Rihanna sues her father for exploiting her name in pricey deals

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January 16, 2019

Singer Rihanna filed a lawsuit against her father, Ronald Fenty, for exploiting her name in million-dollar business deals.

Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has sued her father and his business partner, Moses Perkins, for an invasion of privacy and “egregiously and fraudulently” misrepresenting that their company, Fenty Entertainment, is affiliated with the singer.

According to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, the singer has nothing to do with her father’s company.

“Although Fenty is Rihanna’s father, he does not have, and never has had, authority to act on Rihanna’s behalf,” reads the suit.

Fraudulent bookings, the lawsuit states, include a USD 15 million tour in Latin America, along with two concerts in Los Angeles and one in Las Vegas for USD 400,000.

In the lawsuit, Rihanna claims that she has nothing to do with those bookings.

She added that the lawsuit that she has used the name Fenty for her cosmetics and other businesses since 2012; Fenty Entertainment was started in 2017.

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry share a sweet moment with blind fans

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January 16, 2019

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently shared a heartwarming moment with some blind royal fans.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spent some time walking around Hamilton Square in Birkenhead, Merseyside and were spotted chatting with fans and well-wishers along the way.

The couple had one special moment with a fan that instantly went viral on the internet. One attendee shared on Twitter an interaction that her blind niece had with the Royals. The person named Tracey Marie posted two pictures near Meghan and Harry. In one of the pictures, the prince gently held onto a girl in a purple parka and black beanie. The second photo featured Meghan touching a card written in Braille.

“The little girl with the grey hat with a black bobble (My niece who is blind) Harry held on to her ensuring she was safe. Meghan went down on the floor to take a card she had made for her in braille.” Tracey described on Twitter.

She also added that “They’ll make great parents.”

According to an leading portal, some blind children were also allowed to touch the Duke and Duchess’ face. Frank Field, a Member of Parliament from the area, told the magazine a bit more about the special moment shared by the blind fans.

“In the square, there were some blind children who wanted to touch the royal faces because they couldn’t see them. Both of them went down on their haunches so the children could touch their faces,” he explained.

Paris Jackson seeks help for ’emotional health’ issues

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January 16, 2019

Paris Jackson has recently entered a treatment facility seeking help for issues related to her emotional health.

The daughter of the late Michael Jackson is currently living in a health facility in the hopes of improving her emotional health.

A source told an online portal, “After a busy year of work engagements that took her all over the globe, Paris decided that she needed to take some time off to reboot, realign and prioritise her physical and emotional health.”

“She checked herself into a treatment facility to aid in her wellness plan and is looking forward to coming out of this revitalised and ready to tackle the exciting new projects that await her,” the insider shared.

Followers of the young star started worrying and speculating that the 20-year-old model was facing issues when she suddenly stopped sharing photos on social media in mid-December. Furthermore, she did not appear to have joined her family for a vacation to Tokyo, Japan over the holidays either.

Paris has had a whirlwind year filled with photo shoots, public appearances and the start of her music career. The year also saw her losing her grandfather Joe Jackson.

Paris had made headlines in September 2018 for calling out the paparazzi who were clamouring to get a shot of her face as she left New York Fashion Week show.

She told fans on Twitter, “I just got yelled at in a really mean way outside the tom ford show because paparazzi didn’t get a chance to shoot my face. (For those of you that don’t know, paps don’t get paid unless my face is in the shot.)”

Through the years, Paris has been quite open about her battle with depression and anxiety. She has previously touched upon her struggles with self-confidence, which drove her to attempt committing suicide when she was just 13-years-old.

The online portal cited a Rolling Stone interview from 2017 where she said, “I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help.”

MLA Baldev Singh resigns, says AAP has lost its ‘basic ideology’

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January 16, 2019

Baldev Singh, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Jaito, resigned from the primary membership of the party on Wednesday.

In his letter, Baldev cited, as a result of your dictatorial, arrogant and autocratic style of functioning, pioneers of AAP like Prashant Bhushan, Yogender Yadav, Medha Patikar, Kiran Bedi, Dr. Gandhi, H.S.Khalsa, Sucha Singh Chottepur, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Ashish Khetan, Ashutosh, H.S.Phoolka etc. have all left the party or have been thrown out in a humiliating manner.

