Rare Cosmic Alignment Set To Take Place Next Week
April 6, 2014
Mars will be exactly opposite the sun in the sky in a rare cosmic alignment set to take place Tuesday (April 8).
Sri Lanka thrash India by six wickets to lift World T20...
April 6, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 134 for 4 (Sangakkara 52*, Jayawardene 24) beat India 130 for 4 (Kohli 77) by 6 wickets
The Sri Lankan players celebrate with the World T20 trophy, India v Sri Lanka, final, World T20, Mirpur, April 6, 2014
Missing jet: MH370 skirted Indonesia apparently to ‘avoid radar’, report says
April 6, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew around Indonesian airspace apparently to avoid detection after vanishing from radar screens on March 8, a media report said on Sunday, suggesting the possibility of a more sinister reason behind the jet's disappearance.
New heart valve does not require open surgery
April 6, 2014
WASHINGTON: Doctors in the US have implanted a newly approved aortic heart valve device in a patient that does not require open surgery.
Doctors in the US have implanted a newly approved aortic heart valve device without open surgery.
US cautions citizens against travel via Baghdad airport due to ‘specific...
April 6, 2014
BAGHDAD, IRAQ: The US embassy in Iraq has cautioned its citizens against travelling via Baghdad airport through April 8 due to information regarding a "specific threat" to security, ahead of elections later this month.
Baghdad, Iraq International Airport
BJP prime ministerial candidate Modi accuses Sonia, Mulayam of misleading Muslims
April 6, 2014
Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked Sonia Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav accusing them of indulging in vote bank politics and “misleading” Muslims in the name of secularism.
Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Subsurface sea found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
April 6, 2014
NASA has said the discovery furthers "scientific interest in the moon as a potential home to extraterrestrial microbes".
Karunanidhi says this may be his last poll, calls Modi irrelevant
April 6, 2014
COIMBATORE: In his first election rally of the season outside Chennai, former chief Minister and DMK supremo M Karunanidhi decided to touch an emotional chord with the voters here as he proclaimed that the 2014 Lok Sabha election could be his final poll outing.
Man City beats Southampton 4-1 in Premier League
April 5, 2014
Manchester City kept the destiny of the Premier League title in its hands by beating Southampton 4-1 on Saturday, with the visitors’ defeat further marred by a serious-looking injury to England striker Jay Rodriguez.
Asia’s largest Tulip garden thrown open for public
April 5, 2014
Asia’s largest Tulip garden on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar was thrown open to visitors on Saturday, even as the inclement weather conditions have delayed blooming of majority of the bulbs.
A view of fully bloomed Tulips at the Asia's largest Tulip Garden on the Foothhills of the Zabarwan hills in Srinagar. Photo: Nissar Ahmad
