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This Indian startup is at the front of the world’s fight against superbugs
Bloomberg | By Ari Altstedter
UPDATED ON JUN 26, 2018 01:40 PM IST
In India, superbugs kill nearly 60,000 newborns every year. The rapid spread of resistant bacteria has now made India the epicenter of a war to prevent a post-antibiotic world, where people would once again die in their thousands of commonplace infections.
FIFA World Cup 2018: Zlatko Dalic hails Croatia defenders for stopping ‘best player in the world’ Lionel Messi
Omnisport | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 22, 2018 08:34 AM IST
Argentina were thrashed 3-0 as goals from Ante Rebic, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic as Croatia registered a convincing win to book their berth in the FIFA World Cup 2018 knock-out stages.
Fred completes transfer to ‘biggest club in the world’ Manchester United
Agence France-Presse, London | By Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON JUN 22, 2018 02:13 AM IST
Fred gives Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho a powerful-looking midfield with the Brazilian set to slot in alongside Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom crosses Rs 100 crore-mark in India
Asian News International | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2018 04:34 PM IST
Chris Pratt’s latest dinosaur movie, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, has crossed an important milestone at the Indian box office.
A new breed of GM giants: Review of Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom
Hindustan Times | By Rashid Irani
PUBLISHED ON JUN 06, 2018 05:58 PM IST
The plot may be thin, but the CGI is impressive and the dinosaurs look more menacingly real than they ever have before.
In the US, the gun is a talisman of rugged virtue in the face of a changing world
UPDATED ON JUN 02, 2018 10:30 AM IST
The American attachment to guns has much less to do with high constitutional principle or even practical need (67% of gun owners may say they have guns “for protection,” but crime rates in America have plummeted since 1990; there is an inverse relationship between rates of violent crime and the manufacture of guns, which has grown exponentially in the last 20 years)
UNICEF ambassador Priyanka Chopra urges the world to care for Rohingya refugees
Indo Asian News Service | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAY 22, 2018 06:26 PM IST
Priyanka Chopra has shared pictures and messages from her field visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Kiss of love? Leopard and buffalo’s lip-to-lip moment is going viral in the human world
UPDATED ON MAY 17, 2018 06:20 PM IST
Viral video shows leopard ‘kissing’ a buffalo.
Meet Delhi’s History Hunter, who pieces together the world that was
Hindustan Times | By Aditya Dogra
UPDATED ON MAY 16, 2018 01:45 PM IST
Anshul Kaushik is a history buff like no other. From dinosaur eggs to pre-Independence artefacts, here’s all about him and his unique collection.
Worlds within walls: A peek into 7 celebrity homes
By Promotional Feature, HT Brand Studio
UPDATED ON MAY 23, 2018 04:48 PM IST
From actor Radhika Apte’s favourite colour to director Zoya Akhtar’s obsession with books, this web series brings to light the not-so-known facts about renowned personalities.
The spectacular exhibition India and the World reaches Delhi
Hindustan Times | By Manik Sharma
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2018 04:47 PM IST
India and the World, a mammoth, spectacular exhibition, comes to Delhi, with its fascinating stories of how we share our past with continents, countries and people in ways we cannot imagine
Mumbai is now the fourth most polluted mega city in the world, says WHO
Hindustan Times | By Badri Chatterjee
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2018 03:25 PM IST
Mumbai surpassed pollution levels of Beijing (92 µg/m3), China, which is the fifth most polluted globally
This futuristic library in Qatar showcases some of the world’s oldest books
Mohammed Aly Sergie, Bloomberg | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 30, 2018 03:05 PM IST
Qatar’s National Library is home to thousand-year-old heritage books, which includes maps and letters tracing the history of Qatar, as well as ancient copies of the Koran and scientific texts from the golden age of Arab and Persian civilisations.
The biggest ‘what ifs’ in the world of tech
Hindustan Times | By Rajiv Makhni
UPDATED ON APR 28, 2018 11:47 PM IST
Certain things or situations that could have easily made a lot of difference to technology
Riyaaz Amlani lists his favourite restaurants across the world
Hindustan Times | By Riyaaz Amlani
UPDATED ON APR 30, 2018 06:51 PM IST
The well-known restaurateur picks five of his favourite places to dine from around the world
In Panipat, the world’s ‘castoff capital’, business hangs by a thread
Hindustan Times | By Madhusree Ghosh
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2018 11:37 AM IST
For decades, the West’s discarded winter wear has come here to be ripped apart and reborn as cheap, warm blankets. Now, a new type of Chinese fleece is threatening to make them obsolete.
