The world’s wealthiest individuals are on a roll with billionaires in Asia leading the pack. Billionaire wealth increased 17 percent to $6 trillion in 2016, after a decline the previous year, UBS Group AG and PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a report issued Thursday. Led by China, the number of the region’s billionaires surpassed the U.S. for…
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a new mega-city across its borders with Jordan and Egypt which will be entirely powered by renewable energy. The city, which has been named NEOM, will be built from the ground up on a massive greenfield site in northwest Saudi Arabia. It will span over 26,500 square kilometers,…
Russia will soon launch the biggest even nuclear missile, powerful enough to destroy the whole of UK, Texas or even France, reported Daily Mirror. The intercontinental ballistic missile, codenamed Satan 2, has the power to deliver about a dozen nuclear warheads of 40 megatons – 2,000 times as powerful as powerful as the atom bombs…
The ISRO has started flight integration activity for its next lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and scientists are currently carrying out tests for the lander and the rover that will explore the moon. Officials said the spacecraft launch, on board GSLV-Mk II, is planned for March and many new technologies have been developed indigenously to achieve the…
The Hyderabad police registered a case on Monday against an NRI, after he reportedly divorced his wife through an advertisement. The Hussainialam police said that the accused, identified as Mohammed Manaziruddin, a resident of London, married a 24-year-old woman from Hyderabad in September 2015, Deccan Chronicle reported. “Manaziruddin promised to take me to London, but he never…
New Delhi: Large personal electric devices (PED) like laptops might be banned inside check-in luggage to avoid any fire incident in the cargo of planes, report claimed. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a study submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stated that fire in PED kept in cargo hold “could lead to…
Jahnavi Parikh was two when her father Piyush Parikh, an IT professional, moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1999. Jahnavi began school in the US and, later when her father moved back to India between 2004 and 2007, he enrolled her in a Mumbai school. Post 2007, she was once again studying in the US. Two…
Rory Stewart says Islamic State members pose a serious danger and ‘the only way of dealing with them will be to kill them’ The only way of dealing with most of the British Islamic State fighters in Syria is to kill them, a British government minister has said. Rory Stewart, an international development minister, said…
In one adrenaline-loaded stunt, 245 people rope-jumped off a bridge in Brazil. As many as 245 people jumped together on Sunday from a 98-foot-high bridge in Brazil in a Guinness World Record attempt at rope jumping. The stunt took place in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. Although the success of the attempt has not…
Supreme Court steps in on National Anthem row, says no need to stand up in movie halls to prove patriotism. New Delhi: People do not need to stand up in cinema halls to prove their patriotism and “cannot be forced to carry patriotism on their sleeves”, the Supreme Court said on Monday, asking the Centre to…
