Yearly Archives: 2015

January 16, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — That record-breaking stretch of ever lower gas prices could finally be nearing its end.

Prices are displayed at a gas station in Livonia, Michigan, January 6, 2015.

January 16, 2015

India on Thursday has expressed its disapproval over the European Parliament adopting a resolution calling for the repatriation of two Italian marines currently the subject of a legal case in the Supreme Court over the killing of two fishermen in February 2012.

January 16, 2015

New DELHI: Ahead of the Republic Day parade during which US President Barack Obama will be the chief guest, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi has warned of possible terror attacks in the national Capital by means of paragliders or drones.

Delhi Cop: BS Bassi

January 15, 2015

NEW DELHI: Former IPS officer and anti-corruption activist Kiran Bedi on Thursday joined the BJP at a function held at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi.

January 15, 2015

Elon Musk is worried that AI will destroy humanity, and so he's decided to donate $10 million toward research into how we can keep artificial intelligence safe. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has previously expressed concern that something like what happens in The Terminator could happen in real life.

He's also said that AI is "potentially more dangerous than nukes." The purpose of this donation is to both prevent that from happening and to ensure that AI is used for good and to benefit humanity.

January 14, 2015

New Delhi: Accusing Pakistan of continuing to support "proxy war" in Jammu and Kashmir despite suffering casualties due to terror on its soil, Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh on Tuesday said threats and challenges have been growing because of the "active borders".

January 14, 2015

North Korea on Tuesday offered to hold direct talks with the United States on its proposal to suspend nuclear tests, and suggested dialogue could pave the way to changes on the Korean peninsula.

January 13, 2015

Divers in the Java Sea have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501, say officials.

Diver in search and rescue operation (4 Jan 2015)

The retrieval comes a day after the first piece of the so-called black box, the flight data recorder, was also found and brought to shore.

January 13, 2014

New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and charged that the NDA government has "dictatorial" tendencies even as her party's leaders met in New Delhi to draw up a strategy for painting the ruling alliance as being "anti farmer".

January 13, 2015

Media coverage of the Paris shootings is typical of previous incidents involving Islam and free speech in the West. Much of it has veered between the misleading, sensationalist and absurd - such as a "terrorism expert" on Fox News branding Birmingham a "Muslim-only city". Journalists have jumped on the "Je Suis Charlie" bandwagon.