Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday (local time) said that Singapore and UAE have shown interest to make the RuPay payment system acceptable in their countries. Sitharaman also said that India is holding consultations with different countries to make RuPay acceptable in their nations.”We are talking to different countries. Singapore and UAE have all come forward now to make RuPay acceptable in their countries,” Sitharaman said at the Brookings Institute think-tank during a fireside conversation with eminent economist Eshwar Prasad.”Not just that, the UPI (Unified Payments Interface), the BHIM app, and NCPI (the National Payments Corporation of India) are…
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Motionless in White frontman Chris Motionless isn’t known for sticking to one hairstyle over the years, and after wearing hats for much of the last year, he’s now shared a “huge look transformation” on his social media. And… fans are, once again, freaking out.Earlier this year, Motionless in White fans grew restless on social media after the vocalist wore a beanie during the band’s ShipRocked performance in January. Dubbed “beaniegate,” many of his followers questioned what he was “hiding” underneath the hat. In turn, the singer trolled them by sharing a video taking off the beanie, only to reveal another beanie underneath.”No big…
Woman of the Hour – first-look review – Little White Lies 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { if(args[0] === ‘init’ && typeof args[3] === ‘object’) { args[3] = { …args[3], tag_version: ‘V2’ }; } queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try…
Tough and Confident: Leadership and Team Chemistry by Eugene Kranz We’re honored to have gotten a chance to talk with Eugene Kranz, former Director of Mission Operations at NASA and the man responsible for returning the Apollo 13 to safety. Check out what he has to say about his new book Tough and Confident: Leadership and Team Chemistry (Gatekeeper Press), which helps teach the leadership and teamwork principles that made the team at NASA work as one. NASA veteran Eugene “Gene” Kranz is best known as leader of the “Tiger Team” flight controllers who returned the damaged Apollo 13…
More than a month after Paul Reubens died at age 70, fans of the Pee-wee Herman actor now know his cause of death. Reubens died of acute hypoxic respiratory failure as he battled acute myelogenous leukemia and metastatic lung cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by The Blast. Hypoxic respiratory failure, also called hypoxemic respiratory failure, occurs when a person does not have enough oxygen in their blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Acute myelogenous leukemia, meanwhile, is a cancer in which one’s bone marrow creates immature white blood cells, which later become myeloblasts, per Healthline. Reubens — who…
COUNTLESS fad diets come and go, but these days there is one we never stop hearing about. Whether you call it low-carbing, Atkins, keto or paleo, the principle is the same: cutting down on starchy food and filling up on fat and protein. Low-carbohydrate diets are increasingly being endorsed by obesity and diabetes specialists, and a growing number of trials show that the approach helps people lose weight at least as much as traditional low-fat, low-calorie regimes. More and more people are eating this way, not to lose weight, but because they see it as healthier. Yet many doctors warn…
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Across a sterile white table in a windowless room, I’m introduced to a woman in her forties. She has a square jaw and blonde hair that has been pulled back from her face with a baby-blue scrunchie. “The girls call me Marmalade,” she says, inviting me to use her prison nickname. Early on a Wednesday morning, Marmalade is here, in a Finnish prison, to demonstrate a new type of prison labor.The table is bare except for a small plastic bottle of water and an HP laptop. During three-hour shifts, for which she’s paid €1.54 ($1.67) an hour, the laptop is…
Wes Anderson’s new short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, marks the second time the director has made an adaptation of a work by the celebrated author Roald Dahl. So, it’s no surprise that when he held a press conference at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere on Friday, September 1st, he was asked about his thoughts on the edits publishers made to Dahl’s books for a recently released collection meant for kids, which included rewrites intended to remove “offensive” language. “Certainly no one who is not an author should be modifying somebody’s book,” he said at the…
Harley Quinn Season 4 features some surprising Easter eggs, including a cameo from two memorable Batman Forever characters — Sugar and Spice. Who are Sugar and Spice from Batman Forever? Sugar and Spice — originally played by Drew Barrymore and Debi Mazar, respectively — were Two-Face’s wives in the 1995 film Batman Forever. In Harley Quinn Season 4, Episode 6, both women can be seen at the Legion of Doom’s party amidst other villains, as you can see in the Reddit post below: Batman Forever was released in 1995 and starred Val Kilmer in the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. Alongside…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ashlie (she/her) is an educator, librarian, and writer. She is committed to diversifying the reading lives of her students and supporting fat acceptance as it intersects with other women’s issues. She’s also perpetually striving to learn more about how she can use her many privileges to support marginalized groups. Interests include learning how to roller skate with her local roller derby team, buying more books than she’ll ever read, hiking with her husband and sons, and making lists to avoid real work. You…
