Electric car company Tesla Motors becomes the first car maker in the world to be valued a market capitalisation of $1 trillion. With the latest deal worth $4.2 billion from car rental company Hertz, Tesla’s market capitalization crossed $1 trillion mark this week. Tesla is the fifth US Company to join the trillion dollar club. … Read more
A cinematographer has been died and the director is in serious condition after a prop gun used for shooting accidentally fired. The incident took place on the set of a movie named ‘Rust’ in US on Thursday, where the gun was accidentally fired by popular American actor Alec Baldwin. Filming of the movie set in … Read more
China reports new outbreak of Covid-19 infection among a group of tourists and started mass testing on Thursday. The outbreak is spreading to many provinces with close contacts and the authorities have cancelled hundreds of flights and closed a number of schools in a measure to prevent it. The new outbreaks are mostly reported in … Read more
Former US president Donald Trump has announced launching of his new media company with its own social media platform. Trump had faced strong criticism for using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook for encouraging his followers to attack US Capitol months ago. As a result, he was expelled from many of these platforms. According … Read more
The Taliban in Afghanistan beheaded a woman volleyball player earlier this month, her coach said. Mahjabin Hakimi was a member of Afghan junior women’s national volleyball team. She was also a star player for Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club before the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government. According to the coach, Hakimi was beheaded by the … Read more
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Facebook a mammoth £50.5 million (€60 million approx.) for breaching an order imposed during an investigation about the company’s purchase of GIF platform Giphy. Facebook had deliberately failed to comply with this order, and the penalty served as a warning that no company was above the law- … Read more
Indian company Takachar has been selected as one of the five winners of the first-ever Earthzone Prize. The prize also called ‘Eco Oscar’ is instituted by Prince William of UK to encourage innovators who work to reduce the environmental challenges we face. A prize money of £1 million will be given to each winners and … Read more
Former US Secretary of State Collin Powell dies at 84 due to Covid complications. Powell was fully vaccinated but the infection was taking his life. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said in a statement on social media. Powell was the first black person to … Read more
The Russian film crew have landed earth after the first ever successful movie shooting to be taking place in space. The director Klim Shipenko, actresse Yulia Peresild and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy returned to Earth from International Space Station after 12 days of shoot. They were carried in a space ship called ‘Soyuz’ which landed in … Read more
Turkey’s Rumeysa Gelgi has been named as the tallest woman living by Guiness Book of World Records 2022. She stands at 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in). Interestingly, Rumeysa was re-measured this year after she was first awarded the title for the tallest teenager living (female) back in 2014, when she was aged 18, as per the record website. … Read more
A man has been handed a double life sentence for murdering his wife by drugging her and then forcing a cobra to bite her. Soraaj S. Kumar, 28, came up with an elaborate plot to murder Uthra, 25, take her family’s money and then marry another woman, a court in Kollam, India, heard. But the … Read more
A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is surviving well after hatching two weeks ago at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts, US. The turtle has six legs and it is able to use all of them. It is also feeding well on blood worms and food pellets, said the Wildlife carers. The two heads … Read more
Turkish national Rumeysa Gelgi becomes the tallest woman in the world. Guinness World Records has officially announced the 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in) tall Rumeysa as the tallest woman alive. She had earlier held the record of tallest teenager (female) in the world back in 2014 when she was 18. The 24-year-old Rumeysa’s tall stature is down … Read more