10-year-old from Jaipur is the world's youngest practising playwright
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | By Nitika Kakkar
UPDATED ON APR 26, 2018 09:52 PM IST
The chirpy young playwright loves reading fantasy fiction, with the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series being her favourites.
Sexual favours happen in entertainment, political world, says Shatrughan Sinha
Indo Asian News Service, Mumbai | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON APR 26, 2018 01:29 PM IST
Shatrughan Sinha says sexual favours are demanded in and given in both the entertainment and the political world
Singapore to New York in 20 hours, world’s longest non-stop flight set for take off
Indo Asian News Service, Singapore | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON APR 26, 2018 01:24 PM IST
Singapore Airlines’ newest plane, the Airbus A350-900ULR -- for Ultra Long-Range -- will travel on a record-breaking, globe-spanning flight that will connect Singapore to New York
Mira wanted to share pregnancy news with the world, says Shahid Kapoor
Press Trust of India | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 22, 2018 04:26 PM IST
Shahid Kapoor took to Instagram to share the news about becoming a father for the second time.
The couple who chucked high-paying jobs to travel the world
Hindustan Times | By Dia Mehta
UPDATED ON APR 21, 2018 11:37 PM IST
Vidit Taneja and Savi Munjal have been to 85 countries, and counting!
The bizarre new world of baby names
Hindustan Times | By Rehana Munir
UPDATED ON APR 21, 2018 10:52 PM IST
From Gilgamesh to Bee, baby names are often inscrutable
‘Jio-fication’ gets Mukesh Ambani a spot on World’s Greatest Leaders list
Press Trust of India, New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON APR 19, 2018 06:48 PM IST
“‘Jio-fication’ has driven India’s higher-price carriers to drop costs (if not run them out of business), and, fuelled a 1,100% rise in India’s monthly data consumption,” Fortune magazine said.
World’s oldest man from Japan Masazo Nonaka’s secret to long life is sweets, hot baths
Agence France-Presse, Tokyo | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 10, 2018 03:09 PM IST
The 112 years old Masazo Nonaka from Japan lives with his family, which manages a hot springs inn. He also loves eating any kind of sweets, says his granddaughter.
Dwayne Bravo: Playing for Chennai has changed my life
Hindustan Times | By Samarth Goyal
UPDATED ON APR 08, 2018 04:21 PM IST
Dwayne Bravo gets candid about the two passions of his life - cricket and music. The Chennai Super Kings player who hit a major knock in the T20 match against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, also released his third single, Run The World, on Sunday.
This art collector chased a white monochrome painting across the world
Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 02, 2018 02:15 PM IST
Collector Thomas Yamamoto was so enthralled by Mary Corse’s monochrome white canvas that he bought it first and then hopped on a plane to New York from Shanghai to inspect the artwork.
Julian Assange ‘breaks promise’, Ecuador cuts off his communication with the outside world
AFP, Quito | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 29, 2018 10:07 AM IST
The decision was taken because the WikiLeaks founder had broken a 2017 promise to not interfere in other countries’ affairs while in the mission, an Ecuadoran government statement said without elaborating.
The world’s poor need homes, not grand monuments | Mihir Sharma
Bloomberg | By Mihir Sharma
UPDATED ON MAR 13, 2018 04:23 PM IST
Across the developing world, whether India, Brazil or South Africa, governments will increasingly be judged on the communities they create.
How super rich Indians’ love of stocks is dwarfing rest of the world
By Dhwani Pandya (Bloomberg)
UPDATED ON MAR 08, 2018 02:29 PM IST
Equities have been a great choice — the global index is up 17% over the past year and India’s Sensex is 14% higher.
World’s first transgender doll based on US teen Jazz Jennings launched in New York
New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 25, 2018 11:42 AM IST
Tonner Doll Company released a portrait doll modelled on American transgender teen and activist Jazz Jennings at the New York Toy Fair on Saturday.
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