Eight years after tsunami struck the Tamil Nadu coast killing thousands, fear of the unknown continues to raise its head if and when there is news of a possible disaster. ...
10:44 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Thousands of mystics, hippies and tourists celebrated in the sunshine of southeastern Mexico on Friday as the Earth survived a day billed by doomsday theorists as the end of the world and a new era began for the Maya people. ...
12:30 AM, Dec 22, 2012
NASA is so sure there will be a December 22, 2012, it has already posted a YouTube video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday". Scientists say rumors on social media and the Internet of Earth's premature demise have been prompted by a misunderstanding of the ancient Mayan calendar, which runs through December 21, 2012. ...
12:44 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Who knew that in the ancient Mayan calendar, they would have predicted so much that pointed to the end of the world? Like the exact date that Lindsay Lohan's horrendous Elizabeth Taylor biopic 'Liz & Dick' would air on Lifetime? That Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj's egos would collide during 'American Idol' auditions? That Donald Trump would act even more bizarrely than he did in 2011? And that Brad Pitt...
12:02 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Chinese authorities have detained around 1,000 people as they step up a crackdown against a doomsday cult called "Almighty God" which has been predicting the world will end on Friday, state media reported. In recent weeks, hundreds of members of the Almighty God group have clashed with police, sometimes outside government buildings, in central Henan, northern Shaanxi and southwestern Gansu provinces, according to photos on popular microblogs. ...
10:46 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Dozens of Michigan schools cancelled classes for thousands of students to cool off rumored threats of violence and problems related to doomsday scenarios based on the Mayan calendar, officials said on Thursday. ...
10:20 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Nothing earth shattering to happen on December 21, 2012. NASA scientists have put their faith in science over belief. NASA scientist Mitzi Adams describes what the Mayans would have done had their civilisation lasted and why there is no cause for alarm. Watch. ...
08:44 AM, Dec 21, 2012
As the appointed time came and went in several parts of the world, there was no sign of the apocalypse. No Armageddon. ...
06:53 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end on Friday, some New Agers are convinced that humanity's demise is indeed imminent. Or at least that it's a good excuse for a party. ...
03:27 AM, Dec 21, 2012
NASA's five scientific arguments proving that December 21 is just another day and there is no apocalypse coming. ...
12:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Once at the heart of a conquering civilization in its own right, the ancient city of Tikal is now a pilgrimage site for both hard-core Star Wars fans. ...
09:16 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Noted astronomer D P Durai has dismissed the prediction of the world ending on December 21 as a mere rumour, saying next Friday would be like any other day. ...
04:07 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Police in China's Chongqing city have arrested four people for spreading doomsday rumours that the world will end on December 21 this year. Two men allegedly used a loudspeaker to proclaim the end of the world on the city's streets on Sunday while another two allegedly distributed related pamphlets. ...
03:38 PM, Dec 15, 2012
NASA released its 'Why the World Didn't End Yesterday' video on December 12 instead of December 22. ...
06:45 PM, Dec 13, 2012
The Maya didn't say much about what would happen next and the Internet has helped feed the frenzy. ...
02:06 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Friday is the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011, and around the world, many people are planning to mark the triple convergence of 11s with a splash, hoping it will bring them good fortune or at least amuse them for a day. Soumyadip Choudhury of IBNLive captured the exact moment on camera. ...
02:33 PM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Doomsday theorists have prophesised that Apocalypse would come on November 11, 2011 but expecting mothers who consider the day auspicious have inundated hospitals with requests for Caesarean section deliveries on 11.11.11, a date that will come once in a 100 years. While some consider the date 11.11.11, a palindrome, lucky, there is not much support on the ground for Apocalypse theorists who have been proved wrong in the...
12:02 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Los Angeles: Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who rallied thousands of followers with a prophecy that the world would end last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, a spokesman said on Monday. Camping, 89, fell ill after a broadcast of his daily Open Forum radio show last Thursday in Oakland, California, and was admitted to a hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, said Tom Evans, a spokesman for...
11:17 AM, Jun 14, 2011
New Delhi: Another Doomsday, that didn't happen. Nothing earth shattering happened at 6 pm on May 21. Harold Camping, the US evangelical Christian broadcaster who had been propagating his Doomsday theory will now have to look for another date for the world to come to an end. This isn't the first of Harold Camping's failed predictions. The 89-year-old had previously, in 1994, announced that Jesus Christ would return to Earth....
06:01 PM, May 21, 2011
New Delhi: Doomsayers are having a field day, selling T-shirts, carrying sign boards and wagging their fingers at skeptics as they predict the beginning of the end of the world. May 21, 6 pm, to be precise. And if you are the type that waits until the last day to pay bills, it is too early to say if you can wriggle out of paying this month, as naysayers rubbish...
01:57 PM, May 20, 2011
