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Alhind wins UAE contract for Indian passport and visa services, replacing BLS
Abu Dhabi: Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will soon use a new provider for passport renewals, visa applications and other consular services after Alhind Tours & Travels Pvt Ltd won a major outsourcing contract from the Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi, according to reports by Khaleej Times and Gulf News. The embassy confirmed in a public…
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Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth
Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have uncovered evidence that lightning on Jupiter can be vastly more powerful than on Earth, offering new clues about the planet’s extreme storms (Artist’s concept). Credit: SciTechDaily.com New observations of Jupiter’s lightning reveal unexpectedly complex and powerful storms. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is home to massive, long-lived storms, some…
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Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries | Russia-Ukraine war News
Ukraine has succeeded in depriving Russia of much of the windfall profits it would have made from oil exports during March and April, as the war in the Gulf sent prices soaring to above $100 a barrel, a series of sources suggest. Ukraine intensified a long-range strike campaign against Russian port and energy infrastructure on March 21 in a calculated…
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6 Near-Perfect Hard Sci-Fi Movies Nobody Remembers
Science fiction has been one of cinema’s most prominent genres since the dawn of filmmaking, but some incredible sci-fi movies have been forgotten by the masses. Filmmakers have consistently used sci-fi concepts, including futuristic predictions, extraterrestrial invasions, space-faring epics, and alternate histories to test what it really means to be human. While masterpieces like Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star…
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Funny and cringeworthy moments at the Correspondents’ Dinner
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has had multiple iterations since it began a few years after World War I. Washington’s premier soiree on Saturday is most identified by its modern form: a red carpet for the capital’s journalism elite, political staffers and an assortment of American business leaders and celebrities — with the leader of the free world and a…
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Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion
When very massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they explode as supernovae, scattering elements like carbon and iron across space. Another, rarer type of explosion happens when two neutron stars, the dense remnants of dead stars, collide. This event, known as a kilonova, produces even heavier elements such as gold and uranium. These materials are essential ingredients for…
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Putin’s Propagandists Scramble to Respond to Celeb Critic
(Photo: Getty Images) HIS APPROVAL RATINGS ARE SAGGING. His foreign war is floundering while economic woes multiply at home. His erstwhile loyal supporters are rebelling, and there are elections coming up. Donald Trump? Yes, but his role model in the Kremlin is having the same problems. Not exactly the same, of course. Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is now in…
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Cyberabad Police bust Rajasthan gang supplying mule accounts to fraudsters
Hyderabad: The Cyber Crime Police, Cyberabad, on Friday, April 24, busted a Rajasthan-based gang that supplied mule bank accounts to fraudsters and arrested three of its members in connection with an online investment fraud that caused a loss of Rs 78.66 lakh to a victim. The three accused, Vikash Khokhar, 30, of Gotan, Nagaur, Phiroj Mohammad, 26, of Nagaur; and Nitish…
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Cult Classic Movies, and the Fans That Keep Them Alive
April marks the 50th anniversary of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show‘s” debut as a midnight movie at New York City’s Waverly Theater. It is the longest-running theatrical release in movie history. “Rocky Horror” is the Rosetta Stone of cult films, that elusive stratum of film appreciation that cannot be manufactured. As Landmark Theatre’s film buyer and repertory programmer Mike DeLorenzo…
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Newton’s 300-Year-Old Law Passes Its Biggest Cosmic Test Yet
Gravity, long understood as the force governing motion from falling apples to orbiting planets, is now being tested on the largest scales of the universe. New observations of distant galaxy clusters confirm that gravity behaves exactly as predicted by Newton and Einstein, even across vast cosmic distances. Credit: Shutterstock By studying galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years,…
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