Yearly Archives: 2015

January 5, 2015

It started 15 years ago with plans to expand the Tower of David Museum. But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem’s Old City.

January 4, 2015

Fast-growing Chinese tech firm Xiaomi Technology Ltd Co [XTC.UL] booked 74.3 billion yuan ($11.97 billion) in pre-tax sales last year, up 135 percent from 2013, the firm's chief executive Lei Jun said on his official microblog account on Sunday.

January 4, 2015

The use of Mahatma Gandhi's image on beer cans and bottle by a US company has raised hackles with a petition being filed in a Hyderabad court alleging it had insulted the father of the nation following which the liquor company has apologized.

January 4, 2015

New Delhi: Intelligence agencies have alerted the Bureau of Civil aviation security (BCAS) about a possible hijack attempt on an Air India flight. The security agencies have identified sensitive airports, including Kabul, and say that the Delhi-Kabul flight could be targeted.

The alert has been issued in the run-up to the Republic Day and US President Barack Obama's visit to India. Mr. Obama will be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations.

January 3, 2014

JAKARTA/PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia – Search teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed with 162 people on board have found four large parts of the plane on the sea bed, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency said on Saturday.

January 3, 2014

The honking of car horns in India is everywhere. It’s enough to make anyone lose their mind — and make me wear earplugs whenever I step out of my house.

Indian economist Jayraj Salgaonkar, creator of the horn usage meter called Oren.

January 2, 2015

Solar panels, electric cars, high-efficiency washing machines — these are the "green," or earth-friendly, technologies that you probably see every day. But there are also many lesser-known tech devices out there designed to reverse the negative effects of human activity on the environment.

January 2, 2015

GUANTÁNAMO, Cuba — At a military checkpoint on the road that approaches the American naval base here, one of three along the way, four Cuban soldiers in pea-green fatigues, without guns, stood on duty last Sunday laughing over a joke in the shade of an almond tree, beside a neatly cultivated flower bed. A large sign declared the site, “the first anti-imperialist trench.”

January 2, 2015

SURABAYA, INDONESIA – As search teams hunt for the black boxes of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, analysts say the pilot may have managed to make an emergency water landing, only for the plane to be overcome by high seas.

January 1, 2014

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said, "Islamabad does not seem to learn any lesson." This statement came in reference to the recent ceasefire violations by Pakistan.