Sydney Oct 2 (IANS/EFE) A 23-year-old surfer lost one of his arms and his other hand in a shark attack Thursday at a beach near Esperance in Western Australia, official sources reported. The youth was attacked in the waters off the Wylie Bay beach and was immediately rushed to hospital in the city of Esperance, from […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) It was a sunny, warm Thursday in the national capital with the maximum temperature settling three notches above average at 36.7 degree Celsius. The Met office has forecast a partly cloudy Dussehra Friday. “The sky would be partly cloudy Friday,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The maximum and […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s campaign in Asian Games boxing ended Thursday with Vikas Krishan and Satish Kumar settling for the bronze medals after losing their respective semi-final bouts to Kazakhstan pugilists at the Seonhak Gymnasium here. In the men’s 75 kg category last-four match, Vikas went down to Zhanibek Alimkhanuly while Satish, plying his trade […]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off his Maharashtra assembly election campaign with a weekender rally in Mumbai, party sources said Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party rally will be addressed by Modi Saturday evening 7 p.m. at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in south Mumbai. Top state and central BJP leaders are expected […]
Los Angeles, Oct 2 (IANS) Singer Selena Gomez was recently caught walking through Los Angeles International Airport with her zipper undone. Gomez seemed completely oblivious to the fact, flashing a smile as she made her way through the shutterbugs, reports eonline.com. Gomez, who was returning from Paris, had attended the Louis Vuitton show at the Paris […]
Paris, Oct 2 (IANS) A helicopter crash in Doubs, eastern France, killed five people Thursday, media reported. The EC130 helicopter, with seven Swiss passengers on board, fell minutes after taking off from Lausanne en route to Montbeliard, Xinhua reported citing BFMTV news channel. Five people were killed and two others were wounded, one of them seriously, […]
Bangkok, Oct 2 (IANS/EFE) Thai scientists Thursday announced the discovery of a new antibody against the Ebola virus and claimed that it is “more effective” than those that now exist. However, the new cure is still awaiting animal and human trials. “We are proud to have created a new antibody treatment for Ebola fever,” Udom Kachintorn, […]
Hong Kong, Oct 2 (IANS) Pro-democracy protests continued in Hong Kong for the fifth day Thursday with students threatening to take over government buildings unless the territory’s chief executive, Leung Chung-ying, resigns by the end of the day. The “Umbrella Revolution”, as the protest has come to be called, continued to attract thousands of demonstrators in […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Forget the ice bucket challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday started a similar chain, nominating actors Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Anil Ambani among nine people to spread the message of Clean India. Modi, launching the Clean India Campaign Thursday, nominated nine eminent personalities to take […]
Bangalore, Oct 1 (IANS) Indian-born Stanford University professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and Indian techie Himanshu Asnani, pursuing research in mathematics at Stanford, will be honoured in Washington DC Thursday by the US-based Marconi Society. Paulraj, 69, is the winner of the Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive […]