The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which intends to contest all the 80 seats from Uttar Pradesh – and 350 overall – in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, has set up an election war room here, a party official said. The state secretariat, as it is called, will double up as AAP’s office and the strategy […]
The secret behind humans having four limbs is hidden in their belly! If we believe researchers at University of Vienna and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, the paired appendages in backboned animals (with jaws) have modified dramatically in the course of evolution – into fins, legs, arms, flippers and wings – […]
A police officer was killed and five constables were injured when militants ambushed a patrolling party in Assam’s Sonitpur district Tuesday, police said. Police said militants belonging to the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) anti-talk faction attacked the police team in Batasipur area. Additional Superintendent of Police of Sonitpur district Guljar Hussain was killed […]
Here comes an app to keep track of your daily smartphone digital diet! Install and see how much time you are spending on the phone or which apps or games you are hooked to. Scientists at University of Bonn, Germany, have developed Menthal that runs on Android 4.0 – or newer – version. “If you […]
A historical debate over when did humans really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs has now been put to rest. A team of Israeli scientists have discovered a large hearth in the Qesem Cave – an archaeological site near Rosh HaAyin, a city in Israel – that humans built nearly […]
The BJP Tuesday took Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi head on, saying he was ill-informed about the 1984 anti-sikh riots. Rahul Gandhi, in a TV interview Monday night, said the difference between the 1984 riots and the 2002 riots in Gujarat was that in the former, the government was trying to stop the violence while […]
New Zealand won the fourth One-day International against India by seven wickets here Tuesday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. Ross Taylor (112 not out) and captain Brendon McCullum (49 not out) took New Zealand easily past India’s 278 for five. The third ODI had ended in a tie after New […]
A Chinese police officer was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for causing intentional injury to a seven-month-old baby. According to the Henan Provincial Higher People’s Court, Guo Zengxi of the public security bureau was convicted of the crime of causing intentional injury to the baby, Xinhua reported. On July 18, 2013, Guo took […]
The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti on pleas seeking cancellation of their election for exceeding the expenditure limit in last December’s assembly polls. The court sought their response by Feb 25 on petitions by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Vijender Gupta and Arti Mehra […]
A major fire broke out in a British-era half-timbered building in this Himachal Pradesh capital early Tuesday, officials said. There was no loss of life. The fire was reported from the top two floors of the four-storeyed 109-year-old Gorton Castle, housing the state’s Audit and Accountant General, a fire department official told IANS. Deputy Commissioner […]