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Moana Official Teaser Trailer I am Moana of Motunui….get ready to sails the seas as Walt Disney Studios releases the official teaser trailer for their upcoming live-action remake of Moana. View trailer below. In Disney’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Oscar®-nominated animated adventure, Moana (Catherine Lagaʻaia) answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people. Given the fact that Disney has already gone through much of its animated library for their live-action treatment, it…

At the Bengaluru Tech Summit, which kicked off on Tuesday, Information Technology/Biotechnology Minister Priyank Kharge announced that private venture capitalists (VCs) had agreed to partner with the Karnataka Government to fund startups in the state. Addressing a news conference on the sidelines of the Summit, Kharge said the Government was partnering with private venture capitalists for its Deep Tech Decade initiative. Under the  initiative, the Government plans to promote companies involved in deep tech–AI, quantum computing, robotics, and others–and has set aside Rs 663 crore for the next few years to fund startups working in the sector. “We had requested…

New Delhi: Several top Congress leaders considered close to the current leadership have attributed the INDIA bloc’s crushing defeat in the Bihar assembly elections to a “collusion” between the Election Commission and the ruling NDA, leading to an uneven playing field.There were a few voices in the party, though, that had warned the Congress leadership that the party’s campaign in Bihar could be on the wrong track, due to a combination of factors including weak candidates and lack of coordination with alliance partner RJD. Lok Sabha MP from Katihar, Tariq Anwar, is among those voices. In an interview with ThePrint…

What began as the Madhya Pradesh government’s marquee urban renewal project for the Simhastha festival in 2028 — the Kumbh Mela held in Ujjain every 12 years — had ended in an abrupt retreat for Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, marking the first major concession of his tenure.Under pressure from RSS-affiliated farmers’ outfit Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) and backed by the Sangh leadership, the BJP government late on Monday rolled back its ambitious land pooling scheme, a project the CM once described as the “cornerstone of the transformation of Ujjain”, his home turf. The decision, following weeks of backchannel talks with…

In a move to streamline governance, get institutes to “talk” to one another and collectively address the scientific and humanitarian problems posed by the changing climate, erratic monsoons and melting polar regions, the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has merged five of its autonomous institutes.An official statement by the MoES on Monday said the “five institutes will now operate through a unified governance mechanism” under the Earth System Sciences Council (ESSC). Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) in Goa, the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in Chennai, the National…

Every time teenagers open social media, they see a stream of perfect faces, smooth skin, glowing complexions, and camera angles that seem to erase every flaw. What they often don’t realise is that most of these images aren’t real. They’re filtered, edited, or enhanced to the point that even the people in them might not recognise themselves.  And then they start to aspire for that perfection. When not attained, the depression seeps in.   What is the way out?  Add Zee News as a Preferred Source Dr Rajat Gupta, a board-certified plastic surgeon based in New Delhi, shares, “Teens today don’t…

Mumbai: As politicking heats up ahead of local polls across Maharashtra, fresh cracks have emerged within the ruling Mahayuti with all ministers from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena staying away from a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai Tuesday. Some of these ministers even happened to be in Mantralaya before the meeting.The Mahayuti comprises the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). There are 11 Shinde Sena ministers in the Fadnavis cabinet. Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, however, attended the meeting during which the state government took several key…

Graying hair has long been considered a one-way street. A stubborn, visible reminder that aging starts well before we feel it. But new findings from researchers at NYU Langone Health suggest that this biological marker might be reversible—not with cosmetic dyes, but through targeted stem cell intervention. In a landmark study published in Nature, scientists discovered that the process of graying is not necessarily the result of pigment loss, stem cell exhaustion, or aging per se. Instead, the underlying cause may be a failure of melanocyte stem cells (McSCs) to relocate within the hair follicle as needed during the hair…

The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) said on Tuesday that it had shut down 14 paying guests (PG) facilities under the Bengaluru East City Corporation for not obtaining trade licences and violating norms. The 14 PG facilities were allegedly conducting commercial or non-residential activities in residential areas without complying with conditions prescribed under the GBA Act 2024. They were sealed after a team led by Health Officer Dr Savita, along with medical officers, and health inspectors, inspected several paying guest facilities, Corporation Commissioner D S Ramesh said. Among the sealed PG facilities, seven fell under the Mahadevapura Assembly constituency and the…

RJD’s Lok Sabha MP and senior party strategist Sudhakar Singh speaks to The Indian Express on why the party suffered a setback reminiscent of its 2010 rout, when its tally fell to 22, why its EBC experiment failed, allegations of electoral manipulation, and the road ahead. Excerpts: We were in a worse situation in 2010, yet we came back strongly. We will bounce back again. Our problems are not very big; we will resolve them. The artificially created vote by the ruling party will burst like a bubble. We will rise stronger. What went wrong? Story continues below this ad…