NASA’s next Mars mission known as InSight, which is scheduled for a 2018 lift-off, will focus on examining the deep interior of Mars, the US space agency has announced. The long form of InSight’s name is Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, reports Xinhua news agency. The mission is expected to launch […]
More than 180 million people in countries affected by conflict and instability do not have access to safe water, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) announced on Tuesday. “In countries beset by violence, displacement, conflict and instability, children’s most basic means of survival – water – must be a priority,” said Sanjay Wijesekera, Unicef’s global chief […]
At least five coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derailed in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Tuesday, officials said. According to the Central Railway, there were no reports of any casualties or injuries so far in the incident which occurred at around 6.30 a.m., between the Asangaon and Vashind stations. Top Central Railway officials are rushing […]
The counting of votes for the Bawana assembly by-poll here began at 8 a.m. on Monday. The by-poll was necessitated after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Ved Prakash quit the party and resigned from the assembly seat to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (Lead). Voting was conducted on August 23 at 379 polling booths. The […]
Indian megastar Akshay Kumar has been named the 10th highest earning actor of 2017 in Forbes’ list of theWorld’s Highest Paid Actors of 2017. Earning $35.5 million, Akshay Kumar is one of 3 Indian actors on the list filled with Hollywood action stars and superheroes. After delivering consecutive blockbusters and now with the successful global release of Toilet: Ek Prem […]
Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium’s new Lotus Pavilion will be blessed at a special consecration ceremony on Saturday, August 26 ahead of its official opening next month. The ceremony for the pavilion, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and provides a unique pre-cremation site for Australia’s increasing […]
Pakistan on Thursday strongly rejected US President Donald Trump’s accusation that Pakistan has been undermining the US’s so-called ‘war against terror’ despite receiving billions of dollars in aid. A high-level meeting of military and political leaders under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was held on Thursday to come up with a response […]
India’s Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth reached the quarter-finals, while B. Sai Praneeth, Ajay Jayaram and the mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy lost in the pre-quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships here on Thursday. Sindhu, a double World Championships bronze medallist, earned a hard-fought win over Hong […]
Software major Infosys has gone through a churn over the months, as its boardroom battles over a spate of issues led to the exit of its first non-founder executive Vishal Sikka on August 18 and the return of its co-founder Nandan Niliekani as non-Executive Chairman on Thursday. Among the issues red flagged by the promoters, […]
Iraqi security forces battling Islamic State (IS) terrorists on Thursday extended their grip in the city of Tal Afar as they seized four neighbourhoods from the group, the Iraqi military said. The army’s 9th Armored Division and the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units freed al-Nour al-Thani neighbourhood in eastern the city after heavy clashes with IS […]