Yearly Archives: 2015

August 10, 2015

Strong tremors jolted Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi on Monday afternoon around 330pm as an earthquake of 6.2 magnitude rocked Afghanistan.

Tremors were also felt in the neighbouring Pakistan.

The epicenter of the quake was 88 kilometers (54.68 miles) from Feyzabad in Afghanistan, at a depth of 209 kilometers (129.87 miles), the US Geological Survey said.

Panic-stricken people ran out of their homes and offices in Srinagar and Chandigarh but no loss to life or property has been so reported so far.

August 8, 2015

Samsung’s staring down the barrel of oblivion as it searches for answers to its ever-slipping grip on the mobile market. There’s one week to go before Samsung pins its hopes on the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+: but will it be enough?

Samsung Galaxy S6 & S6 Edge side-by-sde. Image credit: Jay McGregor

August 8, 2015

NEW DELHI – The mystery over the parentage of a hearing-and-speech impaired Indian woman stranded in Pakistan grew more intriguing on Saturday after foreign minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that a Bihar family said Geeta was their daughter, bringing the number of such claims up to four.

August 8, 2015

New Delhi: Mysore has topped the Swachh Bharat rankings among 476 cities in the country with three more places from Karnataka figuring in the top 10.

Among urban local bodies in the national capital, Delhi Cantonment was ranked 15th in the list and New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) 16th, while Municipal Corporation of Delhi was at 398th position.

August 7, 2015

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Like a lot of you — OK, like four of you, anyway — I made time to tune into the warmup Republican debate yesterday afternoon, the one for the seven candidates who barely registered in the polls.

August 7, 2015

NEW DELHI – India will boycott a Commonwealth Parliamentary Union (CPU) meeting in Islamabad next month to protest against Pakistan's decision to not invite the speaker of Jammu and Kashmir assembly, in a move that came against the backdrop of tensions between the two neighbors over the recent terror attacks.

August 6, 2015

RESTON, VA: In no universe does a meal costing less than $30 warrant a $5,448 tip. Such a transaction is almost certainly a mistake, and that's the argument of a family that was charged $5,475 for two burgers and a wrap, plus tip. Still, months after the transaction went through, the family is still trying to get a refund, ABC7 in Washington, D.C., reports.

August 6, 2015

New Delhi: Over 4,400 students dropped out of IITs and NITs in the last three years due to various reasons including "academic stress", the government said on Thursday and assured that corrective actions have been initiated.

August 6, 2015

Challenger, Gray & Christmas has released its monthly job cuts for July, and it is ugly. The 105,696 job cuts was the highest number since 2011. To put this in perspective, the July job cuts total is a whopping 136% higher than the 44,842 job cuts reported in June, as well as 125% higher than the in same report a year ago.

August 6, 2015

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN – Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.