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NDTV
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
KBC 17: Contestant Takes Home Rs 5 Lakh After Getting A Rs 12.50 Lakh Question Wrong. Do You Know The Right Answer?
Amitabh Bachchan is back for Kaun Banega Crorepati season 17. The quiz-based reality show premiered on Monday, August 11, on Sony TV and is also available to watch on the OTT platform SonyLIV. The second episode saw contestant Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax from Balia, Uttar Pradesh, take the hot seat. After successfully answering 11 questions, he was unable to give the correct answer for the 12th question which could have earned him Rs 12.50 lakh. The question was, "Which award, founded by tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, is nicknamed the 'Oscars of Science'?" The four options were - A) Edison Prize, B) Breakthrough Prize, C) Millennium Prize and D) Eureka Award. Since the contestant did not have any lifelines left, he took a risk and picked Option C) Millennium, which turned out to be incorrect. After losing the Rs 12.50 lakh question, the participant went home with a prize money of Rs 5 lakh. The correct answer to the question was Option B -- Breakthrough Prize. FYI: The Breakthrough Prize, established in 2013, is an annual award that recognises outstanding achievements and contributions of scientists in fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, former Google chief Sergey Brin, genomics company 23&Me founder Anne Wojcicki, and tech investor couple Yuri and Julia Milner. This year, the Breakthrough Prize ceremony was held in Santa Monica, California, in April. The event saw the attendance of prominent figures, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster and Zoe Saldana, to name a few. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were also present. Coming to KBC 17, the first contestant of this season, Manavpreet Singh decided to quit the game after winning Rs 25 lakh. The reason was that he did not know the answer to this question: "To which South American author did Rabindranath Tagore dedicate his poetry collection Purabi?" The options were as follows: A) Gabriela Mistral, B) Victoria Ocampo, C) Maria Luisa Bombal, D) Teresa de la Parra. Read all about it here.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Kaun Banega Crorepati 17: Amitabh Bachchan hails India's recent victory against England at the Oval test; says 'Abhi joh maara hai na hum ne angrezon ko mazaa aagaya yaar...'
The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 17 started with host Amitabh Bachchan entering the stage with the rollover contestant Ashutosh Kumar Pandey. As they took their seats, he recalled the time when he arrived for the first time on July 3, 2000 to host the show. He remembered how that the entire team was nervous before the show's launch, as KBC featured no songs or dance—only questions. He revealed that he was worried about his future and if the audience will accept him as a host on television after a successful acting career in films. Mr. Bachchan resumed the game with rollover contestant Ashutosh Kumar Pandey from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, who works as a Deputy Commissioner in the Income Tax Department. Big B read the first question for the evening for Rs 50,000. In which of these films does Ajay Devgn play Amay Patnaik, an Indian Revenue Service officer? He goes with Option D) Raid. After answering all the next questions correctly with the help of lifelines, Ashutosh wins Rs 7,20,000. He next faces the question for Rs 12,50,000. Which award, founded by tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, is nicknamed the 'Oscars of Science'? As he has exhausted all his lifelines, he decides to take a risk and selects Option C) Millennium prize but it turns out to be incorrect. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like No annual fees for life UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo The correct answer is Option B) Breakthrough prize and Ashutosh takes home Rs 5,00,000. After Ashutosh leaves the hot seat. host Amitabh Bachchan announces Fastest Finger First round. Harshit Sharma and Vijay Anand get selected for 'Jaldi 5' and Vijay manages to answer five answers correctly and makes it to the hot seat. Vijay manages to answer the few initial questions correctly but gets stuck at Rs 3,00,000 question. He takes the help of 'Audience Poll' lifeline. Which word completes the following infantry unit names of the Indian Army- Ladakh, Arunachal and Sikkim? He selects Option A) Scouts. While chatting with Vijay, Mr. Bachchan asked him to recall a moment when he felt he had made his parents truly happy. Vijay shared that his parents come from a modest background, and there were times when their meals consisted of only rotis because they couldn't afford anything else. In 2024, on his parents' wedding anniversary, the family went to a restaurant for the first time ever. Fulfilling a long-cherished wish, he took them out for dinner, telling them not to check the menu prices and to order whatever they liked. They enjoyed a hearty meal followed by ice cream, making it a celebration to remember. Hearing this, Big B narrated the incident from his personal life when he took his parents to a restaurant. Mr Bachchan said, "This man sitting in front of you also had a day like that when he ate at a restaurant for the first time. Moti Mahal is a very fine restaurant in Delhi, and I went there for the first time in my life — and that too after I had finished college. I went with my parents, and I still haven't forgotten that moment, just like you haven't forgotten yours. I had earned a little by then, so I took them there. But I was very nervous — thinking this is a big restaurant where only well-off people go, and that we wouldn't fit in. If we went, how would people look at us? What would happen? How would our clothes be? What would people say? All these thoughts ran through my mind, so I can completely understand your situation." The host next resumed the game and presented the question for Rs 5,00,000. Who is the first Indian cricketer to hit 300 sixes in the IPL? Vijay selects Option B) Rohit Sharma and wins the amount. Big B then goes on to praise the Indian cricket team and says, "Bhai sahab kuch bhi kahiye, abhi joh maara hai na hum logon ne angrezon ko kya mazaa aagaya yaar. Kisi ko umeed nahi thi humare khiladiyon se lekin dekho khade hogaye ek dum. Arre sir ye adbhut khel tha..." (Bhai sahab, no matter what you say, the way we just defeated the English — it was pure joy! No one had expected this from our players, but look at how they stood tall. Sir, this was an extraordinary game…) Big B teases Vijay to get married after his mother shows her wish to get her son married. Vijay next faces the questions for 'Super Sandook' and manages to answer seven questions correctly. He wins Rs 70,000 and decides to revive his 'Audience Poll' lifeline. Amitabh Bachchan reads the question for Rs 7,50,000. In February 2025, Kash Patel became the ninth director of which US government agency? As Vijay is not sure of the answer, he takes the help of the audience poll and goes with Option D) FBI and wins the amount. For the next question of Rs 12,50,000, he takes the help of his 50-50 lifeline. Though it is called a sea, which is actually the largest salt lake on Earth? He selects Option C) Caspian sea and it is the correct answer. Vijay next faces the question for Rs 25,00,000. According to the Guinness World Records, which of these has the thickest skin of any living animal? The contestant uses his last lifeline 'Sanket Suchak' and Big B provides him with a hint. However, he is not able to guess the answer and decides to quit the show. After quitting the show, he makes a guess and selects Option A) Whale Shark. Vijay takes home Rs 12,50,000 and the episode comes to an end. How KBC changed Harshvardhan Nawathe's life...
