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Buy at ₹12K, sell at ₹300K: How Coldplay tickets beat crypto on Sunday

We don’t know if anyone actually bought the black market tickets at that inflated price, but the band’s ticket sale for its Mumbai concerts showed technology alone cannot make a system fair

Should every Indian temple now send prasad for tests?

Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu’s allegation that laddus at the famous Tirupati temple contained ghee adulterated with cow and pig fat has shocked Hindus. It has also made people wary of the quality of prasad at other shrines. Can regular testing set their minds at rest?

How Israel killed most wanted terrorist with a phone call in 1996

Yehiya Ayyash was a Palestinian bomb-maker whose devices killed around 150 Israelis during 1994-95. The Israelis killed him in January 1996 by planting a tiny, remotely-triggered bomb inside his cell phone, just as they have killed or wounded hundreds of Hezbollah cadres with rigged pagers and wireless devices now

When aeroplane tyres killed 4 Indian mechanics in 4 months

When aeroplane tyres killed 4 Indian mechanics in 4 months

A Boeing 757 tyre exploded on August 27, killing two mechanics at Atlanta International Airport. It seems like a freak accident today, but back in the 1970s Mumbai and Delhi reported similar fatal tyre explosions

Why free bicycles are the best ‘rewri’ parties can offer

Why free bicycles are the best ‘rewri’ parties can offer

Bicycle distribution schemes increased the mobility of girls in rural areas, a new study shows. This ensured more of them finished school with better marks, delayed marriage and childbirth, and found work outside agriculture

This Krishna bhakt is teaching Britain to love cows, not beef

This Krishna bhakt is teaching Britain to love cows, not beef

59-year-old Grahame Barritt runs Sri Lakshmi Gaushala in Wales. People can book an appointment to visit and cuddle his cows. They spend hours at the sanctuary and usually go away with strong qualms about eating beef

10 key lessons for India in Sheikh Hasina saga

10 key lessons for India in Sheikh Hasina saga

Thou shalt not silence dissent, scoff at youth, play politics with quotas, and other political commandments for our times. Indian politicians should pay heed

How a painkiller may have caused lakhs of deaths in India

How a painkiller may have caused lakhs of deaths in India

Diclofenac is toxic for vultures and made them practically extinct in India more than 20 years ago. With vultures gone, dogs and rats multiplied on mountains of rotting carcasses, and the rates of disease and death among humans inched up, a new study claims

What’s this California law that Musk says ‘killed’ his son?
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What’s this California law that Musk says ‘killed’ his son?

The new law says schools cannot tell parents about changes in their child’s gender identity. Musk, whose elder son Xavier came out as trans in 2020 and disowned him after turning 18 in 2022, feels this is a bad law “attacking both families and companies”

How SUV craze is speeding up global warming

How SUV craze is speeding up global warming

They weigh much more than cars, need a lot more fuel to run, and collectively breathe out a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in a year — which is more than Japan’s CO2 emissions. And they are only becoming more popular

<strong>Are Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stuck on the ISS?</strong>

Are Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stuck on the ISS?

​It seems so, but the Starliner spacecraft they went up in is certified to fly back in an emergency. However, as it is still undergoing testing, NASA and Boeing are in no hurry to bring it back. They are carrying out tests to get to the root of its problems

Long before Trump, a man shot at Reagan to win Jodie Foster's heart

Long before Trump, a man shot at Reagan to win Jodie Foster's heart

While the Trump shooter was killed, John Hinckley Jr is alive and a free man because the jury held him not-guilty on the grounds of insanity. John was delusional and had internalised Robert De Niro's character from 'Taxi Driver'. He had also fallen madly in love with Jodie Foster...

Mumbai car crash accused arrested: Is it too late for the cops?

Mumbai car crash accused arrested: Is it too late for the cops?

After dodging police for three days, the main suspect has been caught, but the case won’t be forgotten soon. There’s the political angle, of course — Mihir Shah is a politician’s son — and the sheer brutality of the attempted getaway. And now, rumours of a cover-up

<strong>How a ‘crypto queen’ swindled $4 billion</strong>

How a ‘crypto queen’ swindled $4 billion

44-year-old Ruja Ignatova is back in the news some seven years after she disappeared. Was she killed or die she deliberately go missing? No one knows for sure. But what made headlines is how she scripted the world's biggest crypto fraud worth billions of dollars

FBI will pay you $5 million for her arrest. Here’s why

FBI will pay you $5 million for her arrest. Here’s why

44-year-old Ruja Ignatova is back in the news some seven years after she disappeared. Was she killed or die she deliberately go missing? No one knows for sure. But what made headlines is how she scripted the world's biggest crypto fraud worth billions of dollars

How Ruja Ignatova scripted world’s biggest crypto fraud

How Ruja Ignatova scripted world’s biggest crypto fraud

The 44-year-old Bulgarian-German is back in the news seven years after her disappearance. It’s rumoured that she was hacked to pieces and thrown into the sea in 2018. Nobody knows for sure, but what is known now in great detail is how she took the world for a €4bn ride with her OneCoin fake cryptocurrency

Delhi, hold on, this dam will quench your thirst soon

Delhi, hold on, this dam will quench your thirst soon

After 50 years on the drawing board, Renuka Dam, which will provide 23,000 litres of water per second to Delhi in the dry months, looks set to become reality. But construction and filling up of the reservoir could take another eight years

How well did the world know Gandhi before 1982?

How well did the world know Gandhi before 1982?

Was the Mahatma really unknown outside India before Richard Attenborough made a film on him in 1982? That’s what PM Modi said, but it’s not true

Why two ₹10 notes could sell for ₹2.7 lakh each this week

Why two ₹10 notes could sell for ₹2.7 lakh each this week

They were unsigned notes, practically worth nothing in 1918. But the ship bringing them to India sank during WW-1, setting in motion events that would make them very desirable in 2024

This tech can make cars cheaper. So, why did Tesla slam brakes on it?

This tech can make cars cheaper. So, why did Tesla slam brakes on it?

Casting a car’s body in one piece, instead of welding together hundreds of small pieces, is the obvious way to cut costs and speed up production, and Tesla had pursued this goal doggedly for five years through a process called ‘giga-casting’ before it abruptly changed its mind in April

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