London: Nearly 20 years after Oxford University awarded her an honorary doctorate in Civil Law, democracy icon and Myanmar opposition leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi will arrive in UK to receive it at a special ceremony on June 20, the university on Thursday said. Suu Kyi studied, married and lived in Oxford for many years until 1988, when she left for Myanmar to visit her ailing mother, but did not...
03:38 PM, May 24, 2012
Dubai: India-born Rohan Sampath knew he would do well in his Grade 12 exams but becoming the ICSE topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks was unimaginable. The 17-year-old now looks forward to joining Stanford University and unlike many brought up in Dubai, he really hopes he can return to India some day. "My first reaction was disbelief. I thought it was a typo. I didn't expect it," Rohan, a...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Steve Jobs admired Henry Ford. Therefore it shouldn't come as a big surprise that the Apple co-founder dreamed of designing a revolutionary car - the iCar. Speaking at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, J Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler said, "Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar." Drexler added that has Jobs built the dream car "it would've been probably 50 per...
05:03 PM, May 19, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
London: Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's Chelsea have bid for the London landmark Battersea Power Station site where they could build a 60,000-seater stadium, the Premier League soccer team said on Friday. The derelict power station on the south bank of the Thames, a familiar site with its four white, 300-foot chimney stacks, "one of London's most famous buildings ... has the potential to become one of the most iconic football...
02:18 PM, May 05, 2012
Washington: Five prestigious US universities will create free online courses for students worldwide through a new, interactive education platform dubbed Coursera, the founders announced Wednesday. The two founders, both professors of computer science at Stanford University, also announced that they had received $16 million in financing from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Coursera will offer more than three dozen college courses in the coming year through its website at...
07:44 AM, Apr 19, 2012
London: Chelsea produced a performance of resilience and ruthlessness to hand Barcelona their first Champions League loss in 14 months on Wednesday, winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge to leave the semi-final delicately poised ahead of the second leg in Spain. The irrepressible Didier Drogba grabbed the winner in first-half injury time with Chelsea's only shot on target in a match they spent almost entirely on the back-foot, leaving Barcelona to...
02:42 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Barcelona: Dani Alves claimed that Chelsea lost to Barcelona in their contentious 2009 Champions League semi-final because the English side showed 'fear'. The Premier League side led 1-0 in the second leg at Stamford Bridge after a scoreless draw in the first encounter and appeared to be on their way to the final when Barca were reduced to 10 men. However, Andres Iniesta's stoppage-time strike eventually sent the Catalans through,...
06:11 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the aviation sector as the 'real World Wide Web', a study has said it is currently contributing Rs 33,000 crore or 0.5 per cent of India's GDP and supporting 1.7 million jobs in the country, besides creating much-needed critical assets. The study, conducted by Oxford Economics for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently, says aviation not only provided significant economic benefits to the Indian economy and...
11:30 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: How do you define a film? Is it something captured on camera or is this something that deserves to be captured on camera? What is 'The Godfather'? A film, an epic, a story, a subtle story, a life portrayed on celluloid, a story so subtle that it achieved the status of an epic, or it is just 'The Godfather'? The film has completed 40 years but does it...
04:38 PM, Mar 17, 2012
'On the Road' is produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on a classic 1957 novel of the same name. ...
07:14 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Former cricketer and financier Allen Stanford was convicted on Tuesday for the biggest investment fraud ever. A whopping sum of $7 billion fraud investment landed Allen Stanford in the Texas court where he was declared found guilty on 13 counts of a 14-count criminal indictment. Having spend 3 years in jail followed by ill health and unfit for trial, Stranford has earlier tried to have his case completely...
08:46 AM, Mar 07, 2012
It cost Roman Abramovich around 28 million Pounds to sack Carlo Ancelotti and hire Andrew Villas-Boas. Seven months later, history has repeated itself at Stamford ...
02:18 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of presentation of Budget for 2012-13, automobile makers like Ford and Renault are raising their voice against imposition of any additional duty on diesel vehicles that has been demanded by many quarters. As the government gets ready with the Budget, there has been speculation that higher taxes could be imposed on diesel passenger vehicles as the subsidised fuel has been diverted for personal use by the affluent....
08:12 PM, Feb 28, 2012
London: A British mother and her son have been jailed for starving two dogs after imprisoning them in an attic and nailing it shut. A court heard how the dogs - Rottweiler Axel and Staffordshire bull terrier Bully - were starved, denied water and exercise for weeks before they died in agony, emaciated and dehydrated, the Daily Mail reported. Jamie Taylor, 31, and his mother Julie, 50, were each jailed...
02:03 AM, Feb 24, 2012
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