Washington: Forty years ago, NASA Viking mission made history when it became the first to successfully land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars. As engineers and scientists planned for later missions to Mars, the rolls of microfilm containing the Viking data were stored away for safe keeping and potential later use. It would be another […]

Ranchi: JMM leader Hemant Soren has lodged a complaint against police officer Anurag Gupta under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for using “humiliating words” against him. Soren visited a police station here on Sunday night and produced a CD to claim that Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Gupta […]

New Delhi:  Animal activists call him the “unluckiest elephant” they had known so far and it took over 50 police officers, several foresters and a 20-hour-long operation following years of legal battle to finally rescue Mohan from slavery. Now free from its influential and politically-backed captors in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, after the district […]

Mumbai: Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on Monday admitted to a virtual breakdown in communication with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) national leadership. He attributed this mainly to a “generational shift” in the BJP — with which the Sena is allied both in the central and Maharashtra governments. Seasoned BJP leaders have been replaced by […]

Crime doesn’t pay is something almost everyone is taught around the world, but proves to be less than true (at least in the short run, which is what the great masses of people are concerned with). But is this the only wrong belief about crime and criminals we have, or are our other many long-established […]

Kolkata:  Marshalling creativity and fantasy, an IIT-Kharagpur student has depicted the beauty of the premier institute’s sprawling campus with an animation on the lines of HBO’s hit fantasy drama TV series Game of Thrones (GoT) opening song. Shared by IIT-Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti on his Facebook page, the video by student Prateek Srivastava has […]

Shimla, July 25:  The Himachal Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved the amended state Hydropower Policy, aimed at ending red-tapism in the state and making it more investor-friendly, an official said. “The developer will now have to submit proposals to the deputy commissioner concerned to obtain approvals or no-objection certificates (NOCs) from different departments, including the […]

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday said it will move the Delhi High Court against the arrest of its legislators by Delhi Police in false cases. The AAP accused the Centre of using Delhi Police as a “political tool” and said police had failed to control the rising crime against women in […]

New Delhi: The countries under the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) have called for imparting urgency to the initiative for the sake of integration and connectivity in the south-east Asian region. “The ministers endorsed the SOM (Senior Officials Meeting) report and emphasised that collaboration under MGC must be given a sense of urgency since it actively supports […]

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Monday over a private member’s bill on giving special status to Andhra Pradesh, which could not be taken up in the House on Friday due to pandemonium. The Congress, which raised the issue on Monday morning as well, disrupted the proceedings post-lunch over the issue, with its […]