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Middle-Earth:Shadow of War Developer: Monolith Productions Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Price: ₹3,499 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Talion and the wraith celebrity residing in him, Celebrimbor, sounded understandably overconfident about springing a particularly stupid Uruk's trap. So we sauntered directly into the trap and out jumps Bubol the Diseased, with his disgusting pus glands rupturing as he taunted me. With the worst timing ever, Krunk, an orc sporting metal bandages, decided to stop by for some revenge. To top it off an Uruk named Ogg showed up with his Captain pals, hurt because they haven’t been hunted. Seriously! So it's five Captains along with their henchmen against just one of me. None of this is scripted, it just happened. It’s just another day in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. What's it about? Shadow of War force fits itself into the Lord of the Rings canon by telling the untold story of a War of the Rings way before t

London’s Science Museum on Tuesday unveiled a new exhibition that traces India’s contribution to science and technology over the past 5,000 years. Bringing together pieces from scientific institutes and museums across India as well as those held by British institutions, the Indian High Commission and the museum hope to be able to bring the exhibition to India too. The highlight is a folio from the Bakhshali manuscript, loaned to the exhibition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, which contains the oldest recorded origins of the symbol “zero”. Dated to 3rd century In September, the Bodleian revealed that new carbon dating research into the manuscript revealed it to be hundreds of years older than originally thought and that it could be dated back to the third or fourth century. Another remarkable piece is an 1817 version of Jambudvipa, or Jain map of the world, and a spectrometer from 1928 designed by Nobel Prize winner C.V. Raman. The exhibition also covers significant rec

State-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) today said it would procure 10,000 electric vehicles from Tata Motors after a competitive bidding. Tata Motors will supply the electric vehicles in two phases with 500 e-cars in the first phase in November 2017 and the remaining 9,500 EVs in the second phase, EESL said. “The company (Tata Motors) was selected through an international competitive bidding aimed at increased participation,” it said. EESL said Tata Motors quoted the lowest price of Rs 10.16 lakh exclusive of GST. The vehicle will be provided for Rs 11.2 lakh, which will be inclusive of GST and comprehensive 5-year warranty, — 25 per cent below the current retail price of a similar e-car with 3-year warranty. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and Nissan had also participated in the tender and bids for Tata Motors and M&M were opened, it added.  EESL claimed that its tender was for the world’s largest single electric vehicle procurement. The company, which com