New Delhi: Keith Haring died young of AIDS. The iconic figure of downtown New York art scene in the '80s, had by the age of 31, created some of the most lasting images of the late 20th century art. He rubbed shoulders with the likes of Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. As Google pays homage to Haring on May 4 with a doodle, here is a biography of the...
01:11 PM, May 04, 2012
London: Prof Albert Einstein, who laid down major fundamentals in physics, may have starved his wife of sex by demanding her to obey a cruel list of rules, a new book has claimed. According to the book, titled 'Einstein: His Life and Universe', the scientist barred his wife Mileva Maric from sitting with him or going out together - and even ordered her saying, "Stop talking to me if I...
10:36 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Miss Universe pageant is changing its rules and will allow transgender women to take part in all of its competitions starting in 2013, the organization and gay rights group GLAAD said on Tuesday. Tuesday's decision follows a media outcry over the disqualification of Canadian contestant Jenna Talackova from the upcoming Miss Universe Canada contest because she was not a 'naturally born female.' Talackova 23, who underwent gender...
06:43 PM, Apr 10, 2012
The Higgs Boson - also known as 'the god particle'- is believed to hold the answer to what creates mass. ...
01:59 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Bangalore girl Nicole Faria, the only Indian to have ever won the Miss Earth title, says there is no favouritism at international pageants and she believes the problem lies in the selection process at home. "The excuse is that there is favouritism or that the pageant organisers want to promote some countries. This is not true. Every pageant would like to ensure that they are fair and appear...
04:43 PM, Nov 14, 2011
HYDERABAD: Mir Mohtesham Ali Khan, who helped the Indian team bag four medals at the Mr World Body Building Competition last year, has been appointed coach for the second time in a row for the national team that is set to take part in the Mr Universe Body Building Competition 2011 to be held from Dec 2 to 8 in Naples. The famous Hyderabadi hopes to do an encore with...
08:31 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Washington: Planetary scientists claim to have discovered that the universe is bound by cosmic thread. An international team, led by the Australian National University, says that it has got evidence of the vast filament of material connecting the Milky Way galaxy to nearby clusters of galaxies, which are similarly interconnected to the rest of the universe, the Astrophysical Journal journal reported. "By examining the positions of ancient groupings of stars,...
01:21 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Will Einstein's 1905 theory of relativity - one of the most fundamental pillars of physics - that underpins "nothing can travel faster than light-300,000 kms, or 186,000 miles, per second" be proved wrong? The speculations started coming after scientists at the world's largest physics lab CERN claim to have clocked sub-atomic particles or neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light. European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN, near...
12:07 PM, Sep 24, 2011
Sao Paolo: Miss Angola Leila Lopes on Tuesday was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in a star-studded ceremony in Brazil's Sao Paolo. India's hopes were dashed early into the competition's final rounds after contestant Vasuki Sunkavalli failed to make it to the top 10. The 25-year-old Lopes is Angola's first winner. She beat out 88 other competitors to win the title during the 60th anniversary of the world's biggest beauty pageant....
08:38 AM, Sep 13, 2011
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