May 8, 2015
LONDON: British prime minister David Cameron has confounded pollsters and pundits by winning a sensational second five-years term in office for his Conservative party.
May 8, 2015
Orb-weaver spider silk - which is one of the toughest materials found in nature - could be made up to 3.5 times stronger using a new technique.
A research team from the University of Trento in Italy sprayed 15 of the spiders with carbon nanotube and graphene solutions.
It caused some of the spiders to spin silk up to 3.5 times stronger than the web typically spun by the species.
May 8, 2015
Mumbai: All eyes are on the Bombay High Court which will hear Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's appeal against his conviction in the 2002 hit-and-run case and his plea for bail on Friday.
May 7, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Sunrisers Hyderabad 201 for 4 (Morgan 63, Dhawan 54) beat Rajasthan Royals 194 for 7 (Smith 68, Morris 34*) by seven runs
Eoin Morgan and Shikar Dhawan scored rapidfire fifties, Rajasthan Royals v Sunrisers Hyderabad, IPL 2015, Mumbai, May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015
MUMBAI – Salman Khan has today become the second leading Bollywood star in two years to be sentenced to a sizeable prison term, following his conviction for culpable homicide after a hit-and-run accident; this follows Sanjay Dutt’s imprisonment in 2013, also for five years, for illegal possession of weapons.
May 7, 2015
OREGON – During the rainy fall and winter, most Oregonians probably don't give much thought to Lost Lake, a shallow lake surrounded by pine trees that sits near a highway.
May 6, 2015
NEW DELHI – Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bad mouthing previous governments during his visit to Canada in April.
May 6, 2015
Mumbai: The Mumbai sessions court on Wednesday convicted Salman Khan of culpable homicide in a 2002 hit-and-run case.
The court said all charges against the actor have been proven.
Khan was accused of driving his Toyota Land Cruiser into a group of homeless men sleeping rough in suburban Mumbai after spending the evening in an upmarket bar.
May 6, 2015
NEW DELHI – India will push ahead this week with plans to build a port in southeast Iran, two sources said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi keen to develop trade ties with Central Asia and prepared to fend off U.S. pressure not to rush into any deals with Iran.
May 6, 2015
Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday took "serious notice" of the alleged involvement of Indian intelligence agency RAW in "whipping up terrorism" in Pakistan, the military said.
