Shah Rukh Khan’s tweet on ‘Zero’ teaser is ‘copied’, Twitterati seek acknowledgment from SRK
- 04-Jan-2018
Shah Rukh Khan has just couple of days ago introduced the trailer of his film Zero directed by Anand L Rai on Twitter and the film has been making news since then. While the most noise has been made by the news of King Khan playing the character of a vertically challenged person, that Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma […]
Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report
- 20-Oct-2017
PARIS: Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday. Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, it said, with air pollution the main culprit, felling 6.5 million people. Almost half of the total toll […]
Two lung diseases killed 3.6 million in 2015: study
- 17-Aug-2017
PARIS: The two most common chronic lung diseases claimed 3.6 million lives worldwide in 2015, according to a tally published Thursday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. About 3.2 million people succumbed that year to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), caused mainly by smoking and pollution, while 400,000 people died from asthma. COPD is a group of lung […]
Mediterranean three times more deadly than 2015: UN
- 25-Oct-2016
MALAGA, Spain: The death toll on the Mediterranean has nearly matched that of all last year, with more than 3,740 migrants and refugees having drowned on their way to Europe, and perilous winter months still to come, aid agencies said on Tuesday. Smugglers are now sending thousands of people on flimsy inflatable rafts from Libya […]
Global heat, sea level hit record highs in 2015
- 03-Aug-2016
MIAMI, UNITED STATES: Global heat, greenhouse gases and sea levels all climbed to record highs last year, making 2015 the worst in modern times across a range of key environmental indicators, international scientists said on Tuesday.
Record number of shark attacks in 2015, researchers find
- 09-Feb-2016
ORLANDO: Sharks attacked people 98 times in 2015, a spike in unprovoked attacks that set a new record as human and shark populations rise, researchers found in an annual global tally released on Monday.
Smartphone shipments hit record high in 2015: report
- 28-Jan-2016
SAN FRANCISCO: More than 1.4 billion smartphones were shipped worldwide last year in a new high for the sector with Chinese handset makers racking up the biggest gains, an industry tracker said Wednesday.
Google sidelined 780 million suspect ads in 2015
- 22-Jan-2016
SAN FRANCISCO: Google revealed on Thursday that it sidelined more than 780 million ads deemed rude, dishonest or dangerous in 2015 in a leap from the 524 million targeted a year earlier.
U.S. agencies say 2015 was hottest on record, shatters records
- 21-Jan-2016
WASHINGTON: Last year’s global average temperature was the hottest ever by the widest margin on record, two U.S. government agencies said on Wednesday, adding to pressure for deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts scientists say are needed to arrest warming that is disrupting the global climate.
Apple paid CEO Tim Cook $10.3 million in 2015
- 07-Jan-2016
NEW YORK: Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's compensation rose 11.5 percent to $10.3 million in 2015, the company said on Wednesday, a year when its sales grew 28 percent and profits by 35 percent but its shares fell for the first time since 2008.