Seoul: The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — or ICANN — voted to allow such scripts [...]
New Delhi: To tap the fast growing web and personal computers market, internet giant Google is working on an operating system, a move that is likely to pose a stiff challenge to Microsoft’s dominance. “We are working on an operating system… we feel, when other operating systems became part of the Web, the world was [...]
Researchers Pier Paolo Scaglioni and Georgia Konstantinidou have shown that using an investigative drug called BEZ235 in combination with low-dose radiation successfully eliminated non-small cell lung (NSCL) cancer in mice. “These early results suggest that the drug-radiation combination might be an effective therapy in lung cancer patients,” said Dr. Scaglioni. NSCL cancer cells often harbor [...]
New Delhi: Aussies’ all efforts to raise their score went to vain as Indian bowlers put an impressive show. The bowlers did excellent bowling and stopped Aussies. Since beginning Aussies were in defense mode. Though they succeeded in saving wickets, their tricks to bring runs failed. Having won the toss, Australian elected to bat. As [...]
Mumbai: The State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, reported a 10.2 per cent rise in quarterly profit on trading gains and rising loan demand. The bank, which along with its associates controls almost a quarter of Indian bank loans and deposits, said on Saturday its July-September net profit rose to Rs 24.9 billion [...]
New Delhi: Former US president George W Bush, who played an instrumental role in the signing of the India-US nuclear deal, on Saturday said the pact was New Delhi’s “passport to the world”. Calling the accord “historic”, Bush said at the HT Leadership Summit in Delhi that it would provide India an opportunity to get [...]
New Delhi: The Power couple of Bollywood Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor today addressed the ongoing Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. Addressing the summit, duo replied a volley of questions including their personal life, professional life and future plans. On marriage plan, Saif Ali Khan said that there is no rush to get married at [...]
Islamabad : A Pakistani anti-terror court, conducting the trial of seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks has declared 14 other accused, including Ajmal Kasab, as “absconders” and adjourned the matter till November 7. During Saturday’s proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks – including Kasab, the [...]
New Delhi : The war of words between the CPM and the Home Minister over Maoists has intensified. CPM chief Prakash Karat hit out at Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday, for saying that the CPM and Maoists were friends till recently. In a statement, Karat said, “Far from being the CPM’s ‘comrades in arms’, [...]
Tegucigalpa/Washington: The international community saluted on Friday an agreement between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti to solve the political crisis in the Central American country. The Organisation of American States announced late Thursday that an agreement has been reached, whereby the Honduran Congress is to decide whether Zelaya is [...]
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