The Mozambican Council of Ministers has declared a national mourning Friday for former football player Mario Coluna, who died at the age of 78 in Maputo. “Taking into consideration his valuable deeds for this country, the government in its extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers decided to declare national mourning Friday when the flags […]
Immediately after seeing her performance in Imtiaz Ali’s “Highway” Shabana Azmi rushed to the Bhatts’ residence to congratulate the parents and their daughter Alia for the 20-year-old’s extraordinary performance. The multiple National award winning actress, acknowledged by many cineastes as among India’s finest, sees Alia as the true inheritor of her talent. Interestingly, Alia’s father […]
The Supreme Court Thursday stayed the release of four convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, ordering the status quo on a plea by the centre challenging the Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to release them. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam directed that the central government’s plea would be heard March 6.
At a time when scientists the world over are experimenting with making cheaper alternative energies for our future, a team of scientists has invented a new technology that increases the odds of helping algae-based biofuels cross the gap and come closer to reality. The team’s invention – the environmental photobioreactor (ePBR system) – is the […]
Former Indian Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi had personally requested that his resignation be accepted and “I consented”, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday. Admiral Joshi resigned Wednesday in the wake of a fire aboard a submarine that injured seven personnel and left two missing, taking moral responsibility for a series of accidents that have […]
Wouldn’t you shudder at the thought that almost 2,000 women were raped daily over a period of nine months during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide? Director Mrityunjay Devvrat says the purpose of rape scenes in his controversial movie “The Children of War” is not for generating business, but for showing “how men can become animals for […]
Charosa Wineries has announced its debut here with a host of wines and an eye on the Goa market, which accounts nearly 20 percent of Indian wine trade. According to the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Parag Kamat, the brand plans to first consolidate in southwestern Indian states like Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Karnataka before […]
Debunking earlier theories that big stars form within very massive, isolated ‘cores’ weighing at least 100 times the mass of the sun, research offers insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Astrophysicists studied Snake nebula which is located about 11,700 light years from earth from Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope. It was […]
Head Coach Ottis Gibson has described the limited overs series against England starting this weekend as important to the West Indies preparations for the defence of the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in March-April. The West Indies cricketers arrived in Antigua Monday and have had full training sessions at the match venue, the Sir […]
Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain, a three-time winner in the Brazilian Open clay court event here, has been upset by Federico Delbonis of Argentina 6-3, 3-6, 2-6. Almagro took the first set easily, but thereafter found the going tough as the Argentinean started stretching him on every point and lost the next two sets. Top-seeded […]