In spite of verbal fight between Shiv Sena activists and Sharukh khan ending up, Hindi film-industry film-maker Karan Johar takes no single chance ahead of the release of his film “My Name is Khan” and has met Mumbai Police Commissioner D. Sivanandan to assure full protection and police security and that the film to be [...]
Making it’s stand firm, Iran on Tuesday announced its beginning of additional uranium enriching. Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s atomic chief told: “From today we have started the 20 percent enrichment… in Natanz.” Reported the official IRNA news agency. World powers had earlier threatened to pass new sanctions again suspecting that the Islamic republic’s nuclear project [...]
The Pentagon’s advanced research division has allocated $6 million to create immortal synthetic organisms, which can die on command and keep a genetic record of what they have been doing, a report says. Based on the 2011 budget of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project, known as ‘BioDesign,’ aims to create artificial [...]
Agricultural Minister and ICC president-elect Sharad Pawar along with BCCI president Shashank Manohar met Bal Thackery on Sunday to discuss the issue of Shive Sena’s threat against Aussie players in IPL. The meeting held at Thackeray’s residence was also attended by Sena’s executive president Uddhav Thackeray and party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut. To protest [...]
DHARAMSALA, India: Even though heavy pressure is being put on Dalai Lama to refrain from meeting the US president Obama, his envoys in Beijing have refused to give in to the pressure and are keen on the upcoming meeting. The differences between the Tibetan government (which is in exile) and Chinese government have not narrowed [...]
New York: More than 50 people have been feared dead in the massive explosion that ripped across the power plant in Connecticut on Sunday. The rescue mission is own even though there is no hope of survivors anymore, officials said. Many houses and shops shook due to the powerful blast in Middle town which is [...]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said on Friday that India is “becoming a hub” for large-scale child prostitution rackets, and ordered the setting up of a special investigating agency to tackle the menace. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Patnaik asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam to examine the idea of setting up [...]
The debt European scholars owe their Muslim counterparts – everything from water pumps and theories of blood circulation to engineering and map-making – was unveiled in a London exhibition titled 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World’ on January 21. At the London’s Science Museum. The exhibition will be open till April 25. [...]
An opposition talks (when it is not dumb). government acts (when it is not indolent). A government is measured by what it does. The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra says that Mumbai belongs to every Indian, but decides that its 24,000 taxi licenses belong only to a language-specific group. There is the usual [...]
The National Council for the Child welcomed the arrest of Avinoam Braverman and called on government ministries to take steps to prevent pedophiles from trapping children on the Web. “We have been saying for a long time that Israel is a pedophile’s paradise and everyone said we were exaggerating,” council head Yitzhak Kadman said. “But [...]