Ammonia is emerging as a promising energy source to achieve carbon neutrality due to its inherent carbon-free nature. A recent study, led by Professor Hankwon Lim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering and the Graduate School of Carbon Neutrality at UNIST, has evaluated the feasibility of ammonia-based power generation through techno-economic and carbon footprint analyses. The research focuses on an integrated system combining ammonia decomposition and phosphoric acid fuel cells. The study, conducted using a commercial process simulator, unveils significant findings regarding the efficiency and economic viability of utilizing ammonia in power generation systems. Results indicate an impressive…
Is Intelligence about to lose one of its own when Chicago P.D. returns for its 11th season? That’s what the NBC drama left us wondering, with the Season 10 finale wrapping up Ruzek’s (Patrick John Flueger) undercover assignment. The white supremacists, including Richard Beck, were stopped, yes, but his grandson, shot Ruzek. Wanting to protect her son, the kid’s mother took him and fled, leaving the officer bleeding out. It took much too long for our comfort for Ruzek to finally reach Burgess (Marina Squerciati). He was alive when he was taken to the hospital, but it’s unclear what happened after he went…
The once strong-willed icon has become a proverbial punching bag on ‘And Just Like That…’. Can her style evolution save her? By Natalie Michie Date August 18, 2023 From the moment And Just Like That… entered the zeitgeist, fans have been mourning Miranda Hobbes. She didn’t pass away — but something about her felt lost. RELATED: What’s Up With Aidan and Carrie’s Outfits in And Just Like That…? Of all the Sex and the City women, Miranda — played by Cynthia Nixon — was once uniquely aspirational. Throughout the original show’s six-season run, she rejected expectations of femininity and looked…
House of the Dragon will take four full seasons to depict the Targaryen saga. On his personal blog, author George R.R. Martin wrote about the latest episode in the Game of Thrones prequel series, “The Lord of the Tides,” commending actor Paddy Considine’s portrayal of King Viserys, alongside the crew. Further down, he addressed the time jumps, noting co-showrunner Ryan J. Condal has handled it “very well,” and that it would take four seasons of 10 episodes each to complete the tale.“If House of the Dragon had 13 episodes per season, maybe we could have shown all the things we…
Credit: University of Tsukuba In the intense male–male competition for females, males often develop alternative reproductive tactics to achieve successful reproduction through unconventional means. These tactics often arise from their own condition and surroundings. However, if mothers can predict the situations their sons will encounter based on their own condition and the surrounding environment, maternal effects are likely to play a significant role in their sons’ reproductive tactics. These findings have been published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. In this study, researchers focused on the social environment, such as the sex ratio, as a predictor of the intensity…
Travis Scott is back and he’s bringing his “Utopia Presents Circus Maximus Tour” across North America this fall and winter, including two dates at the Kaseya Center in Miami this November. Originally, Scott was only going to be in Miami for one night, but now that the first date is sold-out, he’s added a second one (something he did for a handful of cities on the tour). Tickets are going fast, but this guide will give you all the info you need to secure your seats, stress-free. Read all the details below, and grab your tickets here. How Can I…
Pirates of the Caribbean is a massive film franchise, but it’s existed in a bit of a limbo for a while now. Hopefully a weird sequel is just what it needs.The last movie in the series, Dead Men Tell No Tales, was released in 2017. Amidst assorted tabloid scandals involving star Johnny Depp, another movie was not considered for a while. Back in 2022, when asked if Depp would appear in the next Pirates movie, producer Jerry Bruckheimer responded in the negative.For a while, the future of the series was unknown. Margot Robbie was brought on for a a while, and rumors…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Fractured Soul? The idea for the story came from thinking about shapeshifters. How they work. How a shapeshifter assassin could be effective by stealing other people’s identities. That turned into what happens when the shapeshifter who has stolen all these identities is suddenly free from the organization that employed him. What does he do? Try to get his life back before he was turned into a monster. But what if all the people he killed were still in him? A host of different souls that all want to have…
Justin Long has had an excellent variety of roles throughout his career. He’s been in horrors, comedies, and everything in between. The actor plays Nathan Bratt on the Disney+/Hulu reboot of Goosebumps. In the first trailer, Nathan finds himself possessed by a spirit that may or may not be tied to the overarching mystery of the new series. We love a good mystery! “Plunging viewers into a world of mystery and suspense, the new Goosebumps series follows a group of five high schoolers as they embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier…
