Former Indian Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi had personally requested that his resignation be accepted and “I consented”, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday. Admiral Joshi resigned Wednesday in the wake of a fire aboard a submarine that injured seven personnel and left two missing, taking moral responsibility for a series of accidents that have […]
Wouldn’t you shudder at the thought that almost 2,000 women were raped daily over a period of nine months during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide? Director Mrityunjay Devvrat says the purpose of rape scenes in his controversial movie “The Children of War” is not for generating business, but for showing “how men can become animals for […]
Charosa Wineries has announced its debut here with a host of wines and an eye on the Goa market, which accounts nearly 20 percent of Indian wine trade. According to the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Parag Kamat, the brand plans to first consolidate in southwestern Indian states like Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Karnataka before […]
Debunking earlier theories that big stars form within very massive, isolated ‘cores’ weighing at least 100 times the mass of the sun, research offers insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Astrophysicists studied Snake nebula which is located about 11,700 light years from earth from Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope. It was […]
Head Coach Ottis Gibson has described the limited overs series against England starting this weekend as important to the West Indies preparations for the defence of the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in March-April. The West Indies cricketers arrived in Antigua Monday and have had full training sessions at the match venue, the Sir […]
Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain, a three-time winner in the Brazilian Open clay court event here, has been upset by Federico Delbonis of Argentina 6-3, 3-6, 2-6. Almagro took the first set easily, but thereafter found the going tough as the Argentinean started stretching him on every point and lost the next two sets. Top-seeded […]
Work on Brazil’s troubled Arena da Baixada World Cup stadium has been further delayed by a public transport strike, media reports said. More than two thirds of the venue’s 1,300 employees were absent from work Wednesday, Xinhua quoted a local daily O Globo. World football’s governing body FIFA last week warned that local organisers faced […]
Two sailors are still missing on the accident-hit INS Sindhuratna submarine, official sources said Thursday. An official said the condition of the submarine has been described as safe. “We shall attempt to open the sealed compartments where the two missing sailors are believed to be trapped and hope to rescue them,” the official, requesting anonymity, […]
New Zealand had a record number of overseas visitors last month, thanks to the Chinese New Year holiday, the government statistics agency announced Thursday. The number of visitors last month was up 12 percent year-on-year to 292,400, the highest ever for a January month, according to Statistics New Zealand. “New Zealand saw more visitors arrive […]
It was a pleasant Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded a notch above season’s average at 13.0 degrees Celsius. The Met Office forecast rain in the afternoon. “Partly cloudy sky with spells of rain in some parts of the city could be recorded,” an India Meteorological Department official said. The […]