New Delhi: Actress Sonakshi Sinha never would have thought an innocuous body part of hers would stir up the kind of buzz it has on Twitter. For 24 hours now "Sonakshi Sinha's forehead" has been a topic of jokes and roasting on the social networking site. It was among the top 10 trends both on May 9 and 10. From humourists, political commentators and students to housewives the subject of...
01:52 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Recently, Sachin Tendulkar has been seen on television flaunting a new hairstyle. This started a conversation among social networking site users. Some are of the opinion that Sachin looks good in this new hairstyle while others want to see his old hairstyle back. Sachin Tendulkar has never been seen in any hairstyle other than his usual curly locks since the beginning of his career. This hairstyle became so...
01:57 PM, May 03, 2012
HYDERABAD: A day after the beef festival turned violent on the Osmania University campus, the varsity as well as the festival became hot topics of discussion on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday.Users from across the country aired opinions, debated and without hestitation threw muck at one another and importantly, against the university.Noted Dalit activist Meena Kandasamy, who attended the festival, had live Twitter updates on the proceedings and there...
09:28 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New York: Indian military research bodies and Tibetan activists have been targeted by hackers based in China, with a former graduate student at a Chinese university emerging as a key figure responsible for the cyber breach, according to a report by a computer security firm. In its 24 page report, Tokyo-based Trend Micro said the hacking campaign, dubbed 'Luckycat' targeted Indian military research institutions, entities in Japan as well as...
02:04 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: Having premiered on May 30, 2011, Ram and Priya Kapoor (Saakshi Tanwar) " the Bade Acche Lagte Hai couple " finally had sex on last nights episode " March 12, 2012. The sex scene was one of the most talked about topics on Twitter and the jokes were mostly on the over-weight Ram Kapoor. The sex-scene got Twitter all fluttering " Ram Kapoor and Sakshi Tanwar trended overnight....
12:30 PM, Mar 13, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft is hooking up MSN.com with a hipper sidekick to broaden its appeal and stay on top of the Internet's hottest topics. The trend-tracking service, called "msnNOW," tunes into the buzz by sifting through millions of Internet searches and links circulating among the hordes on Facebook and Twitter. The chatter is then distilled into the equivalent of a digital water cooler - a place where people can go...
03:31 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Washington: If alien life really exists, they would have found humans by now, but consciously avoiding us for unknown reasons, a new study has suggested. Researchers, who calculated the time a society would take to muster up the resources and know-how to travel to another world, found that alien civilisations starting from the oldest stars in the galaxy would have had more than enough time to reach Earth. "We are...
04:44 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Haridwar: For centuries, Indian women were forbidden from chanting Vedic Mantras, especially in public, out of fear the power of the religious verses might cause menstrual problems and difficulties in bearing children. Though the thinking changed slightly in recent years to allow women to chant in some cases, it remained extremely rare and private. But on November 6, this will change. A total of 108 Indian women have been selected...
10:43 AM, Nov 08, 2011
London: Ever wondered why scraping your nails down a blackboard sounds so awful? It's because human ears are designed in such a way that it amplifies the screeching sound to make it intolerable, scientists say. Researchers from Germany and Austria found that the noise of fingernails on a chalkboard is similar to human speech and human ears are "built" to hear sounds at that frequency. The researchers, led by Michael...
01:25 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Moscow: A Russian animal tamer has set a new Guinness record, standing on two horses running side by side while his two women assistants stood one on top of another on his shoulders. Edgard Zapashny set the record Monday. He and his assistants formed an acrobatic 4.5-metre-tall human column. Zapashny created the risky acrobatic act with his brother Askold for the Guinness Records. The two have been polishing the act...
03:33 PM, Nov 01, 2011
London: Have had an out-of-body experience? It's nothing, just your brain playing tricks on you, according to a new study. Researchers from the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge claim that common spooky scenarios, such as floating above a hospital bed or walking towards the light at the end of a tunnel, can be explained by human brain trying to make sense of the process of death. For their study, the...
05:23 PM, Oct 31, 2011
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