Tag Archives: 2014

The Miss Universe beauty pageant will see all the 88 contestants vying for the top honour of being crowned Miss Universe 2014 in few minutes from now at Florida International University, Miami-Doral in Florida. The 63rd Annual Miss Universe Pageant will see outgoing Miss Univese Gabriela Isler from Venezuela, the third winner from the country in the last six years ...

The NASA climate scientists who claimed 2014 was the hottest year on record, now reportedly say that the likelihood that 2014 was the warmest year since 1880 is only 38 per cent sure. As per the reports by Daily Mail, it is now emerging that the analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is subject to a margin ...

For the last one decade, NASA has been reporting that the year that ended was the warmest in a century and continues to say again that the year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, collaborating two reports by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. The 10 warmest years, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred ...

By Siddharth Jha  New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Indian actresses were on a roll in 2014. Ranging from the serious to the dramatic, action-oriented to comic, Bollywood’s leading ladies vivified their personas with novel scripts and made the movie-viewing experience all the more thrilling and entertaining. Here is a list of the top female performers of 2014 in Bollywood: 1. ...

The landing of European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on a comet tops the list of 10 breakthroughs of 2014, the prestigious journal Science announced in its December issue. Rosetta and its lander module Philae made major headlines in November when Philae touched down on the surface of the speeding comet. The landing was rougher than expected as Philae bounced off ...

Malayalam cinema has pushed the envelope content-wise. At the box-office, the films did fairly well compared to Telugu and Tamil industries. The biggest Malayalam hit of the year was Anjali Menon-directed “Bangalore Days”. “Most Malayalam films are produced under the budget of Rs.10 crore. Rarely will you find a film made on a higher budget,” distributor Arvind Nambiar told IANS. ...

Small was big down south. Low budget films, which were high on creative content, emerged as the real winners in 2014. Offerings like “Yaamirukka Bayamey” and “Karthikeya” not only set the cash registers ringing but also spelt profit for the investors in the southern filmdom, which otherwise registered a mere five percent hits out of about 500 releases. Biggies like ...

Time to buy waht you have failed to buy when Apple unveiled some of the latest iPads or iPhones or iMac with the heavy discount for Back Friday at major retailers — Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, Target and others. Apple fans may rejoice buying this season what they missed last time and many of them are braving to go onto ...

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS) announced on Friday that it has reached agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) in the United Kingdom for failings in relation to the 2012 I.T. incident. RBS has agreed a penalty of £42m with the FCA and £14m with the PRA. Both these payments are covered ...

Former Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was a darling of the Japanese that everytime he is out of power, they take the opportunity to honour him with one award or the other. When he was not a finance minister and the Congress was out of power in 1997, he was conferred the Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth and ...