Author: Rahul M

India’s top men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the semifinals of the China Masters 2025 with a commanding straight-games victory over Ren Xiang Yu and Xie Haonan at the Shenzhen Arena in Shenzhen, China on Friday. Satwik-Chirag, who had finished runners-up in the Hong Kong Open 2025 last week, outclassed China’s Ren Xiang Yu and Xie Haonan 21-14, 21-14 in 38 minutes during their quarterfinal clash of the USD 1,250,000 prize money tournament. Seeded eighth in the men’s doubles competition, Rankireddy and Shetty, who are ranked fourth in the BWF World Rankings, had earlier defeated…

Title – Arasayyana Prema Prasanga, Producer – Smt. Meghashree Rajesh, Direction – JVR Deepu, Music – Praveen BV and Pradeep BV, Cinematography – Guruprasad Narnad, Cast – Mahantesh Hiremath, Rashmitha Gowda, PD Satish, Raghu Ramanakoppa, Sudhamma, Hanumakka, Sujith, Vijay Chendur, Anand Ninasam, and others. Here is a neatly packed, hilarious family entertainer from the first-time producer banner Raj Kamal Films. The film boasts a very good screenplay, sharp dialogues, catchy songs, and natural performances. The rib-tickling situations, combined with fine cinematography and a village backdrop, make Arasayyana Prema Prasanga a beautifully scripted and well-narrated film. The film addresses the issue…

Title: Kamal Sridevi, Producers: Swarnambika Pictures, BK Dhanalakshmi, and Barn Swallow Company, Direction: VA Sunil Kumar, Cinematography: Nagesh Acharya, Music: Keerthan, Cast: Sachin Chaluvarayaswamy, Sangeetha Bhat, Kishore, Ramesh Indira, Akshita Bopaiah, Raghu Shimogga, MS Umesh, Mithra, and others. With an attractive title, Kamal Sridevi (both names being towering figures in Indian cinema), this Kannada film presents a touching tale that keeps the audience glued to their seats until the last frame. However, while the premise is engaging, its execution could have been better. First, the treatment of the suspects is rather lacking, and police consultation would have been essential for…

Researchers have developed a layered metalens design that can focus multiple colors at once, breaking through fundamental limits of single-layer lenses. Credit: 10.1364/OE.564328 Engineers created multi-layer metalenses that focus several wavelengths. The design could revolutionize portable optical devices. Researchers have introduced a new way to create multicolored lenses that could pave the way for a generation of compact, low-cost, and high-performance optics for portable technologies like drones and smartphones. According to Mr. Joshua Jordaan, lead author of the study from the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems…

Researchers use laser light to form a tiny “optical pinhole” inside a nonlinear crystal, which also turns the infrared image into a visible image that a traditional silicon-based camera sensor can detect. With this setup, the researchers captured clear, wide-depth images without using any lenses, even in very low light. Credit: Kun Huang, East China Normal University A lens-free system produces sharp mid-infrared images even in low light and over long distances, creating new opportunities for improved night vision, industrial inspections, and environmental monitoring. Drawing on the centuries-old principle of pinhole imaging, researchers have developed a high-performance mid-infrared imaging system…

A new crystal-based detector could soon change how doctors see inside the body. Developed by scientists in the U.S. and China, the device captures gamma rays with unprecedented clarity, promising faster, safer, and more affordable scans. (Artist’s concept). Credit: Shutterstock A new detector aims to reduce costs while improving the quality of nuclear medicine. Physicians use nuclear medicine techniques such as SPECT scans to observe how the heart pumps, follow patterns of blood flow, and identify diseases that are otherwise hidden deep within the body. Current scanners, however, rely on detectors that are both costly and difficult to manufacture. Researchers…

Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working above a San Mateo, California, pizzeria was exploding, simply by letting anyone upload their goofy videos and not worrying too much about who held copyrights to the clips. In 2006, Google snapped up that year-old company, figuring it would sort out the IP stuff later.…

Greater Noida’s real estate market revamps with infrastructure drive and affordability advantage Delhi-NCR, September 19, 2025: Once considered a relatively affordable suburb, the Greater Noida has now transformed into a sought-after address for the end-users and the investors alike. It has rapidly climbed the real estate charts and acquired the status of one of the fastest-growing residential hubs in the National Capital Region. According to recent market reports, residential prices in Greater Noida property market have almost doubled from Q1 2020 to Q1 2025, a figure outpacing neighbouring Noida and Gurugram. Despite the steep rise, homes here still cost less…

While medical imaging can be lifesaving, an alarming study showed that one in 10 blood cancers in children is driven by exposure to radiation from medical imaging.  Medical imaging saves lives by enabling timely diagnosis and effective treatment, but it also exposes patients to ionising radiation — a known carcinogen — particularly through computed tomography (CT). Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and Davis examined data from nearly four million children and estimated that some 3,000 cancers in all may be attributable to radiation exposure from medical imaging. Add Zee News as a Preferred Source The risk increased…

THE Uttar Pradesh government has started taking note of growing complaints by leaders of the ruling BJP and its allies against state officials, especially the “high-handedness” of police, with prompt action taken where the complaints were found to have a basis.This follows murmurs within the BJP that officials call the shots in the Yogi Adityanath-led government, sidelining elected representatives, and that the party may pay a price for this in the 2027 Assembly elections. Last week, the state government ordered a Special Investigation Team probe and suspended six police personnel, including a Station House Officer, in Ghazipur district of Eastern…