The United States-led military coalition on Sunday hit Libyan defence targets with cruise missiles and launched air attacks as Muammar Gaddafi vowed to open his arms depots to the people to retaliate against the Western 'aggression.'
More than 110 Tomahawk missiles from US and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets, Vice Admiral William Gortney, director of the joint staff, told reporters at Pentagon
Narendra Kumar brought Day Three of the LFW to a spectacular close with his latest line of garments, created in association with denims brand Killer Jeans. With a space age theme and futuristic funk on display, the showstopper was modelled by Neil Nitin Mukesh. Don't miss it!
Uruguay, the last team to qualify for the World Cup, carried the South American flag furthest at the tournament before bowing to European superiority in their 3-2 semi-final defeat by Netherlands on Tuesday.
Thayil, the author of 'Narcopolis' and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, will join his fellow judges to look for the best works of translated fiction, selected from entries published in the UK and Ireland between May 2019 and April 2020.
ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair told PTI that the agency has invited the scientists and expects representation from scientists behind Indian payloads (scientific instruments) as well those from guest instruments, including from NASA and the European Space Agency. An ISRO official said, "It will be a closed-door meeting. The scientists will analyse data from preliminary findings".
Indian Space research Organisation Chairman G Madavan Nair said on Monday that India would launch a mission to Mars by 2013.Earlier, on August 13, the government sanctioned seed money of Rs 10 crore for the Mars project, to carry out various studies on the experiments to be conducted, the route of the mission and other related details necessary to scale the new frontier.The ISRO has begun the preparations for sending a spacecraft to Mars.
In Mumbai, ONGC Chairman R S Sharma confirmed Mittal's pullout. OVL had anticipated such a move and had a few months back sought Cabinet approval to invest all of the $400 million in the Satpayev on its own in case Mittal walked out.
It has been over a week since 26 women from the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh embarked on a degree programme in a newly started college. But for Piyush C Agrawal who donated half of the $500,000 that the college project cost, the struggle to start the community college looks like a minor odyssey.
The two-week vacuum test to evaluate the thermal design of the spacecraft and to verify its endurance in the harsh environment of space has just been completed at Indian Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, sources in the space agency said.
American watch company Swatch Group is eyeing the Indian film industry with its brand Hamilton, featured in over 300 Hollywood movies.
'Of the people here in Europe who have watched The Story of Film: A New Generation, the most talked-about clip is the one from Ram Leela.'
During the 45-minute meeting, the President posed some searching questions to the 42-year-old astronaut on how she managed to take care of herself during her record 195-day stay in the space.
The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to launch 'Malwa Odyssey', a luxury train, linking its tourist destinations with Bhopal. Better connectivity to tourist spots through train and air, by air taxis and helicopter services will be ensured.
From enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbuster to having a nice body massage in a well equipped spa, railways are planning to introduce a slew of facilities in luxury trains.
Before the tournament the groundwork was put in at England's tranquil, rural St George's Park training centre and once in Russia, they have been ensconced in the quiet lakeside resort of Repino, 45 kilometres outside of St Petersburg.
The lunar orbiter Chang'e-1 blasted off on board a Long March 3A carrier rocket at 6:05 pm (local time), as it began its journey to explore and map the moon's surface. Chang'e-1, named after a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon, is expected to enter the earth-moon transfer orbit on October 31 and arrive in the moon's orbit on November five.
At 88, she is now the oldest person to win the most-coveted prize in world literature.
Two of the seven possible openings have been probed using thermal infrared imaging, which shows that their temperature is pretty constant at any time of day.
Only the flamboyant Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle Corporation, would have thought of a space odyssey as a prize for software developers.
The MCF subsequently issued commands to the satellite to make the earth viewing face to orient towards earth. The calibration of the gyros on board the satellite was also carried out.
The top seeded Swiss beat Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 to win the Australian Open
Monga said the most difficult stretches they hoped to come across will be the icy wastelands of Siberia, Iceland and Greenland.
He was in Mumbai to flag off the Deccan Odyssey, via video conferencing from the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan.
Here's an Indian whose has proved that the sky is not the limit! Dr Amitabha Ghosh was the only Asian to serve on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. At present, he is on the Mars Odyssey Mission and the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
For millions of young Indians Kalpana Chawla was an inspirational figure.
The POCO X2 is a gaming phone that offers good photographic capabilities at a budget price, says Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com.
Sukanya Verma looks at the handful of occasions when Bollywood believed sky was the limit.
An inhospitable climate and the smallest population of any World Cup nation have failed to dampen Iceland's burning desire
Starting on Monday, the country's low-cost Mars mission that is in a rendezvous with the red planet for an extended period will enter the "blackout" phase snapping communication with the satellite.
Arsene Wenger reckoned that leaving his leading marksman Alexis Sanchez on the substitutes' bench had been a "debatable" decision but it was one that appeared to backfire on the Arsenal manager in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday.
We bring you traditional Christmas recipes from homes across India.
Mobile tower radiation reaching us is more than a thousand times weaker than that from the handsets we use and the Indian standards are 10 times more stringent than the global norms recommended by the World Health Organisation, points out T V Ramachandran.
India's Mars orbiter has sent a picture of regional dust storm activities over the northern hemisphere of the red planet, Indian Space Research Organisation said on Monday.
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India's maiden mission to Mars has traversed beyond the sphere of influence of Earth extending about 9,25,000 km in its 10-month long voyage to the red planet.
Joaquin Phoneix (Joker) and Renne Zellweger (Judy) should keep their fingers crossed, says Kumar Abishek.
A teenage Keshavan shot down the luge track on a borrowed sled at Nagano in 1998 and at the age of 36, he will compete in his sixth consecutive Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre.
