Hollywood is bidding goodbye to James Tolkan, the guy who brought authority and intensity to every role he tackled. The audience remembers him as the vice principal in ‘Back to the Future’ or the commander in ‘Top Gun’. Tolkan passed away at 94, and his family announced through a spokesperson on Friday.According to The Hollywood…
Elizabeth Fry (Image: Wikipedia) A prison cell is a strange place to find a social reformer.Yet that is exactly where Elizabeth Fry spent much of her time during the early nineteenth century. While many of her contemporaries viewed prisons as places where offenders simply received the consequences of their actions, Fry saw something else. She…
Representative image (Photo credit: AP) Ukrainian drone strikes triggered fires at multiple Russian oil facilities overnight into Saturday, Russian officials said, marking the latest in a series of attacks targeting Moscow’s energy infrastructure, according to the Associated Press.Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region said falling drone debris sparked a fire that damaged an oil depot and…
Veteran Tamil filmmaker, actor and screenwriter K Bhagyaraj was cremated with full state honours at the Besant Nagar Electric Crematorium in Chennai on Sunday, a day after he passed away following a cardiac arrest. He was 73.On Sunday, Bhagyaraj’s mortal remains were taken in a funeral procession through the streets of Chennai to the crematorium….
Julian Alvarez of Atletico de Madrid takes a free kick during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Quarter-Final Second Leg match between Club Atlético de Madrid and FC Barcelona at Riyadh Air Metropolitano on April 14, 2026 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo/Getty Images) Atletico Madrid knocked Barcelona out of the Champions League despite a 2-1 defeat in…
Most robots are built to look like something. Engineers designing machines to navigate the real world have, for decades, reached for the same reference points: the human skeleton, the dog’s four-legged trot, the insect’s crawl. These biological templates have produced impressive machines, but they carry an embedded assumption that a robot needs a front, a…
When we consider the land on Earth, we generally associate it with forests, greenery, and trees. However, there is a particular location on Earth where this is not the case. The location is Greenland. This is because, despite it being the biggest island in the world, there is no presence of trees or forests on…
A chaotic moment at streamer Clavicular’s Miami nightclub has gone viral after he was seen trying to remove rapper DaBaby during a live performance. Videos from the club showed Clavicular shouting, “Get him the f*** out of here” while DaBaby continued performing on stage. The surprising moment quickly spread online, leaving many viewers confused about…
Two Indian men seen being detained by the police in Ohio in connection with a huge gold scam. In March this year, the Westlake Police Department in Ohio conducted an undercover operation after a 78-year-old woman became a victim of a gold scam, and arrested two suspects who were working as couriers. At that time,…
A recent study shows that urban tree canopies play a crucial role in combating the ‘Urban Heat Island’ (UHI) effect. They cut the temperature gap between cities and rural areas by almost half. Trees offer shade and cool the air through a process called transpiration, lowering summer air temperature by a population-weighted mean of 0.15…