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India’s film industry, said to be the largest globally with some 1,000 movies produced each year, earns around $2 billion from legitimate sources such as screening at theatres, home videos and TV rights. But with $2.7 billion, piracy earns 35 per cent more, and a way out has proved elusive. Red Chillies Entertainment, a production house promoted by actor Shah …

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to lug your suitcase with you when travelling? If only your suitcase could just follow you, like your pet Labrador, while you were negotiating your way through a crowded airport terminal or a railway station? Well what’s technology for if not to turn fantasies into reality. A suitcase manufacturer called Cowarobot has …

Today marks the end of one of China’s most controversial practices. Consider that statement for a moment. June 30 is the end of the 10-day Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Despite staunch international criticism, the Chinese government allows the bizarre and cruel event to occur. With so much information distributed about the event, it can be difficult to get at the underlying issues. …

Hopefully train journeys will be more pleasant with stinking toilets becoming a thing of the past. Vinod Anthony Thomas, a student of Manipal University, has won the second prize for designing a waterless and odourless toilet for the Indian Railways. In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India initiative, the railways held a public competition for waterless and odourless …

“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born,” said Alan Kay, a US-based computer science pioneer credited with designing the Dynabook – the basis for all modern-day tablets and laptops – in the early 1970s. Try remembering the time when you held your first mobile phone. Did you realise what the device was going to offer you in …

The day when you can look tidy even without washing your clothes does not seem too distant as researchers, including one of Indian origin, have developed a technology to make textiles clean themselves within less than six minutes when put them under a light bulb or out in the sun. The researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed …

Thousands of followers of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had their lessons in art of living amid thundering showers at Yamuna flood plains here on 12th March, 2016. Musical groups and dance troupes from countries like Ghana, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the Netherlands performed before a huge gathering on a windy evening. The entertainment was mixed with religious teachings …

Want to drive a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S or experience any other super car you may have only heard of? Want to ride a Kawasaki Ninja ZX 14 R or enjoy the raw power of Triumph Rocket 3 or any other super bike you may have only seen in pictures? Any of those ultra-luxury cars or monster bikes can all …

The seven-acre stage created by the Art of Living Foundation for its World Culture Festival on the Yamuna flood plain here caused a bit of public inconvenience as most of them faced difficulties in having a point of focus. With evening rain showers affecting TV screens, people could not see Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Art of Living Founder Sri …

A team of US researchers including an Indian-origin scientist has formulated a new method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy the likelihood that your tweets — that are part of an ongoing debate or a movement — will become part of a larger and even violent protest later. The study from researchers at Arizona State University, Texas A&M University …