March 22, 2014
PERTH: Australian rescue officials broadened the search area for missing Malaysian Flight MH370 on Saturday and boosted the number of spotter planes in the Indian Ocean, with weather conditions favorable.
March 21, 2014
BANGALORE: Over 2.5 lakh Indians have registered for courses on edX, the massive open online course (Mooc) platform founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in May 2012 to host online university-level courses.
March 21, 2014
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar islands were jolted by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale this evening but chances of Tsunami are ruled out, the government said.
"An earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter scale occurred some 70 kms east of Indira Point at 7.11pm today.
March 21, 2014
Brief Scorecard: India 131 for 3 (Kohli 36*, Raina 35*) beat Pakistan 130 for 7 (Umar Akmal 33, Mishra 2-22) by 7 wickets
Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli give themselves credit for a facile win, India v Pakistan, World T20, Group 2, Mirpur, March 21, 2014
March 21, 2014
PERTH: Spotter planes spent a second fruitless day scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean for wreckage from a Malaysian jet on Friday, as Chinese relatives of the missing passengers clashed with Malaysian officials.
March 21, 2014
MIAMI: Sania Mirza and Cara Black fought their way into the second round even as Leander Paes made his third first round exit in five tournaments this year when he lost his opening round at the Sony Open with partner Radek Stepanek.
March 21, 2014
SINGAPORE: Fourteen Indians were on Thursday jailed for clashing with a group of people in Singapore's Little India, where the country's worst riot in 40 years broke out last year.
Eleven of them were sentenced to seven months in jail, and the remaining three will serve an additional week for stealing food and beer from supermarkets.
March 21, 2014
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin probably didn’t expect that newly announced Russian sanctions on nine Americans – three top White House aides, three Republicans and three Democrats in Congress – would spark a bipartisan love-in in Washington.
March 21, 2014
NEW DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha contest, with Congress announcing his son Karthi as the candidate from Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu. Kirit Patel will take on BJP patriarch LK Advani in Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
March 21, 2014
WASHINGTON: Earth's inner radiation belt displays a persistent zebra striped pattern generated by our planet's rotation, Nasa's twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft have found.
The high-energy electrons in the inner radiation belt display a persistent pattern that resembles slanted zebra stripes, researchers said.
