It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass has been sitting in museum drawers and scattered across remote stretches of North Africa for decades, sometimes even cut into jewellery that once…
Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi has claimed that many star Indian cricketers were unwilling to play the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup in 2007, saying he personally approached players during India’s tour of England that year and urged them to take part in the tournament.India toured England from July 19 to September 8, 2007, for…
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli is likely to miss India’s upcoming three-match ODI series against Afghanistan due to a hamstring injury. While the exact recovery timeline remains unclear, the former India captain is expected to be unavailable for the series. It is reliably learnt that Kohli is holidaying in Europe after winning the IPL with Royal…
NEW DELHI: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu‘s run at the Indonesia Open ended in the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday after she lost to world No. 1 An Se Young for the second week in a row.Sindhu, who had also gone down to the South Korean in the quarterfinals of last week’s Singapore Open, lost 17-21, 14-21…
Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t just become an actor. He became a generation’s definition of intelligence on screen. From ‘Sherlock’ to ‘Doctor Strange’ to ‘The Imitation Game’ to ’12 Years a Slave’ to ‘The Power of the Dog.‘ He has been in some of the most celebrated and culturally significant productions of the twenty-first century. He has…
Massive Attack are set to return to Australia for the first time in 16 years, with shows confirmed in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney this August. The influential British trip-hop group, led by Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall, last performed in Australia in 2010, making the upcoming tour a long-awaited return for…
After his jibes at director Christopher Nolan‘s ‘The Odyssey’, Elon Musk has hit the headlines again, this time, for sharing an AI-generated trailer for ‘Iliad’—inspired by Homer’s epic tale of the Trojan War—created using xAI’s newly released Grok Imagine 1.5 video-generation model.Posting the video on his handle, Musk praised the technology behind the project, writing,…
PC: YouTube (SLAC from the Sky – Extended Version) On a patch of California land that looks, at first glance, like a low industrial sprawl, a single straight building runs for miles without changing direction. It doesn’t rise into the sky, it doesn’t curve into architectural showmanship, and it doesn’t really behave like a place…
The controversy surrounding Ranveer Singh‘s exit from ‘Don 3’ continues to simmer, even as the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) officially withdrew its non-cooperation directive against the actor on June 3. The Producers Guild of India is now stepping in for another round of mediation, signalling that a full resolution between Singh and…
Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow have set the internet ablaze after a recent conversation in which they playfully discussed the possibility of creating a brand new sitcom together with Courteney Cox. While there is no official project in development, the exchange was enough to send ‘Friends’ fans into a frenzy, with many hoping the beloved…