Soyuz brings three station fliers home after four months in space
After spending four months in orbit in ISS Indian-American Sunita Williams along with two fellow astronauts safely returned to Earth. Russia's Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan were two other austronauts who landed on...
Written on 20 November 2012, 16.41 by Tushar Gajjar
India 521 for 8 dec (Pujara 206*, Sehwag 117, Swann 5-144) and 80 for 1 (Pujara 41*) beat England 191 (Ojha 5-45) and 406 (Cook 176, Prior 91, Ojha 4-120) by nine wickets India ahead 1-0 in 4 test series against England after winning the first test comprehensively at Ahmedabad. On the fifth day of the match at motera India took last 5 wickets of the England team before the lunch and needed only 77 runs to win in two sessions.
India...
Written on 12 November 2012, 08.32 by Tushar Gajjar
The upgraded and technologically most enhanced version of low cost Aakash 2 tablet was launched in New Delhi on Sunday by President Pranab Mukherjee. As we have reported earlier that it may be available for Rs. 2999 with just Rs. 98 per month connectivity.
New version of this tablet comes with enhanced speed and more user friendly features. The tablet features Android 4.0 ICS with 800 MHz processor. The tablet will have 7 inch capacitive touch screen with wi-fi and GPRS...
Match 18 of Indian Premier League, 2012 between Royal Challengers Bangalore v/s Rajasthan Royals was virtually over at the half time when Ajinkya Rahane's superb, unbeaten 103 brought up the first century of IPL 2012 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on yesterday evening.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first on a nice wicket. Rahane also smashed six consecutive fours in the 14th over of the match (bowler - S. Arvind) setting up new record in Twenty20 history.
In...
Thursday, March 29, 2012 (WikiNews) Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba on Monday to begin his three day trip in which the leader of the Catholic church met with Cuban leaders and publicly spoke on the need for religious freedom and openness. Pope Benedict XVI spoke before a large audience yesterday in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana. This is his first visit to Cuba. He called for change in Cuba and the rest of the world.
Cuba and the...
In a major Naxal attack today, at least 12 CRPF personnel were killed while 28 others injured when the ultras triggered a landmine blast in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. Blast took place around 1130 hours IST, conformed the CRPF officials.
Naxalites triggered a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Pustola, 38 kms from Gadchiroli in eastern Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. The blast blew up a mini-bus of CRPF ferrying the jawans in Pustola, near Yedampayali, between Karwafa and Phulbodi Gatta,...
Samajwadi Party swept to power by handsomely defeating Congress party and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. Mulayam Singh Yadav's party performed really well and the results of the elections are a setback to Rahul Gandhi's Congress. He acknowledged the defeat and took the responsibility as he campaigned for the party in Uttar pradesh.
It was a close call for Congress in Uttarakhand where party emerged as the winner with thin margin over BJP. Congress won 32 seats there while...
World Series Hockey (WSH)World Series Hockey is an initiative of Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) with the objective to perk up national game hockey in India. It may also help to make it a popular choice of sport amongst the youngsters in the country. First edition of the WSH was going to be played in India among eight franchisee-based teams from various cities in India between 17 December 2011 to 22 January 2012. Later it was re-scheduled to 29 February to...
Written on 29 February 2012, 12.18 by Tushar Gajjar
Bollywood star and former Miss India Universe 2001, Celina Jaitley, who is married to Dubai based hotelier Peter Haag, is expecting twin babies sometime in March. She recently announced her pregnancy on Twitter.
Celina born 24 November 1981 in Kabul, Afghanistan to a Punjabi Hindu Army Colonel V.K. Jaitley and Meeta, an Afghan Hindu, who was a nurse in the Indian Army. She has a brother who is also in the Army.
Celina will not take part in any promotional activity of...
Written on 17 November 2011, 11.41 by Tushar Gajjar
New Delhi, Nov 17 -2011 Team Anna publically announced today that the Lokpal Bill, that is going to be discussed in the winter session of the parliament, must include Citizen's Charter that specifies a certain time limit, very well defined in the bill, on government departments for providing services.
Senior Team Anna member and social activist Arvind Kejriwal told media in Delhi that the Citizen's Charter is a must in Lokpal Bill. It will help people get their work done...
Boris Gelfand of Israel won the sixth game of FIDE Candidates Matches final in Kazan against Alexander Grischuk of Russia and won the right to become the challenger for the World Chess ChampionViswanathan Anand of India. In an extremely good performance with white pieces in the last round of the finals match Gelfand performed very well in the middle game and forced Grischuk to stop his clock after 35 moves and four hours play.
In a press conference...
JAPAN EARTHQUAKE 2011The 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami written in Japanese as 東北地方太平洋沖地震, which is pronounced as Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin, and literally means Tōhoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake was a 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (Japan Standard Time that is 05:46 UTC) on 11th March 2011, Friday. The epicenter of this mega earthquake was 130 kilometers (approx 81 miles) off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, Tōhoku,...
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Secrecy was needed on Kasab's hanging
"The President rejected the mercy petition on November 5. I signed it on November 7 and on November 8, the Maharashtra government had been communicated to take action. It was decided that he would be executed on November 21 at 7.30 AM. and accordingly the whole process has been completed today," Shinde said, adding secrecy about the hanging was a key.
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