
New Delhi: Making its debut on a small 8km stretch on this day in 2002, Delhi Metro has had a stupendous journey in the last nine years with its network spreading far and wide across the National Capital Region giving the people an affordable mode of transport. Delhi Metro on Saturday completed nine years of operations in the national capital and now it has a network of nearly 200km, including...

03:15 PM, Dec 24, 2011

New Delhi: Traditional rivals India and Pakistan are best-suited for hockey's new nine-a-side format, Hockey 9s, which will make its debut with the LANCO International Super Series in Perth from October 20-23, said its mastermind Ric Charlesworth. With a view to revolutionise hockey and make it more free-flowing and viewer-friendly, Charlesworth, the Australian men's team coach, had conceptulised the nine-a-side format, which will played under new rules to ensure fast-paced...

09:41 PM, Oct 11, 2011

New Delhi: With an aim to make hockey faster and more viewer-friendly, Hockey Australia and infrastructure major LANCO Infratech Limited launched a new revolutionary nine-a-side tournament on Tuesday, to be held in Perth from October 20 to 23. The event, named 'LANCO International Super Series,' will feature hosts Australia, India, Pakistan and New Zealand in the men's category, while India, Australia and Malaysia will fight it out in the women's...

09:28 PM, Oct 11, 2011

Annapolis: While there were hundreds of human heroes in the days following the September 11 attacks, there were four-legged heroes too -- the dogs who searched for survivors and bodies in the rubble of buildings and planes. A decade later, the 9/11 dogs still alive are long retired, but there's a new generation coming up behind them. Red, a 12 year-old labrador who searched the rubble of the Pentagon with...

12:53 PM, Sep 09, 2011

It has been a while since Indie music made a mark. Now 'Band called 9' may be changing that. Their latest album is called Rewind and its in quite an original format - an audio film which also narrates stories of their past. ...

03:10 PM, May 10, 2011

New Delhi: India recorded 25 million cases of Malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009 - according to the World Health Organisation. That's one tenth the number of cases worldwide. And now a bigger threat emerging is that of drug resistance. About ten years ago, the most commonly used anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, stopped working against the malaria parasite, forcing countries to switch to the second line of treatment, called...

09:24 AM, Apr 25, 2011

New Delhi: India recorded 25 million cases of Malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009 - according to the World Health Organisation. That's one tenth the number of cases worldwide. And now a bigger threat emerging is that of drug resistance. About ten years ago, the most commonly used anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, stopped working against the malaria parasite, forcing countries to switch to the second line of treatment, called ...

09:24 AM, Apr 25, 2011

London: Trained dogs are capable of finding bombs, people and other objects with the help of a handler. Now American scientists have developed a new system which could turn canines into remotely guided 'super dogs' that can take on dangerous tasks. Researchers at the Auburn University in the US, who were behind the amazing innovation, said their technology could enhance the abilities of sniffer dogs to take on dangerous situations....

03:03 PM, Jan 23, 2011

London: Nine men, mostly of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and plotting terror attacks in Britain, a week after they were arrested in a series of raids across England and Wales. Police said they have charged the men, all aged between 19 and 28, with plotting an explosion - or explosions - "of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury...

01:49 PM, Dec 27, 2010

George Clooney's
Up in the Air bagged six nominations. ...

09:41 PM, Dec 16, 2009

The book tracks nine stories across the breadth of India. ...

01:04 AM, Oct 25, 2009

The interviews were done in 8 languages with the help of interpreters. ...

01:39 AM, Oct 21, 2009

The woman was later released given her age. ...

01:58 PM, Mar 11, 2009

CNN's Jeanne Moos has a look at a most unusual Canine. ...

04:12 PM, Mar 04, 2009