was simultaneously released in Nepal, UK and USA. The film written, produced and directed by Sanyukta Shrestha, tells the story of national hero Shankhadar Sakhwa who initiated the Nepal Sambat […]


Taking Nepali fashion to new heights

Kathmandu / Aug. 11: In what is slated to be a giant leap for the Nepali fashion industry, the elite New York-based fashion house, Couture Fashion Week New York, will heat up the runways in the Capital at The Kathmandu Post Presents Couture Fashion Nepal scheduled for August 13. A first event of its kind […]


Film comes up with painting competition

Kathmandu / Aug. 13: Nepali film Gaatho has come up with a nationwide painting competition and cartoonist/artist Durga Baral announced the competition on August 10 at the Art Gallery, Pokhara. A press release issued by the filmmaker of Gaatho stated that the competition has three categories — school, college and open. The winners of each […]


2nd Planet May Have Been Habitable Once: Scientists

Aug 13: Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient “Hellish” is a word commonly used to describe the atmosphere on Venus, but a new study suggests the second planet […]


Paralyzed patients regain muscle control with the help of virtual reality

Aug. 13: A 32-year-old woman who had been paralyzed from the waist down for 13 years has regained partial control over her legs after a revolutionary new treatment. The woman, dubbed “Patient 1,” is part of an ongoing research study that uses a system of brain-controlled robotics and virtual reality to restore neurological and physical […]


Google Ventures founder latest executive to depart Alphabet

Seth Fiegerman / Aug. 13: Bill Maris, the head of Google Ventures, is leaving the venture capital arm he founded, making him at least the third prominent executive to depart Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30) in recent months. Maris confirmed his departure in an interview with Re/code on Wednesday. “It’s mission accomplished for me,” Maris told the […]


Keyless entry systems on many vehicles are hackable, security researchers say

Aug. 13: A group of computer security experts say they figured out how to hack the keyless entry systems used on millions of cars, meaning that thieves could in theory break and steal items without leaving a broken window. The experts say that remote entry systems on millions of cars made by Volkswagen since 1995 […]


Machine in Cambodia manufactures heart-shaped ‘clouds’

Aug. 13 : A city in Cambodia features a new and bizarre roadside attraction — a machine that makes heart-shaped “clouds” of foam. The Khmer Cloud Making Service in Phnom Penh posted a video to Facebook showing how its machine makes heart-shaped “clouds” that float away on the wind. The company said the “clouds” can […]


Man takes ‘Olympic’ swim in Louisiana flood

Aug. 13 : A Louisiana man called upon his Olympic spirit to make the best of flooded streets and heavy rain in the area. Jo Guidry, a triathlete from New Iberia, shared video of himself swimming laps in a knee-deep pool of water alongside a local road. “Watching the Olympics + living in South Louisiana,” […]




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