The SpaceX company’s Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off with supplies for the International Space Station, in the first commercial space venture. Falcon 9, carrying a capsule named Dragon packed with 1,000 pounds of space station provisions, took flight at 3:44am from Cape Canaveral, the Associated Press reported. An earlier launch of the Falcon 9 [...]
Host in China’s state-run TV calls foreigners bitches, goes unpunished HONG KONG, China: When the buttoned-up host of a TV program that is supposed to showcase intelligent dialogue with foreigners begins calling foreigners “trash,” “spies” and “bitch,” you might think that the host’s job would be in trouble. Not so for Yang Rui, the usually [...]
Lalit K Jha Washington: A new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft — which is to be delivered to Air India — has successfully completed its first test flight in South Carolina, the plane manufacturing company has said. “The airplane will now be flown to Texas to be painted with Air India’s livery before returning to Boeing’s [...]
Mumbai: BJP leader Sanjay Joshi, bete noire of the Gujarat Chief Minister, today resigned ahead of the party National Executive meeting beginning here, a move seen as an effort by the party president to buy peace with Narendra Modi. “Joshi, who was invitee member of the National Executive, has in a letter to party president [...]
Japjeet Duggal Chandigarh: We’ve seen them on monuments, trees and toilet walls. But the art of doodling has taken on a new meaning in Panjab University with messages and graffiti scrawled on desks and sometimes read years later — some witty, some banal and others profound. ‘Overnight success normally takes 15 years’, said one message [...]
US leaders are hoping for another ‘old guard’ ruler, here are three likely outcomes The New Pharoahs Charles M Sennott It is unwise to try to predict anything in Egypt these days, but there are several safe assumptions that can be made as Egyptians went to the polls Wednesday and Thursday to elect a civilian [...]
Diff’rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their [...]
Today’s TV shows for kids do not match up to the ones we saw in the 90s. We look at some shows that could come back for a re-run and still be a whopping hit with the kids Siddharth TSS feedback@postnoon.com The 1990s was the era when television was filled with entertaining and enthralling shows [...]
Washington: Many premature babies face typically unpleasant medical procedures, long hospital stays and increased chances of chronic health issues throughout their lives. To help address one of their biggest problems, learning how to suckle and feed, the Florida State University has announced the availability of a Pacifier Activated Lullaby (PAL) device to hospitals around the [...]
Medical experts who came together for a conference in the Capital say that there are no conclusive studies to prove that radiation from cellular towers causes cancer New Delhi: There are no conclusive scientific studies anywhere to prove low radiation emitted from cellular towers can cause cancer in human beings, and authorities must gear up [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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