British-era steam engine back on Shimla track
byShimla: The Shimla hills once again echoed with the rhythmic ‘chuff-chuff-choo-choo’ of the British-era steam engine Friday as it chugged down the Kalka-Shimla heritage track…
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India to launch seven satellites Feb 25
byChennai: 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
byShanghai: 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
byWashington: 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’
byNew 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
byLondon: 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
byShimla: 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
byNew 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
byNew 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
byChandigarh: 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…