Los Angeles: James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster 'Avatar' is the most pirated movie in Hollywood history, according to a study released by TorrentFreak. The film has been downloaded some 21 million times since it was released in 2009. Cameron once touted 3D filmmaking as the entertainment industry's best hope for combating piracy, but the 3D spectacle doesn't seem to have helped his film escape the wrath of torrent sites, said The...
07:18 PM, Oct 13, 2011
London: The 'teleportation' of "Star Trek" could become a reality soon. Researchers are using a special laser called Bessel which could potentially draw small items towards a target. Tractor beams in "Star Trek" have long used a subspace or graviton interference pattern created by two beams to pull in their targets although, being sci-fi, the precise technology has never been clear. The real-life breakthrough came after scientists realised that a...
12:12 PM, Mar 05, 2011
New Delhi: Floods continue to cause havoc in north India. In Punjab, several low lying areas in and around Ferozepur were submerged as the river Sutlez flooded its banks. This after over 12 thousand cusecs of water was released from the Bhakra dam even as people whose homes and fields are destroyed claim the government hasn't provided any relief to them. "The water level in the river had stopped rising...
03:03 PM, Sep 27, 2010
Gopeshwar (Uttarakhand): Two Army officials were killed after being caught in an avalanche at Ghastoli area near Mana pass in Chamoli district, official sources said Tuesday. The avalanche struck when the two - Col Puran Chandra and Maj Mahesh - both from Kumaon regiment, were returning after climbing the 24,000-feet-high Kamet Hill last evening, they said. The Army officials were part of a 44-member expedition team. Other members of the...
02:54 PM, Sep 21, 2010
A look at the 10 films that have rocked the Hollywood box office in 2009. ...
03:28 AM, Dec 19, 2009
Police teams and volunteers are searching for Kavita Chikli. ...
02:51 AM, Nov 07, 2009
Roddenberrys' ashes will be shot into space in keeping with their wishes. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 27, 2009
Majel Barrett Roddenberry was 'The First Lady of Star Trek'. ...
12:44 PM, Dec 19, 2008
Banned Pakistan players Salman Butt and Md. Asif were on Tuesday found guilty in the spot-fixing trial. ...
05:38 PM, Mar 14, 2008
New Delhi: There will be two new babies delivered by the Indian Premier League's fourth season and one of those will be the Sahara Pune Warriors, the second team from the state of Maharashtra, owned by Subrata Roy-led Sahara India Parivar. Sahara has been associated with Indian sports, chiefly cricket, for a long time; therefore, their advent into this arena was no surprise. Rather, being one of India's top corporate ...
11:33 AM, Jan 12, 2008
This documentary is the result of a 120-km trek across the Siachen glacier. ...
11:01 PM, Oct 20, 2007
Johannesburg: South African club Highveld Lions will eye an easy win against bottom-ranked Guyana to get themselves within striking distance of a semi-final berth in the first game of the Group B double-header here on Sunday. The Lions haven't played a game since they lost to the Redbacks last Sunday and will look to recover from that loss. They did open the tournament with a bang though winning the lung...
06:50 PM, Oct 16, 2007
London: In a shocking turn of events, top Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has turned out to be the leading Sri Lankan cricketer the ICC's Anti-corruption and Security Unit has been monitoring for alleged links with a bookmaker. The Daily Mail today claimed that Dilshan was the player named in a Sri Lankan Cricket Board report to ICC's ACSU last year after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected illegal ...
01:41 AM, Oct 13, 2007
Rasika Tyagi reports after completing the first civilian trek to Siachen. ...
11:30 PM, Oct 11, 2007
Rajeev's Recco Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired ...
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