August 12, 2015
Islamabad: Pakistani security forces said Wednesday they had foiled a plot to bomb Independence Day celebrations in Karachi after arresting a Taliban gang in the city.
Militants had been planning to detonate a van loaded with explosives in the country's largest city during Friday's celebrations marking independence from Britain in 1947, a statement from the military said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
