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Haryana Minister Anil Vij on Monday had a narrow escape after the suspension of his Mercedes-Benz E200 broke on a highway. The minister was travelling between Ambala Cantt and Gurugram when the suspension broke into two pieces. The incident happened on the Western Peripheral Expressway, which is also known as Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. Escaped miraculously while traveling from Ambala Cantt to Gurugram when shocker of my official @MercedesBenzInd E200 broke into two pieces in moving car on KMP Road…

Males of one wasp species use their genitals as an antipredator defense, mimicking females and jabbing potential attackers with spines mounted on their reproductive organs, a new study has found. While studying the life cycle of mason wasps (Anterhynchium gibbifrons), researcher Misaki Tsujii of Kobe University in Japan felt a “pricking pain” as she handled one of the male insects. At first she thought she’d been stung—a surprise because most males of the insect order Hymenoptera, to which wasps belong, do not have…

The global stockpile of cholera vaccines the World Health Organization helps manage is "currently empty or extremely…

A holiday tradition has emerged in recent years. As the last Halloween decorations come down and you start thinking about Christmas, you encounter a story warning of a Christmas-tree shortage.Such stories have been widespread since at least 2017. “Christmas tree shortage could cost you plenty of green,” declared one such story, on NBC’s “Today Show,” in 2019. It drives many in the industry nuts. They worry it might create bad will, stress out shoppers and even push some to buy artificial trees instead. “Shortage to me…

Last Updated: December 06, 2022, 18:17 ISTAn EasyJet flight bound for the UK from Poland had to be diverted to the Czech Republic due to a report of a “possible bomb" on board, according to a media report.The low-cost British airline’s flight EZY6276 was heading from Krakow to Bristol on Sunday evening but the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing so that law enforcement agencies could sweep the plane for explosives, CNN reported.Also Read: SpiceJet Flight with 197 Passengers Onboard Makes Emergency Landing at…

Image Credit: Striking Distance Studios The first weapon players get is an electro-charged baton. Striking Distance has been clear that Callisto is supposed to be a melee-heavy experience, with “about half” of its combat based on baton-swinging, though there’s just one such weapon in the…

CME Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy, who has been one of Bankman-Fried’s fiercest critics, said he won’t stop crypto-futures trading just because of “one bad actor.” Even as some of Wall Street's old guard has an “I-told-you-so” moment after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, futures exchanges aren't giving up on crypto.CME Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy, who has been one of Bankman-Fried's fiercest critics, said he won't stop crypto-futures trading just because of “one bad actor.”…

–Mrkrono wonders what’s our time worth in the face of increasingly longer games. –GoofierBrute is back with another “Games that Time Forgot”, with this blog about Sonic 3D Blast. –Taterchimp shares their thoughts on Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns. –PhilsPhindings discusses the similarities between the soundtrack of Mega Man X and Jazz music. –PhilsPhindings discusses the similarities between the soundtrack of Final Fantasy and Salsa music. –ChronoLynxx opens this week’s TGIF community thread for random…

Are you on Twitter? Or even the internet in general? Great — then you’ve heard at least a whiff of the crypto drama between FTX and Binance. But since we aren’t all crypto fanatics here, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little confused about the whole situation.Let’s break it down.I don’t usually focus on the latest news in my Success Story podcasts; it just so happened that I got to chat with Dan Roberts from Decrypt in my most recent interview, and he’s one of the most knowledgeable journalists you’ll encounter in the…

Smile director Parker Finn is admitting he has a bit of a soft spot for jump scares, even if certain movie-goers have sworn them off entirely. Finn’s feature-length debut film proved to be one of the biggest runaway hits of the year and has made back its $17 million shoestring budget many times over, to the point that it has now grossed north of $210 million. While Smile featured a great performance from Sosie Bacon and had a worthy message about overcoming trauma and mental illness, it also reveled in well-worn horror…