India plans string of satellite launches
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), July 2 (IANS) The Indian space agency has lined up a string of launches, including the silver jubilee flight of the…
Virtual reality may encourage women to lose weight
Washington, July 2 (IANS) Watching an “avatar”, or a computer-generated image, that performs weight-loss actions in a virtual community might help women shed weight…
New York embraces bikes for the summer
New York, July 2 (IANS/EFE) New York City’s famous yellow cabs will have to share the streets with the blue rental bicycles that have…
Five in six months: Tamil films that impressed
Chennai, July 2 (IANS) The going has not been great so far for the Tamil film industry, especially with big-budget, star-studded films falling like…
Cash, jewels worth Rs.200 crore seized in Mumbai
Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) A courier consignment of cash, gold and diamond jewellery, worth an estimated Rs.200 crore (about $33 million) was seized here…
World’s first Firefox smartphone launched
Madrid, July 2 (IANS/EFE) Spain’s Telefonica is offering the world’s first smartphone with the Firefox operating system to compete with devices running Google Android…
Jackfruit: Poor’s man fruit goes to waste in Meghalaya
Shillong, July 2 (IANS) It could have brought villagers in Meghalaya huge profits. Instead, vast quantities of jackfruit are going waste in the impoverished…
Film on 1994 terror attack in Argentina debuts in Venezuela
Caracas, July 2 (IANS/EFE) “Esclavo de Dios” (Slave of God), a film inspired by the 1994 bombing of a Jewish organization in Argentina, premiered…
Hot Tuesday in Delhi, cloudy day ahead
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) It was a hot morning in the capital Tuesday with the minimum temperature settling at 29 degrees Celsius, a…
From jaws of death, man, son return to tell the horror tale
Dehradun: The man and his 25-year-old son have seen death and destruction from close range. Even when people were dying all around them and structures…