Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says a look at all the data from 2012 shows that what they found last year was a version of what is popularly referred to as the 'God particle'. ...
04:02 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Police on Sunday claimed to have busted two separate gangs of vehicle thieves with the arrest of five persons and recovery of eight cars, 20 motorcycles and a country made pistol. ...
01:07 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Physicists in Italy said on Wednesday they are achingly close to concluding that what they found last year was the Higgs boson, the elusive "God particle." They need to eliminate one last remote possibility that it's something else. The long theorized subatomic particle would explain why matter has mass and has been called a missing cornerstone of physics. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Delhi Police will get Rs 4,455.21 crore for next fiscal, an increase of Rs 587.88 crore from the last budget, after the year saw demands that it spruce up training and infrastructure to provide better security to people, especially women, in the national Capital. For upgrading training facilities and installation of traffic signals Rs one crore and Rs four crore respectively have been allocated while another Rs two crore has...
05:13 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Excise duty on sports utility vehicles has been increased to 30 per cent, while all luxury vehicles, including super bikes will attract 100 per cent import duty. ...
03:27 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Hyundai Motor Co's India unit, the country's second biggest carmaker, said it raised vehicle prices by up to 20,878 rupees due to an increase in input costs and currency fluctuations. ...
05:58 PM, Feb 01, 2013
A red-faced Wikipedia has removed an article from its site detailing the 17th century 'Bicholim Conflict' - a clash between Portugal and India's Maratha Empire - after it emerged that such a war never occurred, and the piece and references included were entirely fictional. ...
03:57 AM, Jan 07, 2013
An incident like the brutal Delhi gangrape could have been prevented had the Supreme Court's guidelines on removal of tinted glasses from all vehicles been followed, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir said Wednesday. Inaugurating a fast track court in Saket district courts, Chief Justice Kabir said, "it's good to know that after the December 16 tragic incident, people have started raising their voice on crime against women." ...
12:37 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honoured by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year. The list is particularly heavy with Britain's Olympic heroes, but it also includes "Star Wars" actor Ewan McGregor, eccentric English singer Kate Bush, Roald Dahl illustrator Quentin Blake and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton,...
06:44 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Leading car manufacturer Toyota Motor Corp has reached an agreement worth more than USD 1 billion to settle a lawsuit involving unintended acceleration in some of its vehicles as the company recalled 7.43 million vehicles worldwide to fix the problem. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A crackdown has been launched against 400 buses having tinted windows and over 250 for picking up passengers in an unauthorized manner, the Delhi Police said on Saturday. ...
12:39 AM, Dec 23, 2012
The capture of the most wanted sub-atomic particle in physics - Higgs boson - has topped the chart of the year's ten biggest scientific breakthroughs. ...
01:39 PM, Dec 21, 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to accomplish 10 space missions in the next one year, parliament was informed on Wednesday. ...
01:39 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Vehicles have stopped plying from Sathyamangalam to Mysore following demonstrations and hartal by some Kannada outfits in parts of Karnataka protesting the Supreme Court directive to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. For the second consecutive day, more than 800 lorries, 300 vans and 200 other vehicles have been parked at Sathyamangalam, Bannari check-post and near Thimbam, police said. ...
01:59 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Sydney: Nano particles could prevent the immune system from attack of multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating nerve disease diagnosed between 20 and 40 years, according to a finding. MS affects any area of the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord, damaging the myelin sheath, which protects the nerve cells, slowing down or halting exchange of nerve signals. The symptoms vary from mild limb numbness to paralysis and blindness. "This finding...
02:26 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Beaumont: Two people died and more than 80 people were hurt on Thursday when at least 140 vehicles collided in Southeast Texas in a pileup that left trucks twisted on top of each other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from the wreckage. The collision occurred in extremely foggy conditions at about 8:45 am (local time) Thanksgiving Day on Interstate 10 southwest of Beaumont, a Gulf Coast city about 80...
09:15 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Chicago: General Motors Co. plans to build 500,000 electric vehicles a year by 2017, a company official said. GM plans to meet that goal through a variety of technology including plug-in electrics, pure electrics and hybrids that use the company's eAssist technology, said Mary Barra, GM's senior vice president of global product development, Wednesday. She made the remarks via satellite feed from Detroit to media gathered at GM's Electrification Experience...
02:42 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Deccan Chronicle has failed to provide Rs 100-crore bank guarantee and the Bombay High Court has refused to grant an extension. ...
12:03 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Chennai: A Jeddah-bound Air India flight carrying over 400 passengers was cancelled after it suffered damage when a vehicle hit it. The incident occurred this morning when a tractor carrying passengers' luggage hit the aeroplane on its side, following which the flight was cancelled, airport sources said. The passengers, most of them Haj pilgrims, would be flown to their onward destination in a separate flight later in the day, they...
10:54 AM, Oct 08, 2012