PHYSICS PIONEER “A Hidden Variable behind Entanglement,” Michelle Frank’s article on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s early work on entanglement, was such an amazing story and so beautifully written. Wu’s contribution to science despite the challenges she faced for recognition and career progression is so inspirational. The photograph of her sitting in the front row at a particle physics conference really got me. Powerful stuff. JACQUI GILMOUR via e-mail Thank you for Frank’s revealing article on our society’s gender bias against Wu. The article states that she boarded a ship for California in 1936 and that “at the University of California, Berkeley,…
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Chipmaker Intel is planning a major reduction in headcount, likely numbering in the thousands, in the face of a slowdown in the personal computer market, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the situation.The layoffs will be announced as early as this month and some of Intel’s divisions, including the sales and marketing group, could see cuts affecting about 20 percent of staff, according to the report.The company had 113,700 employees as of July, Bloomberg News said.Intel declined to comment on the job cuts.The company in July slashed its annual sales and profit forecasts after missing estimates…
Great songs have a life of their own. Consider “I Will Always Love You.” Dolly Parton’s original is the stuff of legend. Whitney Houston’s cover for the all-conquering The Bodyguard soundtrack, iconic. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Now, there’s the Roland Abante’s heart-wrenching rendition for America’s Got Talent. Abante, a fisherman from the Philippines, left nothing to chance as he belted out the classic ballad, hitting an array of high notes, with force, control and enough feel to touch everyone in the room. A standing ovation awaited. “Look at everyone here.…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was one of 2022’s best video games, and now the Dimension Shellshock DLC makes it even better. While there sadly aren’t any new story levels, it features a bit of everything else as it features a replayable survival mode, new music, some additional skins, and two playable characters. The two new characters will be familiar to TMNT fans: Usagi Yojimbo protagonist Miyamoto Usagi and Foot Clan member Karai. Both are great additions with stylish move sets. Usagi uses his sword and measured fighting style to slash through enemies, while Karai can dart in and…
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim What’s it About? An extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Angie Kim’s Happiness Falls (Hogarth) expertly balances a page-turning plot, beautiful writing, and memorable characters to tell a story of love, family, and the importance of communication as the Parkson family tries to figure out what happened to their missing father. Kim captures our attention immediately with her choice of Mia as our narrator. Mia is — by her own admission — more analytical than emotional and more prone to…
A paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hints at the existence of several black holes in the Hyades cluster — the closest open cluster to our solar system — which would make them the closest black holes to Earth ever detected. The study results from a collaboration between a group of scientists led by Stefano Torniamenti, from the University of Padua (Italy), with the significant participation of with Mark Gieles, ICREA professor at the Faculty of Physics, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies…
Prepare to take flight as Hallmark Media introduces a one-of-a-kind sky-high romance. Hallmark has a history of showcasing the military in their movies, and Come Fly with Me takes the tradition to new heights. We’re used to seeing the military representing the heart of America, the pride in our accomplishments, and, most importantly, how we all care for the community at large. Most of these movies, such as Holiday for Heroes, My Grown-Up Christmas List, or Welcome Home Warrior, use a holiday backdrop to explore family and charity. Come Fly With Me, premiering Friday, September 15 on Hallmark Movies &…
As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work.There’s nothing cozier than being wrapped up in a warm sweater when it’s chilly outside — and that reality is nearly upon us. Sweaters are one of the most versatile pieces to have in your wardrobe since they can be layered underneath winter coats or over dresses and blouses. We love having a handful of different styles on hand — from stylish cardigans to crewneck…
Twitter is reviewing its policies around permanently banning users, possibly bringing its content moderation in line with Elon Musk’s vision for the social media platform, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Twitter has been exploring if there are other content moderation tools that could replace a ban, its harshest penalty for violating rules, the newspaper said, citing multiple people familiar with the situation.Back in May, shortly after inking a $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crore) deal to buy Twitter, Musk had pledged changes to the social media platform’s content moderation practices.Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had also said…