October 15, 2014
DALLAS, TEXAS — A second Dallas hospital worker who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, pointing to lapses beyond how one individual may have donned and removed personal protective garb.
October 15, 2014
Almost 20 days after it successfully entered the orbit of the Red Planet, ISRO’s Mars Orbiter on Tuesday sent pictures of Phobos — the largest of the two natural satellites that orbit around Mars.
October 14, 2014
NEW YORK — Gas prices have fallen below $3 a gallon at 43,000 U.S. gas stations, according to GasBuddy.com, or one-third of the stations it tracks.
And prices at the pump, already the lowest in four years, should continue to fall, said Tom Kloza, GasBuddy’s chief oil analyst. On Tuesday, he cut his forecast for the national average price this fall to between $2.95 and $3.10, from his previous call of $3.10 to $3.25.
October 14, 2014
New Delhi: The defence research and development organisation (DRDO) plans to make the country “missile import free” by 2022, the defence research agency has told the Prime Minister’s Office.
October 14, 2014
If the response to the Ebola crisis isn’t stepped up within 60 days, a lot more people will die, he says
Bruce Aylward, World Health Organization assistant Director General in charge of the operational response on Ebola gestures during a news briefing at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday.
October 14, 2014
TIRUPATI, ANDHRA PRADESH: ‘Brahma Kamalam’ made a surprising appearance in the Bonsai garden of Lakshmi Bharathi, a resident of Varadaraja Nagar in Tirupati on Saturday night.
‘Brahma Kamalam’ at a home in Varadaraja Nagar in Tirupati. —Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
October 14, 2014
CHENNAI: The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a special leave petition filed by three-time former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa challenging the Karnataka High Court order refusing to suspend the execution of her sentence and grant of bail in a disproportionate assets case.
October 13, 2014
Gathering signs of a slowdown across many parts of the world are roiling financial markets and confounding policy makers, who after years of battling anemic economic growth have limited tools left to jump-start a recovery.
October 13, 2014
Thane: While winding up the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign for the state elections in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Thane accused the Congress and the NCP of looting Maharashtra and destroying its economy.
October 12, 2014
There are three things most Bengalis feel passionately about - Tagore, Communism and Football. Every sports lover in India knows that there are football fans. And there are Bengali football fans. The bragging right of being the most passionate football fans is something the Bengalis have earned. After all the first Indian to ever kick a football was a Bengali.
