Museum with rare Buddhist statues
Beijing: China will open a museum displaying rare Buddhist statues some of them as old as 1,500 years in its Hebei Province next month. The museum in linzhang County will exhibit more than 200 statues and statue fragments in three showrooms, said liu Haitao, a museum executive.
China gears up for Final lunar mission drill
Beijing: Bracing for its ambitious plan to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon before returning to Earth, China has shipped a carrier rocket from Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang’e-5 lunar mission around 2017. It will be the first drill carried out in a launch site that involves both
Indian-origin pub owner attacker jailed in UK
london: A 51-year-old drunken man who attacked an Indian origin pub owner that left him with a gash to his head and a broken finger has been jailed for two and a half years by a British court. Mark Prince tore apart a beer can and assaulted Jaswinder Singh Thandi with it when Thandi asked Prince to move from the doorway of his pub in southeast England’s Kent area on March 16 this year.
Short fiction app For ‘Snapchat generation’
los Angeles: An Indian-origin entreprenuer in the US has developed a new app which features short fiction for young adults who are hooked to their smartphones. Prerna Gupta from California describes her app, called Hooked, as “books for the Snapchat generation.” Hooked will feature short fiction for young-adult readers.
Japanese hourglass is world’s largest!
Tokyo: A 5.2-metre-tall hourglass, with a diameter of 1 metre, displayed at a Japanese museum has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest hourglass. The hourglass, built at the Nima Sand Museum in Oda, Shimane Prefecture,
measures the duration of a year. It began ticking on January 1, 1991, using quartz sand from Yamagata Prefecture.
Indian woman jailed for murder in Oz
Melbourne: A 32-year-old Indian-origin woman in Australia was today sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in jail for brutally murdering her Indian boyfriend’s new fiancee in a jealous rage in 2013. The court in New South Wales announced the jail term for Patel to a maximum of 24 years.
THai Blasts: Malaysian may have 2 bombers
Bangkok: Malaysian police have sent to Thai authorities photos of two men, one of whom is suspected to have carried out Thailand’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that killed 20 people last month, media report said today.
NASA’s space shotgun to blast asteroids
Melbourne: NASA has teamed up with a Brooklyn-based company to create the first ever space shotgun that will test the strength of asteroids and other space rocks to determine if they are sturdy enough for sampling.