Young talents put their best foot forward for a great cause:...
August 12, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
Sterling, VA – On August 2, it was a music program with a difference: enthralling performances interspersed with informative segments on a disease afflicting millions – Alzheimer’s.
Government seeking Rs 640 crore in damages from Nestle
August 11, 2015
NEW DELHI – Acting tough against Nestle India, the government filed a class action suit against the Swiss manufacturer of Maggi noodles on Tuesday, seeking Rs 640 crore in damages for alleged unfair trade practices, false labelling and misleading advertisements.
New York’s tech scene: More melting pot, less Silicon Valley
August 11, 2015
NEW YORK – You could've heard a pin drop.
Well, it looks an awful lot like there’s a woman on...
August 11, 2015
There’s a mysterious, fey lady standing on Mars you guys! Well no, of course there isn’t, but it looks uncannily like it in this photo from Nasa’s Curiosity Rover.
The image is totally legit, and one of thousands of Mars photos Nasa collates online.
India-born Sundar Pichai is the new Google CEO
August 11, 2015
Google announced on Monday the launch of Alphabet Inc as its parent company with co-founders Larry Page as its CEO and Sergey Brin as president.
India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google, which will be the new entity’s largest fully owned subsidiary, a thinly trimmed version of what it is now.
It’s Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly
August 11, 2015
The most comprehensive assessment of the energy output in the nearby universe reveals that today's produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago. A team of international scientists used several of the world's most powerful telescopes to study the energy of the universe and concluded that the universe is slowly dying.
6.2-magnitude quake hits Afghanistan, tremors felt in north India
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.
Samsung’s Got a Big Problem On Its Hands
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
Indian woman in Pakistan: 4 families claim ‘Geeta is ours’
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.
Mysore tops Swachh Bharat rankings, South India the cleanest, North India...
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.