Baldev said that he was deeply shocked when the AAP chief “unceremoniously and undemocratically” removed an honest Sukhpal Singh Khaira from the post of as Leader of Opposition (LoP), without taking Punjab MLA’s into confidence.

He further added, your meek apology to the drug tainted former Minister Bikram Singh Majithia further revealed your double standards in politics. Your duplicity on the vital issue of Punjab river waters also puts you on the same pedestal of cunning leaders of India. You have blatantly gone back on the most important promise of Swaraj, by centralising all powers with yourself. You have also thrown to winds the constitution of the party merely to remain Convenor and continue your grip on the party.

Singh said that Kejriwal’s hobnobbing and flirting with the Congress is yet another example of sheer political opportunism that has left the people of India bewildered.

Kamal Haasan to join hands with like-minded people and parties

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January 16, 2019

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Wednesday said that his party was willing to join hands with like-minded parties who are against corruption and focused on making Tamil Nadu a progressive state.

The Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) is ready to join hands with those parties, who dream to make Tamil Nadu a progressive State and also corruption-free, Haasan told reporters at nearby Pollachi after inaugurating the party office there.

When asked about him contesting the Lok Sabha elections, he said that it would be decided by the party. The party would discuss all these issues in detail since it was formed for the benefit of Tamil Nadu and not individuals, the MNM chief added

Railway Ministry to start online FIR filling facility for passengers: Rajnath Singh

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January 16, 2019

There is no facility for a passenger to file an FIR online. If somebody is travelling by train and something happens in-between then, he need to visit Government Railway Police (GRP) station to get an FIR registered. Then it goes to the state, to the district and eventually to the concerned police station. There is no guarantee that he would get the desired justice at the end. Asserting that the jurisdiction issues at times, cause harassment to the people, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday and asked the railway ministry to start a facility by which passengers can file FIRs online.

There has to be a provision for the passengers to file the FIR electronically. You (Railway Ministry official) need to discuss and decide on this (online FIR). We will provide all possible support from the Ministry of Home Affairs, he added, citing the ‘crime and criminal tracking network and system or CCTNS’ for the integration of state police work implemented by his ministry.

Singh also said that he would look into whether the online filing of FIRs by railway passengers can be integrated into the CCTNS system that allows citizens to lodge FIRs electronically. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, who was present at the event, said that he would look into the home minister’s suggestion of online filing of the FIR.

According to an official data, about 24,000 cases of theft are registered by railway passengers annually. In a veiled remark, Rajnath Singh asked the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel to be sensitive and friendly with people. The railway has a huge network. Trains passes through Naxal-(affected) areas. There may be a fear of terrorist attack. There should be theatre-specific SOPs to guide police personnel on how to act in a specific situation. It is expected from all police personnel. Be it central or state police force, all police force personnel behavior with common people should be friendly. We have been telling these to them and we also need to change the way people’s luggage are frisked at railway stations or inside moving trains. There is a provision for frisking of passenger luggage at railway stations. Their luggage is also frisked inside moving trains. Passengers feel humiliated by this. So, how can this be improved? That needs to be discussed.

The home minister said that there was a need to make the presence of Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel felt in the railway network. There has to be regular patrolling in trains. At times, it has been observed that it does not take place, so how to make RPF’s presence felt? You need to discuss it too.

Milky Way galaxy is due for huge collision in 2 billion years: Study

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January 16, 2019

Astronomers have long estimated that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way galaxy around 8 billion years from now.

Now, they believe that another collision may happen even sooner, a CNN report cited.

According to a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years.

The impact, they say, has a chance of sending the Milky Way “hurtling through space.”

Speaking about it, Marius Cautun, study author and postdoctoral fellow at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in a statement, “The destruction of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as it is devoured by the Milky Way, will wreak havoc with our galaxy, waking up the black hole that lives at its centre and turning our galaxy into an ‘active galactic nucleus’ or quasar.”

Cautun went on to add, “This phenomenon will generate powerful jets of high energy radiation emanating from just outside the black hole.”