New Indian Express
28-05-2025
- Science
- New Indian Express
University of Hyderabad in spotlight after LHC bags ‘science Oscar'
HYDERABAD: The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics — often called the 'Oscars of Science' — has been awarded to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN, in which researchers from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have long played a key role, highlighting India's growing contribution to global science. At the heart of this international collaboration is the team led by Dr Bhawna Gomber at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Electronics Science and Technology, School of Physics. Her group made significant contributions to the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, one of the flagship detectors at the LHC. Explaining CMS's role within the LHC, Dr Bhawna Gomber told TNIE, 'CMS is a general-purpose detector, playing a crucial role in probing both standard model phenomena and physics beyond the Standard Model. In fact, both CMS and its counterpart ATLAS confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.' She added, 'Our team is involved in both physics analysis—particularly the search for dark matter using proton-proton collision data — and the development of firmware for the calorimeter trigger system, as part of the detector's Phase-2 upgrade.' The group's work spans cutting-edge domains including data analysis, trigger electronics, and high-energy particle interactions, contributing significantly to the success of the CMS project.
Indian Express
06-05-2025
- Science
- Indian Express
IISER Pune researchers among laureates of 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, faculty members Professor Seema Sharma and Professor Sourabh Dube, along with 23 past and present research team members, have been selected as laureates of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Sharma and Dube are members of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration. The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, involving about 5,500 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 241 institutes in 54 countries. Along with CMS, this year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to three other large global collaborations, namely, ALICE, ATLAS, and LHCb, at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), located in Geneva, Switzerland. 'Each of these collaborations consists of thousands of researchers worldwide working towards understanding the fundamental nature of particles and in identifying and characterising new particles,' an official statement issued by IISER Pune said on Tuesday. The Breakthrough Prizes are prestigious awards, often referred to as the 'Oscars of Science', given annually in the fields of Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics to recognise groundbreaking achievements in science. As members of the CMS from IISER Pune, the research groups of professors Sharma and Dube and others involved in the work are laureates. Also included are IISER Pune alumni, some of whom did their MS thesis in the CMS group and a few others who have gone on to take up research roles in other large collaborations elsewhere. According to IISER, Pune's statement, Dube's research focuses on the search for beyond standard model phenomena, which aim to address the open problems in particle physics. Sharma's group focused on searching for new elementary particles which can shed light on yet unanswered questions like dark matter, hierarchy problem, and matter-antimatter asymmetry, to name a few, the statement added. The CMS experiment is a multi-purpose detector which studies proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC is the highest energy particle accelerator in the world and recreates conditions that presumably existed in the first few millionths of seconds after the Big Bang. The primary goal of their research is to explain the nature of matter and the physical laws that govern the fundamental interactions.
New York Times
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Seth Rogen's Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast
What could happen when a comedic actor known for being outspoken on politics presents an award at a science event attended by some of Silicon Valley's major players with connections to the Trump administration? That depends. Organizers of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony, sometimes called the 'Oscars of Science,' cut Seth Rogen's jokes about President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, from the broadcast it posted on YouTube. Nearly 90 minutes into the event, which was attended by Jeff Bezos and the founding sponsors Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, Rogen and Edward Norton took the stage. But before giving out a prize to the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, Mr. Rogen chose to make a few remarks. 'It's amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science,' Mr. Rogen said, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which was a media sponsor of the April 5 event. 'It's amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast.' It is unclear what Mr. Rogen was referring to with the $320 million. But the Trump administration has gutted or frozen billions of dollars in federal grants made to researchers through the National Institutes of Health, and has moved to curb funding for academic medical centers and other institutions. It has also, through the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk, tried to fire hundreds of workers at the National Science Foundation, a federal agency. Officials have also recommended the elimination of the scientific research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The edited version of Mr. Rogen's remarks on YouTube skip the jokes and start with an explanation of Mr. 't Hooft's childhood and his contributions to science. Mr. Rogen could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday, but a statement the Breakthrough Prize gave to The Hollywood Reporter said the cuts to the YouTube broadcast were made because of time constraints. 'This year's ceremony lasted longer than the prior few years, and several edits were made in order to meet the originally planned run time,' the statement said. It was unclear whether anything else was trimmed from the video. This year's Breakthrough Prize event honored scientists who drove discoveries in gene editing, human diseases and, in Mr. 't Hooft's case, the fundamental particles of the universe. More than $18 million in prizes were awarded.
