Chef Saby talks about interesting food facts and how to keep 'cool' in summer. ...
06:02 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: To mark the third day of the London Olympics 2012, Google has replaced its usual logo with a new doodle - London 2012 fencing. The new doodle shows two fencers fighting against each other using bladed weapons. The letter 'L' in "Google" is shown as one of the bladed weapons being used by one of the fencers, while a helmet on the head of a fencer is modishly...
12:05 AM, Jul 30, 2012
The series opener on November 9 will be South Africa's first Test at the venue in nearly 50 years. ...
10:07 AM, Jul 19, 2012
Mexico City: Seven girls were raped and a number of boys were beaten by assailants who attacked a summer camp in central Mexico last week, authorities said. The incident occurred on Thursday night at the camp in Ixtapaluca, a city in Mexico State, the Mexico state Attorney General's Office said. About 90 children and teenagers had been camping in the area since July 9, the AG's office said. The camp...
10:34 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Washington: Six days after a sudden summer storm knocked large parts of US powerless, more than 580,000 homes and businesses in the American capital and eleven states were still without electricity with temperatures hovering around 37 degrees Celsius mark in many places. The number of households without power dropped considerably on Thursday from a peak of about four million from Ohio to New Jersey who lost power after the Friday...
11:20 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Mumbai was waterlogged with unrelenting monsoon showers for the second consecutive day even as North India awaited rains with power crisis worsening. However, the wait was over for the residents of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Heavy rainfall was reported from Lucknow, Barabanki, Unnao and Faizabad. Mumbai residents woke up to the second consecutive day of intermittent heavy rains on Thursday. The temperature has dipped to a cool 26...
08:31 AM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: India's largest dam, the Bhakra Nangal, has reached a critical level and there is a similar situation at seven reservoirs in the North. This has worsened the power situation further with major outages across Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The Bhakra Beas Management Board will hold an emergency meeting with partnering states including Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. Sources say the water inflow at Bhakra Dam mainly depends...
07:25 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Several parts of India reel under a severe power crisis. The UP CM asks MLAs to spend Rs 20 lakh each from their fund to buy cars. ...
11:56 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Several parts of India are reeling under a severe power crisis. Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP are the worst hit. ...
11:45 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Washington: Three days after a ferocious summer storm, about 1.7 million people, from the capital city of Washington through 10 states from Indiana to Delaware, are still without electricity even as they battle unrelenting heat. Making up more than half of those knocked powerless on Friday night, the total included about 410,000 in West Virginia, 400,000 in Ohio and 340,000 in Virginia, according to CNN. And officials said some may...
12:43 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: In view of the prevailing heat wave in the capital, the Delhi government on Sunday extended the summer vacation of city schools by one more week. All government schools and majority of private schools were scheduled to reopen on Monday but now they will reopen on July 9. The vacations had started on May 12. Meanwhile, the 26 per cent hike in power tariff for domestic consumers in...
04:00 PM, Jul 01, 2012
He's been in comics, cartoons, on TV and in movies, but when Spider-Man swings into theaters next week for new film 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' its makers bring out a more brooding and human web-slinger than fans have seen before. Director Marc Webb, known for low-budget film romance '500 Days of Summer,' explores not just the origin of how Peter Parker becomes crime-fighting superhero Spider-Man. He and the writers craft a...
03:47 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New York: On a weekend in January of 2010, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios pivoted faster than even Spider-Man would dare. A fourth installment of the hugely popular Spider-Man franchise was planned, with director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire returning to their trilogy of films that had earned more than $2.5 billion at the global box office and generally been hailed as a standard-bearer in big-screen comic book adaptations....
04:54 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Here are two very refreshing drinks, a cucumber lemongrass crush and a mango love bite, to beat the heat this summer. ...
06:05 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: The World Music Day has its origins in France. American musician Joel Cohen (no relations with Leonard Cohen) of the Boston Camerata fame proposed an all-night music celebration to mark the beginning of the summer solstice in 1976 while he was on a scholarship to study music in Paris. The first Fete de la Musique took place in Paris in 1982 as French music and dance director Maurice...
11:40 AM, Jun 21, 2012
As monsoon lashes against the Kerala coast, and rains creep up the sub-continent following their usual trail, I decide that I too in my fashion ...
12:28 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Jythesh Achary is a music producer and suffers from Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Achary tells how he discovered about the disorder and fought it to live a normal life. Also get to know how dogs are the best stress busters. ...
12:56 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Summer vacations are a very complicated time for parents nowadays. Should one send one's daughter to a Vedic Maths class? Is one's son old enough ...
12:03 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Cyrus also talks about the scorching heat in different parts of the country and Delhi University admission. ...
02:40 PM, Jun 10, 2012
