New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General has observed safety related works are being accorded low priority by Railways. Though sufficient funds were available, large number of road over-bridge (ROB) and road under-bridge (RUB) works were pending as on March 2011 and the actual budget allocations reflected low priority due to inadequate commitment by the Railways, the CAG report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said. Construction of these are essential...
07:53 PM, May 15, 2012
HYDERABAD: A student of city-based Nalsar University of Law, Suhasini Sen, has been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship for 2012.The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was instituted in 2000 with the munificence of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Nalsar student has bagged the prestigious scholarship in a stiff global competition. Fifty outstanding individuals were selected for the scholarship from 23 countries, of whom only three are from India. Of...
11:08 AM, May 08, 2012
London: Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's Chelsea have bid for the London landmark Battersea Power Station site where they could build a 60,000-seater stadium, the Premier League soccer team said on Friday. The derelict power station on the south bank of the Thames, a familiar site with its four white, 300-foot chimney stacks, "one of London's most famous buildings ... has the potential to become one of the most iconic football...
02:18 PM, May 05, 2012
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton are celebrating their first wedding anniversary on Sunday. ...
10:04 PM, Apr 29, 2012
New York: Intel Corp. said that PCs with chips from its new generation of processors, featuring a revolutionary design, will be available this week. The new generation, code-named "Ivy Bridge," is the first to be made with a 3-D structure. Miniature fins jut out of the plane of the chip, letting Intel cram more features into the same space. That means the chips can be faster while consuming less power....
10:50 AM, Apr 24, 2012
London: Chelsea produced a performance of resilience and ruthlessness to hand Barcelona their first Champions League loss in 14 months on Wednesday, winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge to leave the semi-final delicately poised ahead of the second leg in Spain. The irrepressible Didier Drogba grabbed the winner in first-half injury time with Chelsea's only shot on target in a match they spent almost entirely on the back-foot, leaving Barcelona to...
02:42 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Barcelona: Dani Alves claimed that Chelsea lost to Barcelona in their contentious 2009 Champions League semi-final because the English side showed 'fear'. The Premier League side led 1-0 in the second leg at Stamford Bridge after a scoreless draw in the first encounter and appeared to be on their way to the final when Barca were reduced to 10 men. However, Andres Iniesta's stoppage-time strike eventually sent the Catalans through,...
06:11 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Raipur: Naxals allegedly blew up a bridge in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Wednesday morning, just before a state minister's convoy was to pass by, police said. According police officials in Kanker, the incident took place around 10 am under Amabeda police station area, in which no casualities were reported. State Forest Minister Vikram Usendi's convoy was scheduled to go to Amabeda from Kanker this morning using this bridge, they added....
12:54 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The series of galloping horse images on the Google home page that seems to spring to life at the press of the play button is there as it is the 182nd birth anniversary of Eadweard J Muybridge (the J stands for James), the man behind the first ever galloping horse moving image (also the American bison cantering and more). A man of many names, he began his life...
02:06 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has decided to construct foot over bridges (FOB) to connect monorail stations with the suburban railway stations. "The FOB will help commuters, travelling towards Wadala and further, reach for monorail without being hassled by the vehicular traffic on roads," MMRDA Joint Project Director (PR) Dilip Kawathkar said on Friday. The first of such FOBs - 250 meters long and 4 meters wide -...
10:12 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Four labourers were killed in a bridge collapse in Pauri Garhwal district early on Sunday morning. Sixteen others were injured and many others are feared to be still trapped under the debris. The under-construction structure over Alaknanda river collapsed when concrete was being poured into the steel frame. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has ordered an inquiry into the incident. The reasons for the collapse of the bridge were...
12:11 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Cambridge: About 100 students protested on Friday ahead of a speech at Cambridge University by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief whose career collapsed after he was charged with sexual assault. The 62-year-old French politician, often called DSK, was scheduled to speak on Europe's financial crisis at the university's debating society later on Friday despite calls for the event to be canceled. The protesters said the university should...
10:17 AM, Mar 10, 2012
It cost Roman Abramovich around 28 million Pounds to sack Carlo Ancelotti and hire Andrew Villas-Boas. Seven months later, history has repeated itself at Stamford ...
02:18 PM, Mar 05, 2012
London: Oscar-winning silent movie 'The Artist' was originally shot in colour in case film bosses didn't want to show the picture in black and white. The film was the big winner at Sunday night's AcademyAwards, taking five prizes including the coveted Best Picture title as well as Best Actor for its star Jean Dujardin and Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius. The Best Picture win made 'The Artist' only the second...
12:56 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Interview with Mark Bridges for The Artist. Q. Congratulations. What classic Hollywood films in terms of the visual style of the wardrobe, et cetera, specifically what films inspired what you created for 'The Artist'? A. There's a great film called 'Show People' starring Marion Davies, which was all shot on the back lot of MGM at the end of the '20s. Great research. We also watched things like...
01:58 PM, Feb 27, 2012
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