With The Fool (Durak), 34-year-old Russian film director Yuri Bykov has officially become his country’s Cassandra. The New York Timessays the film is about corruption in a squalid Russia. Bykov’s 2014 film is about much…
British Muslims are losing the war against ISIS. So says Sunny Hundal in a new essay in Quartzmagazine. “For the vast majority of Muslims who disdain its ideology,” he writes, “the challenge that [ISIS] presents…
On September 3rd, the world watched with fascination and at least a little trepidation as China marked the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender during World War II with a parade of troops and military hardware….
Russia’s incompetent bully of a leader, Vladimir Putin, has just committed his latest blunder. He’s decided to prop up the dying Assad regime with weapons and soldiers. Good luck! The USSR’s fiasco in Afghanistan and…
For the longest time, Nintendo fans could not purchase the company’s consoles from Amazon. Instead, they had to rely on third-party sellers on the site to purchase them. Now, after several years of not stocking…
A new spacecraft which will help in the search for gravitational waves is setting off for South America on its final earthbound journey before heading to space in November. A team from the University of…
Infosys on Wednesday launched two new financial products for the Indian market that will help it tap the multi-million dollar opportunity in the newly announced payments banks segment. The two products – Finacle Payments Bank…
Country’s second-largest handset vendor Micromax on Wednesday said it expects one-fourth of its smartphone sales volume to come from 4G devices by end of the year. The company, which has four LTE-enabled devices in its…
If you wanted to check out the best happy hours deal in your neighbourhood, there’s now an app that curates over 8,000 nightspots in more than 700 localities across 15 cities in India. Happitoo, an…
Micromax on Wednesday announced strategic collaboration with chipmaker MediaTek to launch mid-to-premium 4G LTE smartphones powered by the MT6735 and high-end Helio chipsets, like the Helio X10. The Indian domestic handset maker at the launch…