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Cars Turns 20: How Pixar’s Film About Slowing Down Became an Unstoppable Machine
Cars Turns 20: How Pixar’s Film About Slowing Down Became an Unstoppable Machine
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Lightning McQueen races back into theatres on September 4, two decades after Pixar turned a fading Route 66 town into a children’s favourite, a merchandising juggernaut and a surprisingly poignant sto ...
SpaceX-Nvidia Orbital AI Supercomputer: Can Elon Musk Really Put a Data Centre in Space?
9 min read
SpaceX plans to launch its first Starmind AI satellite with Nvidia’s Vera Rubin architecture in late 2027. Unlimited sunlight and computing closer to satellites sound irresistible, but heat, radiation ...
Syria Off US Terror List After 47 Years: How Ahmed al-Sharaa Went From $10 Million Bounty to Washington’s Big Bet
9 min read
The United States first blacklisted Syria under Hafez al-Assad in 1979 and kept it there through Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule. It has now removed the designation under a president who once led al-Qae ...
From School Shoes at Weddings to ₹1 Lakh Mithai Boxes: How Gaurav Chauhan Built Luxury Brand Gur Chini
10 min read
He ran away to Delhi after Class 12, delivered tiffins, waited tables for ₹150 a day and borrowed money for onions. Then a ₹65,000 pair of Louis Vuitton shoes inspired Gur Chini, the luxury-mithai bra ...
A son on a cliff, desperate parents and a devastating end: What police say happened in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
3 min read
What began as an apparent family dispute ended in a devastating sequence of events on a hilltop in Maharashtra. As investigators piece together the final hours of an 18-year-old and his parents, the t ...
Trump’s Iran Trap: Operation Economic Outcast, Escalating Sanctions and the Looming Threat of Military Strikes
6 min read
The US has launched Operation Economic Outcast against nearly 60 people, companies and vessels linked to Iran, threatening countries that keep Tehran connected to oil, finance and technology. Israel i ...
The H1N1 mistakes Indians make every monsoon — and how to avoid them as swine flu cases rise
3 min read
Delhi and Bengaluru are seeing a fresh rise in H1N1 infections. But doctors say the bigger risk is not panic. It's the small mistakes many of us make when flu season arrives.
From Silicon Valley to Safdarjung: Inside Delhi's first robot-assisted knee surgery
3 min read
At a government hospital in Delhi, a 75-year-old man walked into an operating theatre and became part of a healthcare milestone. A robot helped replace his knee. The surgery was free. And the bigger s ...
From Bihar politics to burpees: Tej Pratap Yadav's workout with Mallika Sherawat has the internet doing a double take
3 min read
One is a Bollywood star famous for breaking stereotypes. The other is a politician famous for breaking convention. Put them in the same workout session and you get one of the internet's most unexpecte ...