London: Britain’s cheapest house – a three-bed semi in Teesside – is going under the hammer for a meagre 750 pounds. Estate agents are even willing to do a “two for the price of one” as the desperate owners are also auctioning a similar house in the road for about 1,000 pounds. Both the houses [...]
New York: Inspired by the speedy tuna capable of swimming tirelessly in the oceans, the US Department of Homeland Security will introduce a fish-like robot for underwater patrols. The ‘BIOSwimmer’ robot sports features like the real-life fish with replicated fins and a flexible tail to pull off quick manoeuvres. US Homeland Security funded the robot [...]
London: Bottles and cans are largely unaffected by radiation and items like beer and soft drinks are still drinkable if an atomic bomb went off nearby, a US government study has found. The experiment was conducted as part of Operation Teapot, a sequence of nuclear weapons assessments by the US Military in 1950s, the Daily [...]
London: A burger joint waitress in the UK has quit her job to become a Kate Middleton lookalike after customers told her she resembled the future Queen and now she charges up to 650 pounds for public appearances. Heidi Agan, a 32-year-old mother-of-two, is constantly mistaken for the Duchess, in fact even her three-year-old daughter [...]
New York: A piece of lunar meteorite is up for sale at an auction and is expected to fetch upto $3,40,000. The rock, called Dar al Gani 1058, is the largest piece of the moon ever to be auctioned, according to Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas which is handling the sale. The 1,815 grammes meteorite [...]
London: A London restaurant has introduced a 12-item banana leaf meal called – Mahatma Thali – inspired by the diet of the Father of the Nation. Kolhapur-born artist Manali Jagtap Nyheim and award-winning Ganapati South Indian Kitchen’s owner Claire Fisher have joined hands to launch the Thali that contains dishes that use fresh ingredients that [...]
London: In an extraordinary event, a police officer was rescued by a shark, which guided him to a rescue boat after he had drifted helplessly in the Pacific Ocean for 15 weeks. Toakai Teitoi’s brother-in-law died from dehydration and the 41-year-old policeman thought it was only a matter of time before he, too, would succumb. [...]
Barcelona: A 30-year-old man in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia has been charged with faking his own kidnapping to collect ransom from his family, police said Sunday. Police received a report Sep 7 from someone close to the man, who lives in Lleida province, that he had been abducted. The person filing the police report [...]
Melbourne: Taliban insurgents are posing as “attractive women” on Facebook to befriend coalition soldiers for gathering sensitive intelligence about operations in Afghanistan, an Australian government report has warned. The dangers of social media have been pointed out in a federal government review of social media and defence, which was finalised in March but has not [...]
Moscow: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her Japanese colleague Akihiko Hoshide were finally able to install a power unit on the International Space Station Wednesday during their second spacewalk. They used tools made out of a toothbrush. The astronauts fulfilled their main task to complete the installation of a new Main Bus Switching Unit (MBSU) [...]
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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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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