
Ahmedabad: Mild tremors measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale were felt this morning in Kutch district, officials said in Ahmedabad. The earthquake had its epicentre at 34 km northwest of Khavada village in Kutch, officials at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said. Aftershocks measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale were felt in the afternoon around 3 pm, they said, adding that the aftershocks had the epicentre at 30 km...

06:45 PM, May 13, 2012

Asansol: Nearly 10 people, including 5 policemen were injured in clashes between locals and policemen in Asansol in West Bengal. The incident took place when the locals objected to the construction of a boundary wall at a steel plant belonging to IISCO, near Purushottampur. The police resorted to lathicharge and lobbed tear gas shells to control the angry mob. Residents were protesting at the house of state Law Minister Moloy...

01:13 PM, Feb 26, 2012

Cambridge: British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neuron disease in...

01:38 PM, Jan 08, 2012

New Delhi: India is stepping up its research capabilities to pick up early signals of an impending earthquake by setting up an network of observatories to study the intricate processes that take place in seismically active zones. A string of observatories are already in place at Ghuttu in Himachal Pradesh, Shillong in Meghalaya, Koyna in Maharashtra, and Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar to monitor various earthquake precursory phenomena. "We...

04:34 PM, Sep 20, 2011

Seismologist Dr Supriyo Mitra of Indian Institute of Science Education & Research said with India constantly pushing against Asia, huge amounts of energy is being coiled up underground. ...

02:04 PM, Sep 20, 2011

Washington: NASA must study the topic of sex in space, experts have suggested. According to them, the US space agency has always been silent on the subject of sex in space -- how would it work? Or can a child be conceived in zero gravity? In a chapter, titled 'Sex on Mars', published in the 'Journal of Cosmology', Dr Rhawn Joseph from Brain Research Laboratory in California has discussed everything...

04:08 PM, Jan 13, 2011

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Massa continues his recovery from head injuries suffered in July. ...

11:43 AM, Dec 14, 2009

Formula One teams are united in a row with the FIA about the 2010 regulations. ...

02:30 AM, May 23, 2009

The Kenya Red Cross said the death toll was 113 but was expected to rise. ...

07:14 PM, Feb 02, 2009

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12:15 PM, Sep 10, 2008

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10:03 AM, Sep 09, 2008

BMW M3 is the fourth generation of M3 cars and sports a V8 engine. ...

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What is molokia and why the Egyptians love it. ...

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