Celebrities like John Abraham, Sharmila Tagore, Raveena Tandon and Sunidhi Chauhan will observe Martyr’s Day with The Flag Foundation of India’ programme “Sadbhavna Sandhya – Mahatma Ke Path Par”. The programme will be held at the India Gate lawns Thursday and will see the presence of many Bollywood biggies, said a statement. Actor Annu Kapoor […]
Rahul Gandhi lied in his comments on the Gujarat riots and his entire interview to a TV news channel was “bereft of an idea which could generate hope”, the BJP said Tuesday. The Congress, however, defended the party vice president, saying that transfer of Gujarat riot cases outside the state was a vote of no-confidence […]
Robotic floats armed with sensors will be launched in the Indian Ocean as part of a new India-Australia research partnership to study the Indian Ocean, authorities said Wednesday. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) made the announcement, reported Xinhua. The Indian Ocean contains vast fisheries and mineral resources that are of strategic importance […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Tuesday said that he has expressed concern to the Syrian government of its “now behind schedule” elimination of chemical weapon and said it was “imperative” Damascus “intensify its efforts.” Ban, in a letter sent to the UN Security Council Tuesday , said that he was aware of the “volatile security […]
Declaring that “for the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed”, President Barack Obama has reiterated that he would veto any new sanctions bill from the US Congress. International negotiations on preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon will be difficult and “they may not succeed”, he acknowledged in […]
Led by an Indian-American student Apoorva Kiran, scientists at Cornell University here have 3-D printed a working loudspeaker – seamlessly integrating the plastic, conductive and magnetic parts – and ready for use almost as soon as it comes out of the printer. The thrilling discovery means that rather than assembling consumer products from parts and […]
Police in Puducherry recovered a pipe bomb Wednesday near central minister V. Narayanasamy’s residence, following which security was beefed up, an officer said. “The minister’s driver saw some suspicious object near the house around 8.00 or 8.30 a.m. Police were informed and the object was secured. It was a bomb and was diffused,” Puducherry Director […]
The centre informed the Delhi High Court Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not responded to a notice on its source of its funds. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath asked the petitioner, advocate M.L. Sharma, to include AAP as a respondent in the case and posted the […]
Two people were Wednesday detained and one kg of gold worth Rs.30 lakh seized from them at the airport here, an official said. Another person was arrested at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport for carrying 50,000 euros, the official added. “We have detained two people for illegally carrying gold. Nearly 500 grams of gold […]
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said tutors from his Patanjali Trust would soon be teaching yoga in Goa’s government schools. On the sidelines of a media briefing in Panaji Tuesday, Ramdev told IANS: “Our experts from the Patanjali (Yogpeeth) Trust will be soon teaching yoga at the government schools here.” He made the announcement after meeting […]