Author: Rahul M

When the hikers left the campsite early Monday, it was drizzling, windy and just above freezing in Torres del Paine, a national park with towering granite peaks and glaciers in Chilean Patagonia. They had the most difficult stretch of their journey ahead. But they had no idea they would be hit by a blizzard with hurricane-force winds of 120 mph, unable to see more than 10 feet ahead. Within hours, more than two dozen were injured and five were missing.The next day, authorities confirmed that all five of the missing — tourists from Mexico, Britain and Germany — had died.At…

Music is a divine aspect in the life of very promising and talented singer Anitha Sa Ra Mahesh wife of well known politician Sa Ra Mahesh. A grandmother today Anita has showcased her talent with mellifluous singing. Once the Goddess of Music blesses someone, she never leaves them — the talent of Mrs. Anita Sara Mahesh is an example of this. Instead of sitting at home because of family and children, she introduced her inner musical talent to the world through film and album songs. She also received the support of her husband Sara Mahesh and her children. As a…

Diana Walker/Getty Images Hey, Vern! Do you have a hankering to spend a little time with your old pal, Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney)? Then it might be time to belly up to bar and order yourself a big helping of the best — and very worst — Ernest movies. Sure, they’re light-hearted and sometimes light-brained, but they have a lot of heart, and for folks of a certain age they were a staple of their childhoods. Now they can pass that tradition on to the young people in their…

New Delhi: The Congress’s organisational rejig in Uttarakhand—a bid to step out of ex-CM Harish Rawat’s shadow—has exposed the fault lines in the party, casting a shadow on its ability to put its house in order and mount a serious challenge to the BJP in the state.The BJP has ruled the state since 2017. Uttarakhand goes to the polls, early in 2027. Last week, the party appointed Ganesh Godiyal as its Uttarakhand unit’s president, replacing Karan Mahra. Returning to the Congress from the BJP in 2022, Harak Singh Rawat has been made the chair of the party’s election management committee.…

Addressing speculation pertaining to the Karnataka chief minister post and cabinet reshuffle, Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar said Congress members have to listen to what the high command says, adding that he will meet Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday. Several Congress MLAs who support Shivakumar met the party high command on Thursday amid rumours about a cabinet reshuffle in Karnataka. This comes as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah completes two-and-a-half years in office amid rumblings of a reported power-sharing agreement between him and DKS. “Making a group is not in my blood. All 140 MLAs are my MLAs. The CM decided that he…

The discovery could open the door to new treatments targeting age-related ailments by boosting the immune system’s natural ability to fight aging. The immune cells identified, CD4 T cells that produce a protein called Eomes, appear to be a crucial defense against the harmful effects of cellular senescence, which has long been associated with aging. What Are Senescent Cells and Why Are They Harmful? Senescent cells, often referred to as “zombie cells,” are cells that have stopped dividing but remain active within the body. While they don’t contribute to tissue regeneration, they can secrete harmful molecules that trigger inflammation, causing…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk ‘s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said.Grok, built by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial. The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange on X, saying that the response distorted historical fact and violated…

New Delhi: The election of Samrat Chaudhary as the Bharatiya Janata Party Legislature Party chief in Bihar on Wednesday has created quite a buzz in political circles as this virtually projects him as the face of the party in the state.On Thursday, he joined the Nitish Kumar Cabinet as a deputy chief minister, the other deputy being Vijay Kumar Sinha, also from the BJP. There are also questions over the party’s decisions on Chaudhary since he was also a minister in the Rabri Devi government, a fact that flew in the face of the BJP’s ‘jungle raj’ salvos at the…

Late-night brightness has become a defining feature of urban life. From blinking storefronts to LED-lit streetscapes, artificial light surrounds us after dark — a modern comfort we rarely question. But a decade-long study out of Boston is casting this glow in a new light, suggesting it may be quietly undermining heart health while we sleep. New research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2025 links nighttime exposure to artificial light with heightened stress activity in the brain, inflamed arteries, and significantly increased cardiovascular risk. This emerging connection between environmental light and heart disease isn’t just theoretical — it’s…

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online.His proposal: use 🙂 and 🙁 as markers to distinguish jokes from serious comments.While Fahlman describes himself as “the inventor … or at least one of the inventors” of what would later be called the smiley face emoticon, the full story reveals something more interesting than a lone genius moment.The whole episode started three days earlier when computer scientist Neil Swartz posed a physics problem to colleagues on…