A kiss that may have compromised a career: Japan boy band member Yamaguchi in centre of a storm

You are hot, successful and famous. And above everything- you are part of a cultural phenomenon in a country where pop culture is worshipped. Your fan-following, as expected, is immense. Among your globe-trotting fans are obviously women. Young girls- if…

Japanese Engineers Have Created A Real Life Transformers

Transformers series has been an absolute favourite of many. It was first an anime in which cars used to transform into robots who were fighting to save the world. Soon the show got so popular that a bunch of filmmakers…

Free from Mugabe’s damning era of misgovernance, a new Zimbabwe is fighting to comeback from the brink

If someone wanted to enroll in a crash-course in understanding Zimbabwe- both as a southern African region and an independent entity- then perhaps writing an essay on the African republic’s crisis-ridden state of affairs may serve an effective criterion for…

Why Is China Worried About North Korea? Could There Be Some Insecurity?

The last when North Korea and South Korea interacted jointly and in amiable terms was perhaps when they weren’t a divided entity. It was a time where the duo had been a singular geographical body known as Korea. Interesting would…

Alberta Institute For Wildlife Conservation Completes Its 25th Anniversary

One of the finest ways of giving back something to the communities we come from is to care for the wild. While keeping a pet at home and domesticating and nurturing young, innocent animals is a distinct pleasure; something that…

Bangladesh Booming! What’s Led To A Stormy Rise Of An Underrated Sub-Continental Economy?

Natural disasters didn’t hurt its spirit, poverty didn’t mar it’s ability to fightback and the world’s largely opaque understanding of its culture and realities did little to dissuade Bangladesh from regrouping with its cerebral, inwardly bound talent and a collective…

The Real Positive Of Organising A Marathon In London Was The Curbing Of Pollution!

Should more and more cities resort to organising marathons? Should marathons be organised as a means to battle the rising trend of pollution? There is a startling reality in front of us and one that beckons us to take solid…

As North Korea & South Korea Patiently Await Historic Summit, There’s Reason To Be Cautious, Warns US

It was back in 1945 that what had formerly been a united country found to it’s dismay a division of lands and geographical boundaries. Korea- hitherto ruled by Japan till 1945 would be divided in two separate identities. On the…

Nabi Tajima, 117, world’s oldest person from Japan is no more

A country that has the world’s most most alluring culture, rightly described in popular ethos as the land of the rising sun, a progressive economy that hasn’t witnessed an alarming downward spiral since the Second World War and also home…

Theresa May Govt. Considering Banning Of Plastic Straws In All Of England

It’s not exactly a new revelation that the EU has sort of declared a war on the usage and production of plastic materials. Then, whether plastic materials are used in varied spheres of life impacting both domestic matters or professional…

All’s Not Well With Australia’s Great Barrier Reef! But What’s Happened?

Even though it isn’t considered among the wonders of the world, it is for certain, that the Great Barrier Reef given it’s awe-inspiring beauty and a splendrous mix of oceanic life is certainly a wonder in god’s glorious earth. For…

Here’s Why The Sensitive Pulitzer-Prize Winning Rohingya Picture By Danish Siddiqui Is Making News

There are despairs and then they are big despairs, rather cause of despairs. What would you call the Rohingya crisis? Pain and suffering on both sides- Burma and Bangladesh- but the critical eye and sympathetic stares from an entire world.…

These Are 10 Of The Richest Criminals Of All Times

A man fears crime and the power that comes with it, however, the money that comes with it is often romanticized by everyone. After all, the world wants too many things and most of them can only be achieved with…

Dusted in obscurity, can Leonard Foujita make a comeback to public consciousness?

Perhaps it won’t be wrong to say that even to this day, the free-flowing breeze in the midst of Montparnasse carries a whisk of confusion: what happened to one of its most intriguing figure who added to the Parisian allure?…

This Man Made A 3D Printed Sculpture Of Himself And Won A Guinness World Record

The popularity of 3D printing is an ever-growing tale that involves wacky innovations and interesting options one can go for, for a much more sustainable future. What started with mere shapes, transformed into bones, dresses, and sculptors and before we…

Narendra Modi, Aishwarya Rai & Priyanka Chopra Are Some Of The ‘World’s Most Admired People 2018’

Admiration doesn’t come easily for anyone, while some take months, other’s have to work hard for years and years to make their name, and then there are some who owe their life’s success to one incident that changed their entire…

Mark Zuckerberg For The First Time Testifies Before Congress In The Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, made his highly anticipated appearance before Congress in relation the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. The hearing ran through for five-long-hours before a joint-session of the Commerce and Judiciary committees. During his hearing before the Congress, Zuckerberg was…

Kuroi’SH: This Is The Hacker Behind YouTube Despacito Music Video Hack

Hackers are considered to be some of the most notorious people on the Internet who try to get handsy with other people’s websites just for fun. We have seen some big results of this little fun in the past, however,…

Why No Visit To Switzerland Can Ever Be Complete Without Basel?

Most conventional opinions about Switzerland position it as one heck of a sun-kissed, abundantly beautiful wonderland that seems straight out of a fairytale book. It’s the land where cheese oozes from lakes and where chocolate drips from snowy hilltops. The…

Men And Women Are Sharing Their Relationship Abuse Stories

Somehow, hitting someone is always considered to be the highest order of abuse, something that tops it all, something that pushes you to look for a way out. Many don’t even consider an abuse, an abuse until someone has been…

Dubai Now Has Its Very Own 24X7 Trust Bookstore Without Any Support Staff

Reading books is not just some side-lined hobby that one goes back to, at the end of their day, it’s much more than that. For some, reading is almost a way of living life through different perspectives of the characters…

Orange Snow Turns Eastern Europe Into Mars, See It To Believe It

Elon Musk is trying hard to make humans a multi-planetary species. Through his SpaceX programme Musk is planning to send humans to Mars as a “backup drive” for civilization. However, there’s a long time for it to really happen. Till…

Shocking Case of Anti-Semitic Crime Surfaces in France, Resulting in Murder of 85-year-old Woman

Akin to a tiny collection of a grime of dust in a bayside window, antiemetic crimes are scattered across Europe and come to foray every now and again. Even if the collective hubris of Holocaust deniers continue to take pride…

Japanese Cherry Blossom Season Is Here But It Might Die Soon

No matter how eff-ed the seasons in the world (especially India) are, one can’t fail to notice that we’ve officially entered the beautiful-beautiful spring season. The one where trees and flowers and plants come back to life, only to teach…

A 2000-Year-Old Vintage Wine Was Recently Found In China

There’s nothing like unwinding with a glass of wine after a hard day of work. Wine is just perfect to take your mind of work-related things and help you relax. Plus, it’s so highly ingrained in the pop culture today…