Pablo Neruda's famous poem has been immortalised by a Brazilian design and graphics studio 18bis. ...
12:39 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The singer also performed 'Skyfall' for the first time at the Sunday night ceremony. ...
11:51 AM, Feb 25, 2013
New York: Taking cue from iris scans used in UID in India, researchers are developing a new biometric system that can identify people by the way they flicker their eyes while looking at a computer screen. Oleg Komogortsev, a computer scientist at Texas State University-San Marco, is making use of the fact that no two people look at the world in the same way. When looking at a picture, different...
03:57 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Eight-year-old Ritesh Walia peers through his spectacles at Hercules saving a lost princess, his latest video game. After five hours with Hercules, he switches to Angry Birds, and then to Pokemon. Ritesh is not alone in his addiction to video games. With increasing access to computers, smart phones, 3D television, ipads and numerous other gadgets, childhood myopia (near-sightedness) has become a huge risk for urban children, say experts....
02:01 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Visual impairment in India has gone down by just 10 percent in the last six years and blindness has reduced by only 12 percent, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organisation. More than 450 million in India require vision correction, of which 100 million do not have access to an eye examination nor can they afford a pair of spectacles. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has...
02:50 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Los Angeles: Two Los Angeles police officers won't face criminal charges alleging they leaked a photo of pop star Rihanna's bruised and beaten face after she was assaulted by singer Chris Brown, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. An internal report by prosecutors says that after a three-year investigation, they didn't have enough evidence to show celebrity news website TMZ paid the accused officers for the photo, and...
06:35 PM, Jun 29, 2012
A book showcasing life and times of late movie icon Dr. Raj Kumar, who had worked in more than 205 Kannada films and one of the greatest performers on the Indian silver screen, was released Saturday here. The 727-page book titled "Naa Kanda Appaji" in Kannada, which means 'Appaji in my eyes', was simultaneously released along with its English version 'Dr Raj Kumar - Personality Behind the Person' by his...
03:54 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Dehradun: A class 8 student lost his eyesight after he was allegedly thrashed by his teacher for not bringing a book to school. The incident occurred in Scholars' Home. The Principal has denied the allegations. A case has been filed against the school and the teacher. The victim, Mohit Arora, will undergo a surgery in Chandigarh in the next two days. The alleged incident happened last month, according to an...
08:42 AM, Feb 27, 2012
London: Actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds have signed up to play lead roles in 'Big Eyes'. Witherspoon and Reynolds have been signed up to play artists Margaret and Walter Keane in a film that will be produced by Tim Burton. The artists became famous in the 1950s and 60s after their paintings of large-eyed kids were one of the first mass marketed art sensations at the time. "We are...
12:40 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Panaji: A film documentary by late painter M.F. Husain will finally be screened at the ongoing 42nd International Film Festival of India despite right wing protests, said organisers Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, festival director Shankar Mohan said Husain's documentary 'Through the eyes of a painter' would 'definitely be screened' Wednesday, but a slot had not been finalised yet. "We are looking for a slot. It will definitely be screened," Mohan...
11:50 AM, Nov 30, 2011
London: Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under a new law in the country. The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes in public. A proposal to enshrine the measure in law has been tabled, Daily Mail reported Saturday quoting Sheikh Motlab al Nabet, spokesperson for Saudi Arabia's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the...
06:02 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Chicago: Grammy-winning blues musician Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website. Smith's death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins, with whom Smith shared a Grammy win this year in the best traditional blues album category...
12:36 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: Forced to live away from India, M.F. Husain at one time wanted to destroy all his paintings, says his son Owais Husain who is hungering to conquer the wasteland of possibilities left behind by his illustrious father. "I feel suddenly in life there is a wasteland in front of me, but the wasteland is rich, inspiring a hunger in me to devour the wasteland. I am ready, actually...
11:49 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Bangalore: Love is not just blind, it can lead to blindness too. It is a fact that young Raghu is bitterly aware of as he is wheeled out of hospital. His girlfriend's relatives, objecting to their relationship, allegedly gouged his eyes out. "They put their fingers into my eyes and caused agonising pain. Her brother said he won't have peace till I die. He has threatened to kill me," says ...
12:05 PM, Apr 23, 2011
New York: Exercise and diet each reduced the risk, but both combined, along with a lack of smoking, caused the risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to fall by more than 70 percent, said study author Julie Mares, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "We don't need to be passive victims of these ravages of old age," Mares told Reuters Health. "Relatively small things could make a difference in...
09:44 AM, Dec 16, 2010
Indian researchers at the MIT in US are using a mobile phone and a small piece of plastic to check eyes. ...
10:19 AM, Jul 01, 2010
The child was bitten by bugs and was losing his eyesight. ...
12:23 PM, Dec 09, 2009
A detective has become a 'must have' tool of political managers. ...
10:29 AM, May 11, 2009
The decision was taken following the protest by Hindu organisations. ...
02:30 PM, Nov 26, 2008
