Republic of Minerva, Image: AI Generated What if you could build your own country, write your own laws and never pay taxes again? That was the extraordinary vision behind the Republic of Minerva, a self-declared nation founded on an artificial island in the South Pacific in the early 1970s. Backed by wealthy investors and libertarian…
The 2002 film ‘Aankhen’ is considered a cult. The film which starred Amitabh Bachchan, Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal, Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal is still loved for its unique plot and the treatment. It revolved around three blind robbing a bank after being trained and deployed by Bachchan’s character. While the film got a lot of…
Abdul Ghafoori charged with murder of Himanshi Khurana Canadian police have arrested and charged a 32-year-old Toronto man with first-degree murder in the death of his Indian-origin partner, 30-year-old Himanshi Khurana, in December last year.Toronto police said officers from the fugitive squad and homicide unit worked with national and international law enforcement agencies to bring…
Off the coast of southwest England, the small island of Lundy was once a textbook case of how invasive rats can devastate seabird colonies. By the late 1990s, puffin numbers had crashed to just 13 breeding pairs, and many other seabirds had abandoned the island altogether. In 2002, conservationists launched an ambitious rat-eradication project to…
Members of Shri Ram Sena Dharmarth Seva Nyas Sangathan conducted the ritual on Aug 10 DEHRADUN: A fierce political controversy erupted in Uttarakhand after a right-wing group performed a hawan for the “suddhikaran” (purification) of Haldwani’s Ram Lila Ground, two days after Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a public rally at the venue.Members of…
MUMBAI: Hopes of peace in West Asia has lifted investor sentiment across the globe. On Wednesday, on Dalal Street, sensex rallied over 1,400 points in early trades and closed 1,264 points (1.6%) higher at 78,111 points as the slide in crude prices to around $95/barrel level acted as the biggest booster for the domestic market.According…
Sanju SamsonI (Image: BCCI) Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Cricket League (KCL) enters its third season on Thursday with a question that goes beyond who will lift the trophy: Who steps up to own Kerala’s T20 stage in the absence of Sanju Samson?Sanju, the league’s biggest star and a key figure in Kochi Blue Tigers’ title-winning campaign…
NEW DELHI: Congress leaders, including Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, party general secretary KC Venugopal and several other MPs, staged a protest at Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi on Tuesday, demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.The demonstration comes amid the ongoing political…
On day 1 of the Cannes Film Festival 2026 red carpet, Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt talked about her unique skin snack which includes jaggery, ghee, coconut, and peanut. Later, on day 2, when British Vogue asked her about the one Indian dish she misses when in Cannes, Alia smiled and said, “I am obsessed with…
Five people were killed in the crash, while another five were injured An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, striking multiple vehicles and bursting into flames in a deadly crash that killed at least five people and injured five others.The Boeing 767-300, operating as Amazon Prime…