December 15, 2013
BEIJING: China's six-wheeled moon rover rolled over the moon surface leaving telltale marks on the lunar soil on Sunday. The operation began hours after the country's space probe vehicle, Chang'e 3, carried out a soft landing on a flat, earth facing side of the moon.
December 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: US intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden extracted from classified government computers before leaving the United States, according to senior government officials.
December 15, 2013
NEW DELHI: BJP has decided to oppose any move to nullify Supreme Court's order re-criminalizing consensual sex among consenting adults, dealing a huge setback to any move to scrap or dilute Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
December 14, 2013
MELBOURNE: Scientists have developed a new technique to diagnose autism in babies as young as 12 months.
December 14, 2013
RALEGAN SIDDHI: Anna Hazare, fasting for the last five days for passage of Lokpal Bill, on Saturday said that he was happy with the amended legislation presented in the Rajya Sabha and would call off his hunger strike the moment the law is enacted.
December 14, 2013
NEW DELHI: BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, should not be barred from the job because of deadly anti-Muslim riots under his watch, one of India's most respected business tycoons says.
December 14, 2013
JOHANNESBURG: Preparations for Nelson Mandela's funeral have been marred by a public spat between the South African government and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most prominent survivors in the long anti-apartheid struggle.
December 14, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO: Google has removed an experimental privacy feature from its Android mobile software that had allowed users to block apps from collecting personal information such as address book data and a user's location.
December 13, 2013
CENTENNIAL (Colorado): A student shot at least one other student at a Colorado high school Friday before he apparently turned the gun on himself, authorities said.
The student was wounded when he confronted the gunman at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, a Denver suburb, said Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
December 13, 2013
RALEGAN SIDDHI: Simmering differences between Team Anna and Aam Aadmi Party burst out into the open on Friday when Anna Hazare ordered a frontline AAP leader out of his fast venue and village after he had a public spat with former Army chief General V K Singh.
