India to launch seven satellites Feb 25
Chennai: The Indian space agency will Feb 25 put into orbit seven foreign satellites including an Indo-French collaborative satellite SARAL and thus earn much wanted…
Careless Chinese parents got wrong baby basket
Shanghai: Two parents busy making phone calls mistakenly took wrong baby baskets with infants inside at a Shanghai airport, a media report said Friday. Luckily,…
Gut bugs help build healthy bones
Washington: A natural probiotic supplement can help treat people with osteoporosis and produce healthy bones, according to a new study. Probiotics are bugs that can…
Big B in Bhopal to shoot ‘Satyagraha’
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is set to spend the next three months in his ‘sasural’ (in-laws’ town) Bhopal as he begins shooting for Prakash…
19 percent of world’s reptiles close to extinction
London: Nineteen percent of the world’s reptiles are close to extinction, according to a new study. The study involving more than 200 experts from the…
No working CM needed, Raja Saab hard at work
Shimla: After rumours swirled that the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh would appoint a “working” chief minister as 78-year-old incumbent Virabhadra Singh would go abroad…
Top Latin American IT firm enters India
New York: Softtek, Latin America’s leading global IT services provider, has acquired Systech Integrators, a SAP channel and services partner global IT solutions provider co-founded…
Fashion designer Anand Jon pleads guilty to sex charge
New York: India-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, locked up in California for raping and sexually assaulting models, has pleaded guilty to one count…
When mock drill itself became a disaster
Chandigarh: It took several months of preparation, meetings and nearly Rs.1.2 crore. But when the big day arrived, the mock disaster drill here itself turned…
Pakistan fires at Indian posts on LoC
Jammu: Pakistani troops fired at Indian posts on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district late Thursday, an army spokesperson said…