He further said. “While this will not affect our Solar System, there is a small chance that we might not escape unscathed from the collision between the two galaxies which could knock us out of the Milky Way and into interstellar space.”

While 2 billion years may sound like a long time for us, it is much less than the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years. The Milky Way galaxy itself is about 13.5 billion years old.

Alis Deason, co-author of the study and royal society university research fellow at the Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in a statement that they think that up to now the galaxy has had only a few mergers with very low mass galaxies.

Now, a new technique to determine ages of stars more accurately

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January 16, 2019

A new technique for understanding the star-forming history of the Milky Way is unprecedented detail has now made it possible to determine the ages of stars at least two times more precisely.

The study was presented by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the January 10 meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting.

According to Embry-Riddle Physics and Astronomy Professor Dr. Ted von Hippel, current star-dating techniques, based on assessments of stars in the prime or main sequence of their lives that have begun to die after exhausting their hydrogen, offer a 20-percent, or at best a 10-percent margin of error. Embry-Riddle’s approach, leveraging burnt-out remnants called white dwarf stars, reduces the margin of error to 5 percent or even 3 percent, he added.

Dr. Ted von Hippel went on to say that for the method to work, his team must measure the star’s surface temperature, whether it has a hydrogen or helium atmosphere, and it’s mass.

Dr. von Hippel said, “The star’s mass matters because objects with greater mass have more energy and take longer to cool,” adding, “Surface temperature, like spent coals in a campfire that’s gone out, offer clues to how long ago the fire died. Finally, knowing whether there is hydrogen or helium at the surface is important because helium radiates heat away from the star more readily than hydrogen.”

Now, astronomers have a new method to determine white dwarf masses and takes advantage of data captured by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite.

Von Hippel, with recent Embry-Riddle graduate Adam Moss, current students Isabelle Kloc, Jimmy Sargent and Natalie Moticksa, and instructor Elliot Robinson, used highly precise Gaia measurements of the distance of stars.

The Gaia measurements, based on the geometry of two different lines of site or “parallaxes” to objects, helped Embry-Riddle researchers determine the radius of stars based on their brightness.

Sunscreen, cosmetics compound harming coral: Study

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January 16, 2019

Wearing sunscreen and cosmetics to the beach might seem like a good idea for your skin and beauty, but it is certainly not good for the corals, a recent study has revealed.

According to several research studies, up to 14,000 tons of sunscreen end up in the world’s oceans every year.

To protect coral reefs, the state of Hawaii recently banned sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate, two chemicals known to harm coral, with the law set to take effect in January 2021.

Another substance, OC, can be found in cosmetics such as hair sprays and conditioners, as well as sunscreens. Although OC is toxic to coral at high concentrations, Didier Stien, Philippe Lebaron and colleagues wondered how it would affect coral at levels more likely to be encountered in the environment.

To study this phenomenon further, the researchers exposed coral to OC at various concentrations for a week. They found that the coral was sensitive to the compound at concentrations of 50 micrograms per litre and greater, which is about 10 times higher than levels measured in the ocean.

The study was published in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry.

OC accumulated in the coral as fatty acid conjugates, which may interfere with the organism’s metabolism. The team also detected increased levels of acylcarnitines in the exposed corals, which are produced under conditions of abnormal fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction. The researchers say that levels of OC in the ocean might have been underestimated previously because these measurements did not take into account OC fatty acid esters.

Although sunscreen is critical for preventing sunburns and skin cancer, some of its ingredients are not so beneficial to ocean-dwelling creatures.

In particular, sunscreen chemicals shed by swimmers are thought to contribute to coral reef decline.

4 killed in bus-truck collision in Maharashtra

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January 16, 2019

At least four people were killed and some others injured when a state transport bus collided with a truck in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, police said.

The accident took place around 8.30 am when the truck and the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus collided near Gurupalli village in Gadchiroli, located around 170 km from here, Deputy Superintendent of Police Shashikant Bhosle told agencies.

Four people, including a student, died in the mishap, he said.

The number of injured was not yet clear.

Bhosle said the victims were rushed to a local hospital for treatment.

Further details were awaited.