Mumbai : She’s just 18, but Akanksha Sarda has already made history. She is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad. “It’s an amazing feeling…It hasn’t sunk in yet. People say girls aren’t good at physics, I think I have made a point here,” said Akanksha Sarda, Gold [...]
New York : How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life? Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. Great teachers and early childhood programs can have a big short-term effect. But the impact tends to fade. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent [...]
Islamabad : 45 survivors have been rushed to hospital after a plane with 159 people on board crashed near Islambabad in the Margalla Hills. Civil aviation officials say at least eight bodies have been recovered so far from the wreckage – including, reportedly, the pilot’s. The plane, a commercial Airbus belonging to Airblue, a private [...]
New Delhi : This is the third air crash in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, a Lufthansa MD-11 cargo plane crashed while landing at Riyadh , smoke was emitting out from the rear of the aircraft. Both the pilots were rushed to a hospital. In another incident, a Beechcraft Premier Business jet had a [...]
Buenos Aires : Diego Maradona was given the boot as Argentina’s soccer coach before he could resign. His stint as coach of the Albiceleste ended far less successfully than his time as a player with the national team. The Argentine Football Association, which hired the former star in November 2008, said Tuesday that his contract [...]
New Delhi : Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Terminal 3, sixth largest in the world, will start commercial operations on July 28. International flights will start taking off and landing at T3 instead of the old international terminal. But what few are prepared for are problems that could well be a recipe for chaos, like lost [...]
Mumbai : Doctors at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital have come up with a unique way to maintain hygiene at the government hospital. They’re trading in their stethoscopes for broomsticks every morning and are scrubbing down hospital walls to set an example to inconsiderate visitors. Patients at KEM Hospital were in for a shock Monday morning as [...]
Ahmedabad : Former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah will be questioned on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inside Sabarmati Jail over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter. Shah is likely to be questioned about his role in the death of Sohrabuddin and his wife, Kauser Bi and to what extent [...]
New Delhi : The Opposition has been crying hoarse over price rise issue and targeting the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government. But the aam aadmi (common man) is not only dealing with rising prices of food items but now foodgrains that could feed about 1.4 crore people in the country is at risk of rotting. [...]
Bhubaneswar : The Orissa government on Tuesday began acquiring land for the $ 12 billion steel project South Korean steel major POSCO has planned in the state’s Jagatsinghpur district despite opposition, officials said. A team of district officials began the acquisition in Bhuyianpal village. They acquired two plots of land from two villagers and provided [...]
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