New Delhi: IAF search teams have found the remains of the pilot of the ill-fated MiG-29 fighter aircraft that crashed last month in Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh. The remains of Squadron Leader Dharmendra Singh Tomar were found near Kherot village in the Chokhang hills at an altitude of 15,000-17,000 feet, Western Air Command spokesman Wing Commander SK Mehta said. The last village on this route is Kherot after which...
06:51 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Gurgaon: Excited members of American heavy metal band Metallica were looking forward to a "loud and explosive" performance for their Indian fans, just minutes before their gig here Friday was cancelled. The band's members include lead guitarist Kirk Hammett (who joined the band in 1983), bassist Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. They landed here on Friday. "Our music is head banging, loud and explosive that is exactly we...
12:11 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Washington: The United States has assured India that it was 'continuing to work' on the issue of hundreds of Indian students affected by the 'horrible visa scam' by California based 'sham' Tri-Valley University. Some 85 per cent of over 1500 TVU students were Indian, mostly from Andhra Pradesh. US authorities are reviewing a letter sent by the Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that...
11:10 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Srinagar: A mild intensity earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale rocked the Kashmir Valley on Saturday night, officials said in Srinagar. "The earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on Richter Scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir at 8.52 pm," Natural Disaster Management Cell coordinator Aamir Ali said. He said there was no report of any loss caused by the mild tremor. ...
10:19 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Shri Ram School in Delhi, Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh Chittoor and the Woodstock School in Mussoorie have been voted India's most respected day, boarding and international schools in the EducationWorld-C fore Schools Survey 2011. The survey has also effectively ended the four-year reign of Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) as the country's most respected traditional/legacy boarding school. The school boasts of many eminent students such as...
08:55 PM, Sep 14, 2011
San Francisco: Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs relinquished the reins at Apple Inc to right-hand man Tim Cook on Wednesday, after 14 years in command at a company he brought back from the brink and turned into the world's largest technology corporation. Jobs, who fought and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer and revolutionized the technology arena with the iPhone in 2007, is deemed the heart and soul of...
07:10 AM, Aug 25, 2011
Srinagar: Five militants and an Army officer were killed and two jawans injured as troops on Saturday foiled a major infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Gurez sector of Kashmir Valley. A large group of heavily-armed militants was trying to sneak into the Gurez Valley from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir when they were noticed by troops. The militants were challenged by the soldiers, leading to a gunbattle. "Five militants have...
06:11 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Kolkata: Flood situation in West Bengal continued to be grim with most of the major rivers in spate following increased discharge from reservoirs of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and Tilpara and Kangsabati barrages, as the death toll shot to 36 on Thursday. State Irrigation Minister Manas Bhuniya said in the Assembly lobby that several rivers in North and South Bengal were flowing above the danger mark as further release from...
08:03 PM, Aug 18, 2011
I can tell you this much and I tell you this with extreme confidence and surety: The Valley of Masks is not like anything you have read. I have been reading books for almost three-fourths of my life and have never encountered anything like this book. The Valley of Masks grabbed me from the word. I had to put the book down and think about every chapter, every situation and...
01:21 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Tarun J Tejpal's 'The Valley of Masks' , published by Fourth Estate / HarperCollins, examines the pathologies of power, purity and dogma to give us a frightening yet ultimately redemptive vision of the future. In the words of Ashis Nandy, critic and social commentator, 'This brilliant, superbly imaginative but terribly disturbing novel transcends borders, cultures, reading habits and literary fashions. As a story of the inhumanity of any human search...
03:09 PM, Aug 04, 2011
New Delhi: The US has alerted Indian students planning to go to America about the existence of visa fraud rings and fraudulent document vendors. This in the wake of a raid on yet another US university on the alleged charges of visa fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration authorities raided the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) on Thursday and has accused it of enrolling more foreign students...
11:41 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Washington: Authorities in US have initiated action against another university, this time in the suburb of Washington, where an overwhelming number of students are from India with majority of them reportedly from Andhra Pradesh. However, based on their experience of the "shamed" Tri Valley University in California, wherein the Indian government had strongly objected to the manner in which students from India were treated, federal authorities this time have taken...
07:51 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Jammu: The Indian Army began the two-day celebrations of the 12th anniversary of its victory in the 1999 Kargil war on Monday in this sub-sector of Jammu and Kashmir. A presentation, marking the beginning of the two-day fiesta, about the war at the Umpa La ridge, which provides a panoramic view to most of the battlefields around Drass town, 150 kms from summer capital Srinagar, where Indian and Pakistan forces...
01:47 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Los Angeles: As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Network was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups. But his involvement in the technology industry drew public notice this week with news that Timberlake, whose character in the Oscar-nominated movie helped shape Facebook's early days, will take a stake in Myspace, the ailing social...
08:49 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Dubai: Kerala could well become an IT hub as the advantages enjoyed by Bengaluru, the country's 'Silicon Valley', start to wear thin, said a senior IT official in Dubai. Gigo Joseph, CEO of Infopark Kochi said the congestion in India's leading IT hubs has presented Kerala with the unique opportunity to market itself as an alternative investment destination for IT and IT-enabled services companies. "Moreover, it can benefit from IT...
06:15 PM, Jun 26, 2011
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As the years have passed, what amazes me is the perseverance of journalists who continue to cover the story. There's even an irrational hope that ...
03:46 PM, May 22, 2011
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Perhaps the darkest period in this regard came in the late 90s and 2000, when militancy driven by the Lashkar-e-Toiba was at a peak. The ...
03:54 PM, May 21, 2011
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The militants we met were probably the last batch of fully home-grown insurgents fighting in Kashmir. 1995 marked the takeover of the struggle by non-Kashmiri ...
03:45 PM, May 20, 2011
