December 16, 2015
Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far — a super-Earth located just 14 light years away. The planet, reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, is one of three detected orbiting a small red dwarf star called Wolf 1061 in the constellation Ophiuchus.
December 16, 2015
NEW DELHI – The India chapter of global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) had warned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal about serious allegations of corruption against his principal secretary and IAS officer Rajendra Kumar by way of a letter sent through registered post in May this year.
December 15, 2015
SYDNEY: A cartoon in Australia’s biggest-selling national newspaper The Australian created controversy on Monday with its depiction of starving, turbaned Indians attempting to eat solar panels with mango chutney, only to give up in exasperation.
December 14, 2015
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 431 (Guptill 156, Williamson 88, McCullum 75, Pradeep 4-112) and 267 for 3 dec (Latham 109*, Williamson 71) beat Sri Lanka 294 (Karunaratne 84, Chandimal 83) and 282 (Chandimal 58) by 122 runs
December 14, 2015
India’s envoy to Pakistan said on Monday the country only prepared to discuss the part of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad in upcoming peace talks, presenting a potential stumbling block days after the dialogue was announced.
December 14, 2015
Regulation of drones in the hands of civilian pilots took a big step forward today. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that all units weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must be registered by February 19th, 2016.
December 13, 2015
WASHINGTON D.C. – The rhetoric of Republican presidential candidates blasting President Obama’s approach to combating Islamic State terrorism suggests a huge policy divide.
President Barack Obama speaks in Washington Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in Washington.
December 13, 2015
New Delhi: Delhi's ruling AAP on Sunday accused the Centre of "selective targeting" in carrying out anti-encroachment activities, and said "god will not forgive" those who have rendered "hundreds of people homeless" in biting cold.
December 13, 2015
Washington: Islamic State in all likelihood has access to blank Syrian passports and printing machines and the terror group's followers may have entered the US using the authentic-looking passports, according to a media report.
December 13, 2015
Windspeed Technologies, which bills itself as a “premier aerospace engineering services company”, has released details of a system called SkyDeck that allows passengers to observe the view in-flight from on top of the plane.
