Private parties, lavish buildings, gleaming skyscrapers and famous influencers, Dubai is often seen as the playground of the ultrarich. But behind its opulent facade lies a disturbing trend that has sparked global concern: secretive gatherings known as “Porta-Potty” parties. Trigger Warning: This article has references to sexual extremities and physical violence. Reader discretion is recommended….
BENGALURU: Congress-governed Karnataka’s proposed law to make dissemination of fake news online punishable with up to seven years in jail may have hit its first hurdle already, with confusion over why the Kannada and culture department should be the deciding authority on something within the information technology domain.“As custodians of Information Technology Act, we have…
A striking black iceberg has been spotted off the coast of Labrador, Canada, and scientists and social media users alike are shocked and intrigued. The bizarre image was first captured on camera by Hallur Antoniussen, a fisherman working aboard his shrimp trawler Saputi off Carbonear. While navigating icy waters last month, Antoniussen encountered an iceberg…
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has issued advisory to all e-commerce platforms to take necessary steps to ensure that their platforms do not engage in deceptive and unfair trade practice which are in the nature of Dark Patterns.All e-commerce platforms have been advised to conduct self-audits to identify dark patterns, within 3 months of…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. Scientists have developed futuristic contact lenses that enable humans to see in the dark using infrared light, without the need for bulky goggles or external power sources. The breakthrough, published in Cell on May 22, uses nanoparticle-infused lenses to convert invisible near-infrared wavelengths into visible…
Recent heightened activity on the Sun has raised urgent concerns among scientists and emergency management agencies worldwide. A series of powerful X-class solar flares — the most intense category of solar radiation — has triggered warnings about Earth’s vulnerability to potentially devastating space weather events. These flares have originated from the exceptionally active sunspot AR4087,…
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it cancelled last week. An administration antisemitism task force cited what it described as a failure by the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school to confront what it called…
While Pakistan is reeling from India’s retaliatory strikes on its terror camps, it has a huge problem to deal with at home. Balochistan is slipping away from Islamabad’s grip. And if former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is to be believed, it has already slipped out of Pakistan’s control to a great extent. He…
Image of ultra diffuse galaxy “NGC 1052 – DF2”, taken by the ACS/WFC instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. (Picture credit: DST) A distant galaxy once thought to lack a key ingredient in galaxy formation may now be better understood, thanks to new research from Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA). Their recent study, published…
Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who helped set off a revolution in humankind’s view of the universe, revealing it to be a vaster, darker realm than the one we can see, ruled by invisible forms of matter and energy we still don’t understand, died on Sunday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan….