How Many Celebrities Does it Take to Make a Hit Web Series?

By Zachary Sniderman What kind of web series sends you a giant salami in a red and grey tube sock as a promotion? One where said salami actually plays a crucial role in its off-the-wall comedy and even odder plot lines. Backwash is an entirely strange and utterly surreal new web series premiering on Sony-owned video site Crackle  this November 15. The 13-episode series largely follows...

Renault Delivers Zoe, Frenchwomen Cry Foul

Renault gets go ahead for 'Zoe' It could be the French version of "A Boy Named Sue" - a car named Zoe. A judge ruled Wednesday that the automaker Renault can call its new electric car Zoe, much to the chagrin of some French women and girls with that first name. Parents of two children named Zoe Renault (pronounced ZOH-eh ruh-NO) had argued in court that their children could end up enduring a lifetime...

Traps at MBA Entrance Tests: Learn How to Dodge Them

The last time, I focused on few of the commonly faced dilemmas at the various B-School entrance tests. A management entrance test is designed so as to bring out the ability of an aspirant to perform under immense pressure. To subject the students to a bit of stress so as to observe how good they are at handling it, is one of the main objectives of any entrance test. In order to ensure this, the test...

Amazon.com Pedophile Guide Sparks Protests

An e-book for sale on Amazon.com entitled "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure," was apparently pulled by the online retailer late Wednesday after shocked consumers across the nation called for a boycott. The title, authored by Phillips Greaves, was published late last month, according to product details previously available on Amazon.com. It sold for $4.79 on the company's Kindle Store. ...

ULFA Paid $99 mn Bribe For Arms' Passage in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Nov 11 : An Indian militant group and the embassy of a South Asian country bribed "higher-ups" in the former Khaleda Zia government to ensure safe passage of a huge arms cache that landed in Chittagong port in April 2004, a former minister has told investigators. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), operating in northeast India, had teamed with the embassy that was not named,...

In a Major Shift, Indian DRDO Looks at Building Arms With US

As DRDO notches up successes in high-tech fields like missiles, aerospace, electronic warfare systems and command networks, senior officials are confident laboratories have much to offer New Delhi, Nov 11 : India is co-developing and building missiles and military aircraft with Russia; it is co-developing missiles with Israel. But targeted American sanctions, and a Washington licence raj that stifles...

‘Killer High Heels’ Have Injured 3 Million Women

The next time you wear those stilettos, better be careful. Here's why. A new study has suggested that more than three million women have had to seek medical attention for injuries caused by their high heels. Half either tore a tendon or twisted an ankle, while thousands of others smashed their teeth or broke wrists by falling flat. But 60 per cent of women said whatever agony a pair of heels caused,...

Mysterious Bubbles Fox Astronomers

Cambridge, MA, Nov 11 : NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way -- a finding likened in terms of scale to the discovery of a new continent on Earth. The feature, which spans 50,000 light-years, may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. "What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting...