The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) above Earth's surface at around 6.56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said.
Just a few days Operation Odyssey Dawn, the collective international action under United Nations authority to protect the Libyan people, has already derailed Gaddafi's bloody assault on rebel-held territories.
Luke Donald, who this season became the first player to win the orders of merit on both sides of the Atlantic, was named the European Tour Golfer of the Year on Thursday.
On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic -- the 269.06-metre-long iconic British luxury passenger liner with 2,224 passengers and crew -- sank, killing over 1,500 people and in course becoming one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th century. A 106 years later, rare and never-seen-before Titanic memorabilia will go on display at The National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall as part of the 'Titanic Stories' to examine tales of survivors, victims and descendants of the catastrophe. And fans of the Oscar award-winning 1997 movie Titanic will also be in for a treat as props from the movie will also be exhibited.
On the eve of the second anniversary of the horrific 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani has said the alleged perpetrators and conspirators of this attack on trial in Pakistan can only be convicted if India provides evidence to the Pakistani authorities.
The online audience will attract only a fraction of the ad rates the one on television gets.
Optimists would say that even a new normal of around 8.0 per cent GDP growth is good, considering global trends.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf believes that he os the panacea for Pakistan if it were to be saved from being a failed state, thanks to the 'inept and pathetic performance' by President Asif Ali Zardari led civilian government in Islamabad.Musharraf said that at the time he left office, the poverty rate in Pakistan, according to World Bank figures, had been halved, from 34 percent to 17 percent. "Which government has done this?" he asked.
Are we seeing a replay of March 2000? What are the similarities and differences and how worried should we be, asks Akash Prakash.
President Obama had been justifiably angered by McChrystal's irreverent remarks which appeared in Rolling Stone. His irreverent remarks caused considerable embarrassment in the Pentagon and the White House. His dismissal was inevitable.
General David Petraeus, Commander of the US Central Command, on Tuesday refuted reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lost confidence in the American and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces to succeed in Afghanistan.
On the coming Labour Day, Virgin Atlantic boss and billionaire Sir Richard Branson will try his hand at a new job - as a stewardess on budget airlines AirAsia's long haul flight.
A state of emergency has been declared in Washington, DC and five states as 30 inches of snow and high winds may shut down up to a third of the country.
US-listed iGate's open offer for buying a little over 20 per cent stake in Indian IT company Patni Computer Systems will begin on April 8 and close on April 27.
According to English daily Dawn, goods manufactured in India are reaching Kabul through Pakistan under the tags of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Kardassis, who quit the airline in 2013, will advise Goyal and senior management on cost-saving and productivity improvement
Srinagar-born Farah Pandith, President Barack Obama's special representative to Muslim communities worldwide, recently made her first trip to India after her high-level appointment. She had 'a great trip,' she told rediff.com, and 'was very humbled to be able to go back.'
Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano has once again started emitting ash, with the latest eruptions casting a 1,600 km-wide ash cloud over the Atlantic.Previous eruptions from Eyjafjallajoekull brought Europe's aviation industry to a grinding halt due to fears about visibility and the possibility of ash entering the engines of airplanes. This had left thousands of travelers stranded across Europe.Authorities are closely monitoring the position and height of the ash cloud.
The first cargo aircraft of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation carrying relief goods for survivors of the devastating floods in Pakistan on Monday arrived at the military's Chaklala air base. In response to a request by the government of Pakistan, the NATO had on Friday decided to provide airlift and sealift for the delivery of aid to Pakistan flood survivors. The NATO started to airlift nearly 500 tonnes of relief supplies from Europe to Pakistan.
Data spanning the years 1951 to 2014 show that temperature and pressure conditions at specific locations in the Arctic region during the pre-monsoon period correlate with the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, points out Charu Bahri.
India's national security strategy needs to be revised periodically since the global and regional geopolitical situation is dynamic, points out Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
United States' special forces carried on multiple secret raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of their secret wars against terror groups in the border regions with Afghanistan, a former North Atlantic Treaty Organisation officer revealed recently, a report in Guardian, UK stated.
The Pakistanis play quid pro quo diplomacy better than India does. They know how to promote their national interests while taking advantage of the needs of the US in the Afghaistan-Pakistan region, notes B Raman.
Shuja Nawaz, arguably the most authoritative expert on the Pakistani military, assesses the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue.
Though the civil aviation sector accounts for only two per cent of the global carbon emission, the industry has conducted sufficient research on the usage of alternative fuels, from the prospective of both environment and cost.
Indians at large harbour a notion that their country is cherrypicking out of the American basket of goodies, but the policymakers in Delhi and the political leadership are well aware that it can only be a pipe dream since a military alliance with a superpower is a profound irrevocable commitment, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The musician is having Jai Ho concerts in 16 world cities.
At least six people were killed and 27 tankers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation were set on fire during an attack by suspected militants on an oil depot close to Islamabad. According to the BBC, dozens of tankers were being filled with fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan when the attack took place on Monday morning."Between 10 to 12 men armed with automatic weapons stormed the depot from two sides. They opened indiscriminate fire on the tankers," said an official.
Diego Maradona said on Sunday he will fly to London next month to study an offer from an English Premier League club, Argentine media reported.
Russia ruled out joining the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's military bloc on Tuesday saying such a move would jeopardise its sovereignty as it asserted that it was capable of ensuring its security.
Ekal Vidyalaya, a charitable trust engaged in one of the largest non-formal, basic education projects for underprivileged children in rural India, raised close to half a million dollars last month during five charity shows in the mid-Atlantic region including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The Pakistan military believes that American and British military will withdraw from Afghanistan -- and when they do, they will need old Taliban friends such as Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin to minimise the influence of India in its Afghan backyard.Although Pakistan's military chiefs have been talking about an 'imminent' assault since last June, all the evidence has pointed to deep reluctance to launch a massive ground offensive.
Five days after a Air France plane -- that was travelling from Brazil to France -- sunk into the Atlantic Ocean (or somewhere else), there is no trace. The wreckage -- initially said to be the Air France debris -- was nothing but sea trash, emerging reports indicate. New reports say there is no evidence of the crashed plane.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will arrive in Washington on Monday to hold talks with the United States administration on a host of crucial issues.Karzai has already been pulled up by Obama over the rampant corruption in the Afghanistan administration. But in a bid to pacify its important ally in the war on terror, Obama has reportedly instructed senior officials to treat Karzai with respect and stop criticising his government.
Springtime always brings in an influx of Taliban fighters to the district of Zhari, in Kandahar province of Afghanistan, where the thick cover provided by the grapevines and the orchards prevent North Atlantic Treaty Organisations's hi-tech thermal imaging cameras to see the insurgents hiding within, a report in the Guardian states.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has announced plans for a large-scale airlift of relief supplies from Europe for the survivors of the devastating floods in Pakistan, as donors pledged more assistance after a slow start of aid efforts.
A top United States General has said Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is probably hiding in the remote mountainous regions of Pakistan, even though no one known where he actually is.
The Taliban has intensified the war strategies for its forces as evident from the latest directive issued by its leader Mullah Omar.
What's next for the free-telephony service, en route from Luxembourg to Redmond. Building IP telephony into phones is cool, but the real impact would be in Miscrosoft's business software.
