Islamabad, April 6 (IANS) Pakistan has decided to free 13 more Taliban prisoners as part of an ongoing peace initiative, a leading Pakistani daily reported Saturday. Emerging from a meeting of the government and Taliban negotiating committees, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan urged the the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership to reciprocate to the government’s action […]
Baghdad, April 6 (IANS) At least 41 people were killed and 35 others wounded in violent incidents across Iraq Saturday, mainly in the western province of Anbar, police said. Fifteen Iraqi soldiers were killed in an explosion at a booby-trapped house in the Garma area near Fallujah in Anbar province, some 50 km west of the […]
Los Angeles, April 6 (IANS) Actor Kevin Spacey loves his unconventional career and he likes when people think that he is “nuts”. “People thought I was crazy 11 years ago when I moved to London and started a theater company…People thought we were crazy when we made the Netflix deal for House of ‘Cards’. ‘They’re out […]
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) Jaipur girl Koyal Rana was Saturday crowned Femina Miss India 2014 at the 51st edition of the beauty pageant here. The first and second runners-up were Jhataleka Malhotra from Mumbai and Gail Nicole Da Silva from Goa respectively. The trio was selected from the top five finalists of the fbb Femina Miss […]
Islamabad, April 6 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and 30 others injured when a truck plunged into a ravine in Pakistan’s northern Chakwal district Saturday, Geo News reported. Police said the incident took place in Modren Killa area when a truck carrying the victim fell into the ravine. The injured people have been shifted […]
New York, April 6 (IANS) The Indian consulate in New York dismissed as “ridiculous” suggestions that there was any connection between the detention of a US police official in New Delhi and the earlier arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade here. In a statement, the consulate said the New York Police Department official was detained in […]
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) India Saturday saluted the people of Afghanistan and its security forces for the huge turnout in the presidential elections, terming it a “resounding rejection” by people “of the designs and ideology of terrorists and their supporters”. In a statement, the external affairs ministry spokesperson said that “India will continue to work […]
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One has known the plants for majorly two things; oxygen and greenery. But think if these plants could detect explosions through chemical and pollution? Amazing isn’t it? Researchers have been successful in increasing their light-capturing ability by 30 percent. By embedding tiny structures called carbon nanotubes into chloroplasts — the energy factories inside plant cells […]