Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine's list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet.
Apart from them, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister AK Antony and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid are also in the list.
Indian spiritual leaders Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar are also in the list along with the BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. The list of '500 most powerful people on the planet' also lists India's top most intelligence official Alok Joshi of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon....
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04:45 PM, May 01, 2013
Beijing: Over 600 Chinese have applied to join an ambitious Dutch aerospace project that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars for permanent settlement. The Dutch project, while triggering enthusiasm to explore outer space, is also under fire with the trip being viewed by some as a suicide mission, with applicants being shipped to a planet that is uninhabitable by humans. The project, Mars One, is being...
07:00 PM, Apr 29, 2013
In this photo from 1997, Beverly Hills, 'The Backstreet Boys' donate an outfit from their world tour to Planet Hollywood's world renown collection of memorabilia. In this Los Angeles, California April 22, 2013 image the Backstreet Boys (from L-R) Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson, AJ McLean, Nick Carter and Brian Littrell touch their star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame. ...
11:16 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New York: Applications are already pouring in for the ambitious Mars mission that aims to send an adventurous duo - a man and a woman - on a 501-day-long flyby around the Red planet in January 2018. Millionaire Dennis Tito, who became the first space tourist in 2001, had unveiled the Inspiration Mars' "Mission for America" in February this year. Applications are now rolling in from enthusiasts, despite the fact...
03:49 PM, Apr 17, 2013
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, says it has agreed to sell its travel guide business, Lonely Planet, for 51.5 million pounds ($77.8 million) to US-based NC2 Media. The BBC said Tuesday the decision follows a review that laid out a strategy to focus on BBC brands. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Actor Rajkumar Yadav, who will share screen space with internationally acclaimed Indian actress Freida Pinto in 'NH10', is quite impressed with his co-star's down-to-earth attitude and describes her as a wonderful person. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 11, 2013
NASA has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the Moon and orbits its Sun like host star every 13 days. NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to the Sun in a new planetary system. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37, about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 22, 2013
New Delhi: An asteroid, listed as a potentially hazardous object, will pass in close proximity to the earth at noon on Wednesday. The space rock, however, poses no danger of impacting the earth. The asteroid "4179 Toutatis", will fly by earth at a distance of 69,31,175 km, N Sri Raghunandan Kumar Director and Secretary of Planetary Society India said. The asteroid will come close to earth on December 12 at...
04:34 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Sydney: From boats bobbing on the Great Barrier Reef, to hot air balloons hovering over the rainforest, and the hilltops and beaches in between, tens of thousands of scientists, tourists and amateur astronomers watched as the sun, moon and Earth aligned and plunged northern Australia into darkness during a total solar eclipse on Wednesday. Stubborn clouds that many feared would ruin the view parted - somewhat - in north Queensland,...
08:36 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Los Angeles: In an upcoming issue of the Superman comic series, his mild-mannered alter ego Clark Kent quits his job as a reporter at The Daily Planet. Kent, who has been with the newspaper since DC Comics debuted the character in 1940, quits in front of the entire newspaper staff after a heated discussion with Morgan Edge, the owner of the Daily Planet's parent company, reported Los Angeles Times. Before...
02:56 PM, Oct 24, 2012
London: Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth. Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond. The rocky planet, called '55 Cancri e', orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18...
12:28 PM, Oct 12, 2012
A sampling of the outpouring of love and memories from the Hollywood and sports worlds following the death of Michael Clarke Duncan, many of them on Twitter: - "I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike. He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile. He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned." - Tom...
11:34 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Los Angeles: Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in The Green Mile and such other box office hits as Armageddon, Planet of the Apes and Kung Fu Panda, is dead at age 54. Duncan died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his...
10:59 AM, Sep 04, 2012
London: Titan, Saturn's largest moon is "a weirdly Earth-like place" when it comes to geology, astronomers have claimed. Titan boasts landscapes shaped by the flow of rivers, though they are rivers of liquid methane, not of water. And, like Earth, the surface of Titan is surprisingly free of craters, implying that geological activity is constantly reshaping the moon, as also happens here. "It's a weirdly Earth-like place," Taylor Perron, assistant...
03:50 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Indian actress Freida Pinto will be seen romancing Batman star Christian Bale in director Terrence Malick's next - Knight of Cups. The film is a beautiful tale of a man is in search of love and truth, shooting has just started and Bale and Pinto were seen shooting beautiful romantic sequences at the Santa Monica Beach, said a statement. Also starring Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett, Knight of...
07:00 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: A rare celestial spectacle, transit of Venus, the last for this century, unfolded in the morning sky all across the country on Wednesday, enthralling the astro enthusiasts. Scientists and amateur astronomers alike celebrated the arrival of the Transit of Venus, peering up to the skies to watch a dark black spot slide over the surface of the Sun. The awesome spectacle was visible all over the country, including...
09:32 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Honolulu: None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again. From the US to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won't be for another 105 years. "If you can...
07:29 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates June 5 of every year as World Environment Day (WED). It was started in 1972 and is intended to raise global awareness about the need to take act to better and save the environment. The date of June 5 comes from the day that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm in 1972. It continued till June...
10:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Los Angeles: It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus." It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities - all for a chance...
03:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
San Francisco: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with Avatar director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week. The fledgling company, called Planetary Resources, will be unveiled at a Tuesday news conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, according to a press release issued this week....
01:03 PM, Apr 21, 2012
