Jaipur: Soaring petrol prices have forced the Army to look for other options in the SUV variant and it started summer trials of Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari in Thar desert in Rajasthan on Monday.
The vehicles are being driven by Army drivers to test their endurance, fuel consumption, temperature, cross country drive performance with and without load, power-to-wheel ratio among other factors, Army sources said.
Two variants of Mahindra Scorpio and one variant of Tata Safari are under the trial on desert tracks in Jaisalmer in the western sector, they said....
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10:50 PM, May 13, 2013
Cambridge: South Korean rapper PSY was welcomed to Harvard University on Thursday night by hundreds of screaming and shouting students and fans, as the 'Gangnam Style' star participated in a conversation inside an ornate church dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in World War I. PSY began addressing students and faculty by noting that his presence at the Ivy League school "is so weird." He recalled...
12:14 PM, May 13, 2013
London: 'Iron Man' star Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin were starstruck at meeting PSY during the Met Ball and cornered him for a picture. The 40-year-old actress and her Coldplay singer husband asked the South Korean singer for a snap so that they could show their children, Apple, eight, and seven-year-old Moses, reported Contactmusic. Her children are known to be huge fan of 'Gangnam' style hitmaker. "Our son...
06:03 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Army has decided to phase-out Maruti Gypsy from its inventory with Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari in the race to replace the vehicle under a project expected to cost the force more than Rs 3,000 crore. The Indian Army is the biggest customer of the Maruti Gypsy utility vehicles with more than 25,000 such vehicles in service and uses them in all light vehicle operations including...
12:08 PM, May 11, 2013
Thursday: Pakistan on Thursday shared the autopsy reports on two Indian prisoners - Sarabjit Singh and Chamel Singh. While the autopsy report on Chamel Singh did not define the cause of his death, the report on Sarabjit listed his cause of death as head injury caused by blunt weapon. Chamel had died in a Lahore jail under mysterious circumstances. His autopsy was conducted only two months after his death. The...
08:10 PM, May 09, 2013
Amritsar: Doctors at the Amritsar Government Medical College who conducted the second autopsy on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh revealed that his vital organs - stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder - were missing in his body. "The following viscera was not present in the body of Sarabjit Singh, namely, stomach, gall bladder, heart and kidneys," the doctors told mediapersons, adding that the other viscera present in the body had been...
04:59 PM, May 03, 2013
The story of South Korean rap sensation Psy's ascent to global stardom with his megahit 'Gangnam Style' has now been immortalised in full color and with appropriate dramatic flourishes in a comic book. "Fame:Psy", which went on sale in the United States and South Korea on Wednesday, focuses mainly on what went into making 'Gangnam Style', which catapulted the sunglassed singer with the garish jackets to global fame and became...
10:31 AM, May 01, 2013
Ghaziabad: The autopsy report of the murder suspect who allegedly hanged himself in police custody in Ghaziabad on Sunday has revealed that he was strangled to death. Additional Director General (ADG) of Uttar Pradesh Police Arun Kumar said on Monday: "Five Indirapuram police station personnel have been suspended and a case of murder has been filed against unidentified people." He said that Inspector Gorakh Nath Yadav, Sub-inspector Rajvir Singh, night...
07:48 AM, Apr 30, 2013
London: South Korean singer Psy, whose recently released follow-up track 'Gentleman' to hit number 'Gangnam Style' is topping the chart numbers as well, is relieved to have escaped from being a one-hit wonder. The singer describes the week of the new track's release as the worst time ever, reported Digital Spy. "I released it on April 12, and on April 13 I had a huge concert in Korea... So that...
11:31 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Seoul: South Korean rapper Psy, whose latest video 'Gentleman' tracked global megahit 'Gangnam Style' by going viral on the Internet, has been knocked from the top of the music charts in his native country by a 63-year-old easy listening pop singer. 'Gangnam Style', which holds the YouTube record for most views with more than 1.5 billion, catapulted the sunglassed Korean with the garish jackets to world stardom and made him...
11:09 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Moscow: A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said. A third nurse managed to save two patients and they were the only three thought to have survived, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Health Ministry. Police said the fire, which broke out at about 2 am local time (7 pm Eastern, 2300 GMT) in the...
08:06 AM, Apr 26, 2013
London: Korean pop star Psy's latest single 'Gentleman' has made him a global star, but in his native South Korea the video has been banned by the officials. The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), a major broadcaster in the country, has reportedly banned the new music video as the rapper is shown abusing public property, reports contactmusic.com. KBS said that the scene doesn't meet its standards as a public broadcaster. It...
10:19 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Seoul: A major South Korean broadcaster says it has banned PSY's new music video because the rapper is shown abusing public property. The 'Gentleman' video opens with PSY kicking a cone that says 'no parking.' State-funded KBS said Thursday the scene doesn't meet its standards as a public broadcaster. Two spokesmen say KBS has banned other videos for similar reasons in the past. They spoke anonymously because they say it...
06:57 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: South Korean rapper Psy's new video, 'Gentleman' has crossed the 100 million views mark. The singer is chasing the success of his own megahit 'Gangnam Style'. 'Gangnam Style', which holds the YouTube record for most views ever with more than 1.5 billion, made the corpulent Korean a global star and one of the best-known faces to come out of the growing K-pop music scene. The 35-year-old's new single...
12:41 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Los Angeles: 'Gangnam Style' rapper PSY has set a record with his follow-up video 'Gentleman', as the new song has already got more than 70 million views on YouTube. The 35-year-old's new single got a whopping 18.9 million views on the day of its release, breaking the existing records for most views for a video on its first day on YouTube, reported Aceshowbiz. "51 million views in 40hours! My God!(sic)"...
02:48 PM, Apr 16, 2013
London: Korean pop star Psy's latest single 'Gentleman' has hit 53 million views on YouTube within just two days, owing to the popularity of his hit number 'Gangnam style'. However, "Gentleman", the video of which went online April 13, has a long way to go to catch up with the 1.5 billion views of 'Gangnam style', reports thesun.co.uk. 'Gentleman' witnessed 18 million views just after 24 hours of its release,...
07:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Seoul: Hips swinging, South Korean rapper Psy launched the dance and video of his new song 'Gentleman' at a packed Seoul concert on Saturday, with nearly 160,000 tuned in online to see if he could carry off a repeat of his megahit 'Gangnam Style'. The song has become a huge hit and has received more than 13,838,900 views on YouTube till the time this report is published. Psy now holds...
01:23 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Seoul: South Korean rapper Psy released his much-anticipated new single on Thursday hoping to repeat the success of 'Gangnam Style' that made him the biggest star to emerge from the growing K-pop music scene. The video for 'Gangnam Style' has become the most watched item on YouTube with more than 1.5 billion hits and Psy's horse-riding moves sparked an international dance craze. The details of his latest single, 'Gentleman', were...
11:33 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Cairo: Clashes between Egyptian Muslims and Christians erupted early Saturday in a town near Cairo, leaving at least five people dead, security officials said. Investigators said they were waiting for autopsy reports to confirm how the men - four Christians and a Muslim - were killed in the small town of Khosoos, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the capital. President Mohammed Morsi's office released a statement condemning the...
07:20 AM, Apr 07, 2013
