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Next call 007 Rami Malek, who
won the Best Actor Oscar for
Bohemian Rhapsody , is
reportedly the first choice of
director Cary Joji Fukunaga for
the role of chief villain in the 25th recreated in labs, and could be just the incorrect. The Railways has begun a concentric circles and a stone
James Bond film that’s in the
works now. And Bond? Daniel
Craig, of course.
Lost and found Scientists have
discovered a species of giant
tortoise, commonly called the
Fernandina, in the Galapagos
Islands. Not seen since 1906, it
was feared to be extinct. The
female tortoise, believed to be
more than 100 years old, was
found in a patch of vegetation. gown” in black velvet that
Empire after sunset You
thought colonialism was
dead? The U.K. didn’t. It
kept a sneaky toehold in
the Chagos Islands of
Mauritius where it threw
out islanders in the 60s to
establish a U.S. military
base to “protect people in
Britian.” The U.N. court in
The Hague didn’t buy that
and has asked it to leave.
Oscar. Full stop A period
should end a sentence, not a
girl’s education. That was the
thought that spurred the docu­
short that won an Oscar. Set in a
village outside Delhi, the film on
menstruation, co­produced by
Guneet Monga, began life as a
class project at Oakwood School
in Los Angeles.
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Calamari cure Finally, something to A signal scam The Northern Railway
replace plastic. The ring teeth that line a Zone detected a fraud in its system that
squid’s suckers are made of biopolymer shows misappropriation of funds to the
material that comes from complex tune of ₹1.5 crore. It found ‘ghost
proteins in its tentacles. And Penn State employees’ in the computerised payroll In memoriam Finally, India’s
University scientists think that this could who were siphoning off overtime pay, soldiers killed in action after 1947
become a biodegradable replacement for night duty allowance, etc. Even critical get a War Memorial. Spread over
plastics. Thankfully, no squid needs to be details like dates of birth and 40 acres, the ₹176 crore National
killed in the making of it. It can be appointments were found to be War Memorial, designed as four
faux plastic we desperately need. massive data sanitisation drive. obelisk, has the names of 25,942
soldiers inscribed in gold letters
on granite slabs across 16 walls.
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Don’t talk too loud Mr. Jones
Dozens of people are still trapped
in a collapsed gold mine in
Indonesia, and the rescue effort
has become a race against time.
The death toll is being put at
seven, and 30­40 people are still
trapped inside the unlicensed
mine located deep in inaccessible
jungle. Informal mining is common
in Indonesia, and provides How bao You can now make
precious livelihoods to thousands. #70929 the cute dumpling that starred in
the Oscar­winning animated
short Bao. Domee Shi, who
directed and illustrated the film
Ze best outfit In one stroke, actor­singer about a Chinese dumpling with
Billy Porter broke many barriers — immigrant parents, has shared
conservative, male, white — her mother’s original recipe, and
at the Oscars with his it’s all over the Net.
Christian Siriano “tuxedo
was all male above the waist
and flared into a dramatic
skirt below. Porter said he
wanted to fuse the
male­female divide of Off track Pakistan and India
the red carpet: “My goal suspended the Samjhauta Express
is to be a walking piece in the wake of the border
of political art every time skirmish. At least 40 passengers
I show up.” from both countries are believed
to be stranded at Attari, the point More Facebook joy A
where passengers change trains disturbing exposé by The Verge
and board an Indian rake for Delhi shows how Facebook content
or a Pakistani one for Lahore. The moderators, who face an
bi­weekly train was launched onslaught of hate speech,
in 1976 under the Simla murders, suicides and
Agreement. A Pak
spokesman said the train pornography every day, suffer
would resume as soon from serious mental health
as the situation issues. The contract workers end
improved. up using drugs, alcohol and
office sex to cope, it said.
Beat that Looking for
property? Michael Jackson’s
Neverland Ranch in California
is on the block, and its
price has crashed from
$100 million four years ago to
$31 million. The 2,700­acre
estate has a main house
with six bedrooms, three
guest houses, pool, lake,
waterfall, tennis courts
and barns.