May 9, 2016
This enhanced map of Mercury's northern pole exaggerates the colors to reveal insights about the different types of rocks on the planet's surface. The 181-mile-wide (291 kilometers) Mendelssohn impact basin show © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
May 9, 2016
NEW DELHI: In an unflinching response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi today said, "I have family in Italy I am not ashamed of. I have a 93-year-old mother I am not ashamed of."
May 8, 2016
BEIRUT — After months of unexpectedly swift advances, the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State is running into hurdles on and off the battlefield that call into question whether the pace of recent gains can be sustained.
May 8, 2016
The revised Class VIII textbook; Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru who?
The new Social Science textbook for Class VIII in schools of Rajasthan has erased Nehru from the pages of history. It does not mention who India’s first Prime Minister was.
May 8, 2016
Brief Scorecard: Gujarat Lions 164 for 5 (Karthik 51, Finch 29, McCullum 29) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 158 for 4 (Shakib 66*, Yusuf 63*, Praveen 2-19) by five wickets
Dinesh Karthik's fifty drove Lions' chase, Kolkata Knight Riders v Gujarat Lions, IPL 2016, Kolkata, May 8, 2016 – AFP
May 8, 2016
New Delhi: Delhi Police, which has its own CCTV network to monitor law and order across the national capital, is now baffled by what can be called a role reversal – criminals using such cameras to track movement of local police around their hideouts.
May 8, 2016
The widening rift in the Republican Party grew deeper on Sunday and threatened to upset the July convention as Donald J. Trump refused to rule out removing Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House, as the convention’s chairman.
May 7, 2016
NEW DELHI – Narendra Modi's 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign left no one in doubt that if he became the Prime Minister he would take a hardline with Pakistan and the terror attacks coming out of there would end. But two years into Narendra Modi's prime ministership, things haven't quite worked out that way.
May 7, 2016
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 195 for 3 (Kohli 108*) beat Rising Pune Supergiants 191 for 6 (Rahane 74, Tiwary 52, Watson 3-24) by seven wickets
Virat Kohli and Shane Watson have a mid-pitch conversation, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rising Pune Supergiants, IPL 2016, Bangalore, May 7, 2016 – BCCI
May 7, 2016
Kathmandu: Nepal government has levelled three charges against the country's ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyay to justify its decision to recall him, with officials on Saturday saying he was working 'against national interest'.
