Author: Rahul M

Netflix “Stranger Things” is a thrilling mix of science fiction and horror, but it’s a friendship story at its core. Season 1 (which is arguably the best) begins with Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo), and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) racing to save their friend, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), after he disappears. Things get complicated when they run into a girl named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who helps them realize that Will’s disappearance may be connected to the goings on at Hawkins National Laboratory. This adventure is only fit…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has backed the United States’ ambitious plan for the future of the Gaza Strip. How and when it will be carried out remain largely unknown. In a twist unimaginable across the tumultuous history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the plan would mean U.S. President Donald Trump becomes the de facto ruler of Gaza. The territory remains devastated by Israel’s campaign to eliminate Hamas after its Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war.An international body known as the Board of Peace, chaired by Trump, is to govern Gaza and oversee reconstruction under a 2-year,…

MADRID (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a one-day visit Tuesday to Spain and seized the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.”It was a move laden with symbolism.Among the last century’s most famous paintings, “Guernica” depicts the horrors of war — specifically the bombardment of civilian targets. The enormous, black-grey-and-white painting features screaming women, flailing horses and a gored bull. Picasso used them to represent the bombing by Nazi and fascist Italian war planes of the town named Guernica in 1937, during Spain’s Civil War.The painting’s distorted, cubist figures have since become a symbol of suffering, violence and resistance.…

Listen up, folks, because if you’re not paying attention to what’s happening in biotech today, you might miss the next big wave. Olema Pharmaceuticals (OLMA) is lighting up the board like a Christmas tree on fire, and it’s all thanks to some game-changing news from a giant in the field. As of this writing, early in the trading session on November 18, 2025, shares are up a whopping 145% to around $20.93. That’s not just a bump—that’s a rocket launch. But hold your horses; let’s break this down without the fancy Wall Street lingo, so you can see why this…

Karnataka HC rejects police plea to match deceased woman’s fingerprints with Aadhaar; only live prints valid, other ID methods allowedThe Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Bengaluru city police seeking permission to identify a deceased woman by matching her fingerprints with data held by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The court ruled that Aadhaar authentication requires live fingerprints and cannot be applied to those of a deceased individual due to technical limitations, privacy concerns, and security safeguards.The case originated in 2023 when Byatarayanapura police recovered the body of a woman, aged between 25 and 30…

Paramount Since 1966, the “Star Trek” franchise has grown to encompass a dozen TV shows and just as many movies. Throughout its nearly 60 years of existence, there are many common threads that wind their way through every iteration. But beginning in 1990, the series also included something in every series that few have noticed: an inside joke among the many “Trek” writers. It might seem odd, but the number 47 began popping up repeatedly, and it’s all thanks to screenwriter Joe Menosky and a real-life organization called the 47 Society.…

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Seth Rogen has come a long way from his start in critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged shows like “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” as well as his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it film debut in the 2001 cult hit “Donnie Darko.” It certainly helped that those two shows were produced by Judd Apatow, who went on to make some of the best comedies of the 2000s and brought Rogen along for the ride.  Not that Rogen wouldn’t have made it just fine…

Karnataka to build new IT city in Bidadi; Bengaluru hosts 25L IT pros, ₹1.5L cr infra push, 25k startups planned in 5 yrsKarnataka is set to establish a new Information Technology city in Bidadi, near Bengaluru, to accommodate growing demand from global investors keen on setting up operations in the state. Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru in‑charge D.K. Shivakumar announced the plan ahead of the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025, highlighting the city’s unmatched strength in the IT sector.Shivakumar noted that Bengaluru is home to nearly 25 lakh IT professionals—twice the number in California, which has about 13 lakh. With a…

Universal Pictures RATING : 7 / 10 Pros The great acting and artistry of Part 1 carries over here Greater focus on the Animals is welcome Cons The script remains underdeveloped and oddly paced Fewer great songs than Part 1 “Wicked: For Good” finally brings us to the downsides of Universal’s experiment in splitting one stage musical into two full movies. Director Jon M. Chu had miraculously avoided such problems bringing down the first “Wicked” (called “Wicked: Part 1” in its opening titles, though curiously “For…

From a distance, it appears like a medium-sized power bank. On a closer look, it looks akin to a small-form-factor workstation computer along the lines of the Mac Studio. This is the KEO, short for Knowledge-driven, Economical and Open-Source computer–a low-cost computer launched on the first day of the Bengaluru Tech Summit, Tuesday. What are its features? What is the price? Arguably the cheapest plug-and-play device, when available in the market, the KEO houses a 64-bit quad core processor and 8 GB of RAM. While the device has a capability to handle one TB of external storage, it has 32…