Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan becomes 1st film to enter Rs 200-crore club in Tamil Nadu

Director Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 is marching towards Rs 500-crore at the box office worldwide. By the end of 17 days, the film entered Rs 200-crore club in Tamil Nadu. This is the first ever Tamil film to achieve this incredible milestone. According to trade analyst Ramesh Bala, Ponniyin Selvan is…

Conservative Ulf Kristersson elected Sweden’s new Prime Minister, backed by far-right

 Conservative leader Ulf Kristersson was on Monday elected Sweden’s new Prime Minister and was, for the first time, backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats. Kristersson, 58, was elected with 176 votes in favour and 173 against, after announcing a deal on Friday to form a three-party government between his…

iPhone SE 3 price in India hiked? Well, not really

Several reports are claiming that Apple has increased the price of the iPhone SE 3 (or iPhone SE 2022), which launched in India earlier this year. Similar to its predecessor, the iPhone SE 3 has three storage variants and more or less the same colour options. At launch, the smartphone carried a price tag of Rs 43,900…

This potentially hazardous asteroid is spinning strangely

It was in 1983 when Simon Green and John Davies spotted Phaethon, the 5.4 kilometers-wide asteroid in data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. The asteroid came close to Earth in 2017, passing from a distance of just 10 million kilometers away from the planet. The potentially hazardous asteroid has been behaving…

Climate change: These countries are struggling with extreme weather events

Months after the UN-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that extreme weather events will become frequent and more intense, countries across the world are facing the consequences. From biblical floods in Pakistan to the submergence of cities in Australia, climate change is leading to…

Mysterious pulse hits Earth. It was from the most powerful explosion in universe

Earth was hit by an unusually long-lasting pulse on October 9, which has raised global curiosity. The high-energy radiation that swept over Earth is likely from the birth of a black hole and is called a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), which originated 1.9 billion years ago. The burst was detected for nearly 10 hours and…

Monsoon withdrawal leads to unfavourable conditions for air pollution dispersal

From Saturday evening the wind speed has begun to decrease and there is a fall in temperatures too as per scientist Vijay Soni of India Meteorological department  (IMD). Due to this there are chances of rise in the levels of air pollution in Delhi. This is not a favourable situation . He said  “This is why we are…

G7 fails to reach intervention deal to ease pain of soaring dollar

Japan and other countries facing the fallout from a soaring US dollar found little comfort from last week’s meetings of global finance officials, with no sign that joint intervention along the lines of the 1985 “Plaza Accord” was on the horizon. With a strong push from Japan, finance leaders of the…

Narendra Modi to inaugurate ‘PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022’ today, 1 crore farmers to attend virtually

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the two-day event ‘PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022’ on October 17, Monday at around 11:30 am at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. The event aims to bring together more than 13,500 farmers from across the country and around 1,500 agri…