Amitabh and Salman Tied Up in The Forbes' Highest-Paid Celebrity List

Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni are among the world’s 100 highest-paid celebrities, says the Forbes’ annual list.

Forbes compiled its annual list of the most powerful celebrities from the worlds of sports, television, music and books by estimating pre-tax earnings from June 1, 2014 to June, 1 2015. Management, agent and attorney fees were not deducted.

Boxers Floyd Mayweather with estimated $300 million in earnings and Manny Pacquiao, $160 million, topped Forbes’ list, on the heels of their lucrative clash in Las Vegas last month. As their final earnings from the May 2 bout have not yet been disclosed, Forbes' estimates were based on what experts have described as the richest fight in boxing history.

"His (Mayweather's) $300 million shattered the record for athlete earnings, which was previously held by Tiger Woods who managed to bank $115 million in 2008," Natalie Robehmed, of Forbes, said in an interview. "It is above and beyond anything anyone has ever done."

Singer Katy Perry's massive Prismatic World Tourhelped her nab third place with $135 million, followed by British boy band One Direction with $130 million and TV and radio host Howard Stern with $95 million.

Musicians and athletes dominated the top 10 spots which included only two women. Country music star Garth Brooks was No. 6 with $90 million, while pop singer Taylor Swift tied for No. 8 with actor Robert Downey Jr. with $80 million and soccer player Christiano Ronaldo was at 10^th position with $79.5 million.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian, who earned $28 million in the previous list, nearly doubled her earnings to an estimated $52.5 million, according to Forbes.

"I personally think she has been able to monetize fame better than anybody else," said Robehmed. "A large percentage of her earnings come from her iPhone game."

Kardashian placed just above Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence who was No. 34 with $52 million. Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson, No. 65 with $35.5 million, are the only two film actresses to make the 100 list, compared to 14 male movie stars.

Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are tied for the 71st rank with annual earnings of $33.5 million each. Akshay Kumar stands at 76 with $32.5 million while cricketer MS Dhoni occupies 82nd rank with $31 million.

British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay at No. 21 with $60 million was the highest earning chef ever on the list, which included 38 musicians, 29 athletes, six personalities and two comedians.

For the full list, click this link: www.forbes.com/celebrities

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Global Survey: Hyderabad is The Best City to Live in India

      The city of pearls Hyderabad becomes the best city to live in the country, as per a global survey, pushing behind India’s most desirable business centers like Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.

        Based on the standard of living, Hyderabad ranks at 138th position worldwide in a list of 230 cities, According to Mercer’s, a consultancy firm, Quality of Living Report-2015. Consecutively for the second year, Austria’s capital Vienna wears the crown again.

      Besides Hyderabad, the list has seven Indian cities — Pune at 145, Bangalore at 146, Chennai at 151, Mumbai at 152, New Delhi at 154 and Kolkata at 160.

      The parameters considered for the report include social and political environment, public services, natural environment, medical and health care, and recreation facilities among others.

      Over time, because of its improved options for international standard of living and a fine choice to pick reputable English speaking schools and international schools, Hyderabad has become a city choice, Mercer reported.

In addition to this, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is located at just 22 kms from the city and offers an awesome number of connected flights, which improves its ranking on the global list for its outstanding services.

       Considerable population, increased in Mumbai and New Delhi in the recent years, has increased existing problems, which means access to air pollution, clean water and traffic congestion, Ruchika Pal, Mercer India Practice Leader, mentioned.

      On the global arena, Vienna is followed by Zurich, Auckland, Munich, Vancouver, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Copenhagen and Sydney.

Bangui of Central African Republic and Baghdad of Iraq were rated as the last two cities on the list.

      It is worthy to note that the survey found that most of the Indian cities are safer than the cities in South Asia.

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Awesome Video - Imagining Glass Technology in The Future

Here is the video, ‘A Day Made of Glass,’ showing a magnificently hypothetical concept or rather Imagination created by Corning Incorporated, an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics, and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications.

The video shows that what would be your typical day scenario, waking up from the bed in your beautiful luscious estate with your good looking wife side by and as the photovoltaic glass revealing yet another perfect day in pleasant ambiance, in a completely interactive glassy world. Followed by various interactions—with every piece of glass you encounter throughout the day—being touch sensitive, electronic enabled displays.

The video, five and half minutes duration, was created by Corning Inc. and uploaded on YouTube an year ago.

And the video receives a notable comment from a viewer: The car will be largely autonomous, the smart phones will be wearable (and shortly followed by direct neural connections) and the clothes will be printed at home and probably disposable. The world will be point and click whereby items are either printed/produced on the spot or delivered in a very short time. Going to work will be obsolete with most tasks performed by AI robotic systems. Citizens will receive money unit credits and no longer have to work to support lifestyle. Personal entertainment and enrichment activities will become the primary focus of life.

How soon do you think this glass future will be a reality, and what future elements would you like to include?

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Facebook Introduces 'Celebrate Pride' Tool to Support Marriage Equality

Facebook has introduced a new feature that lets users show off their support for marriage equality by superimposing a rainbow over their profile picture.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally announced the Celebrate Pride tool on his personal page following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry, CNET.com reported.

The tool allows users to superimpose a rainbow over their profile picture with a click of a button.

Access the page https://www.facebook.com/celebrateprideto support for marriage equality by superimposing your profile picture with a rainbow.

On Twitter, you can automatically make a tiny rainbow heart appear in your tweet by including the #LoveWins hashtag.

Reference: The Hindu

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Young Lady Beats a Sexual Pervert Hard with Her Slippers

      A much needed backfire from a woman to spread the inspirational courage all over the cities. The TNews Media helps shooting the live and reporting the issue on the Web and the beautiful Necklace Road hosts the show.

       As the video shows, the lady reports in front of TNewsthat the man, more south to 28 years, has been following her for an hour, soon approached her, and straight away admitted that let’s go to the park, spend an hour or two, promising to give hundred rupees.

      Then the woman answered him, not with words anymore, with her slipper untied from the foot and her right hand wearing it, a right strike-back from her to notify here. Holding his collar in one hand, she beat him with her slipper in public, slapping, beating his shoulders, his back and all over the head.

      The wicked man, as a formality, went for pleading and begging, though, in front of the media while she was beating.

      As it looked, the man was not frightened of the public or the media or the law moreover, rather he just felt ashamed at the moment for being in the public and in the camera while beaten up by a woman.

      And to our exclamation, the public around seemed to play statue game, watching the live as if they were watching the TV with lady oriented action movie on the screen.

      After her 30 second action live show-- from the public rather spectators’ point of view—the sex debauchee got his freedom, running away, to practice the same later, what’s the point in considering the gap if anyone insists.

      Instead of their eyes staring, the public could have used their fists and kicks, it could have made her--or every woman—comfortable and feel secured in and happy for the society.

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