I kept it simple: Ojha
August 31st, 2012 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 31 (IANS) Bowling in the right areas and keeping it simple paid rich dividends, said left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha who came away with four wickets against New ... Read more...
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Tunnel incident against India-Pakistan CBMs
August 2nd, 2012 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Aug 2 (IANS) Pakistan was undermining confidence building measures by indulging in activities like digging a 400-metre cross-border tunnel in Samba sector for pushing terrorists to the Indian side, ... Read more...
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Marussia test driver loses eye after crash
July 5th, 2012 - 5:37 am ICT by IANS
London, July 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Marussia test driver Maria deVillota has lost her right eye after a crash while testing its Formula One car, the team said Wednesday.De Villota was ... Read more...
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F1 test driver Maria battling for life after crash
July 3rd, 2012 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Formula One test driver Maria de Villota has sustained life-threatening injuries in a crash during testing in Cambridgeshire, the Marussia team and local ambulance services ... Read more...
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Darkness in US amid unrelenting heat
July 3rd, 2012 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
Washington, July 3 (IANS) Three days after a ferocious summer storm, about 1.7 million people, from the capital city of Washington through 10 states from Indiana to Delaware, are still ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Stargazers wait to see Mars
March 3rd, 2012 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 3 (IANS) People in the Northern Hemisphere might be able to see the Mars with their naked eyes this weekend when it is at its closest to Earth ... Read more...
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Spacious workplaces boost employees’ creativity
January 25th, 2012 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 25 (IANS) Companies expecting "out of the box ideas" from employees should first pay attention to the kind of workplace they are providing them, as a study has ... Read more...
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Total lunar eclipse Dec 10
December 6th, 2011 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 6 (IANS) Sky gazers are all set to witness a celestial event involving the Moon, the Earth and the Sun as the second total lunar eclipse of the ... Read more...
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Kate Middleton’s teeth deliberately unaligned
November 27th, 2011 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 27 (IANS) Kate Middleton's teeth have been deliberately made "not too perfect" which helped her in giving a "natural, healthy smile, but not an artificial one", a French ... Read more...
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Force India pick Max Chilton for Abu Dhabi young driver test
November 8th, 2011 - 5:14 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Nov 8 (IANS) Sahara Force India Tuesday announced that Briton Max Chilton will test for them at the young driver test scheduled here after the Formula One Abu ... Read more...
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Pakistan has suffered a lot after 9/11: Daily
September 11th, 2011 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 11 (IANS) Pakistan has suffered greatly after 9/11 as the war on terror has cost the country over 35,000 citizens, said a leading daily Sunday.An editorial in the ... Read more...
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Fruit Bats use internal maps to navigate
August 17th, 2011 - 7:10 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Jerusalem, Aug 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified that the Egyptian fruit bats are naturally equipped with internal compass and visual maps that makes it possible ... Read more...
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Armaan picks up two points at Brands
July 24th, 2011 - 12:59 am ICT by IANS
London, July 23 (IANS) India's Armaan Ebrahim scored two points with a ninth place finish in the ninth round of the FIA Formula 2 Championship at the Brands Hatch circuit ... Read more...
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Force India drawing inspiration from last year’s race at Valencia
June 21st, 2011 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
Valencia, June 21 (IANS) Force India will look to put behind the disappointment of the Montreal race and secure a top ten finish at the Formula One Grand Prix of ... Read more...
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Rapper Flo Rida arrested for DUI
June 10th, 2011 - 12:22 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Miami, June 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Rapper Flo Rida has been arrested on suspicion of driving under influence. MTV reports that Flo was arrested after the police at Miami Beach realized that he ... Read more...
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Force India will rely on straight-line speed at Canadian GP
June 6th, 2011 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS
Montreal, June 6 (IANS) Force India drivers will look to make the optimum use of the straight-line speed of their cars and finish among the points in the Formula One ... Read more...
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India to witness darkest lunar eclipse June 15
June 3rd, 2011 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 3 (IANS) The darkest total lunar eclipse of this century, which will be visible throughout India, will occur June 15, an official of the Nehru Centre said here ... Read more...
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Nearly 4 in 10 Americans believe natural disasters are ’sign of God’: Poll
March 25th, 2011 - 5:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): A recent poll conducted after the earthquake-cum-tsunami hit Japan has found that nearly 40 percent of Americans believe natural disasters are a sign of God.Fox News quoted ... Read more...
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Now, a ‘molecular robot’ that can be programmed to follow instructions
March 10th, 2011 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 10 (ANI): A programmable 'molecular robot', a sub-microscopic molecular machine made of synthetic DNA that moves between track locations separated by 6nm, has been developed by researchers.The robot, a ... Read more...
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Study links happy hour to pub violence
March 5th, 2011 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): A new study has found that pub violence is linked to happy hour-style drinking promotions.The findings from Cardiff University also show that pub staff themselves need to do ... Read more...
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Proposed US defence radar on Czech soil was ‘blind’ to long-range missiles: Wikileaks
February 4th, 2011 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): The United States' plans to build a missile defence system on Czech soil experienced troubles when defence chiefs discovered that the proposed radar lacked the ability to ... Read more...
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Obama’s prayer: ‘Lord, have that skirt get longer’
February 4th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Like any other father of a growing daughter, Barack Obama too has to sometimes summon the help of God. In fact, he says being president ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Epic ocean-spanning journeys of gigantic leatherback turtles revealed
January 5th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Using satellite tracking, a groundbreaking research has revealed the epic ocean-spanning journeys of the gigantic leatherback turtle in the South Atlantic.Experts at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation ... Read more...
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Designer turns escalator into ‘Sushi-lator’
December 27th, 2010 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 27 (IANS) The escalator has travelled either up or down and in a straight line for more than a century that it has been in use. But a revolutionary new ... Read more...
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Dining out ‘ups diabetes risk’
November 21st, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Nov 21 (ANI): Researchers has claimed that corporate lunches and dinners at restaurants dishing up rich, fatty foods, coupled with sedentary working lives are responsible for an alarming rise of diabetes ... Read more...
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Star-Trek-style ’space-time invisibility cloak’ comes a step closer
November 16th, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): A person moving from one place to another without being detected may sound more like sc-fi, but metamaterials can make this possible.Developed by the researchers from Imperial College ... Read more...
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Software to stop you writing e-mails when drunk
November 12th, 2010 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 12 (IANS) A new software can now stop you writing e-mails or posting messages when you are drunk.The Social Media Sobriety Test poses a series of simple problems that ... Read more...
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New web app stops you from tweeting, Facebooking if you are too drunk!
November 12th, 2010 - 12:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 12 (ANI): Many of us have some or the other time, woken up to the horrible realization of having posted some terrible message on Twitter or a post on ... Read more...
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Brit granny grows ‘world’s longest cucumber’
September 20th, 2010 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 20 (ANI): A British grandmother may enter record books for growing the world's longest cucumber.Clare Pearce's record breaking cucumber reached at least 47in in a straight line from top to ... Read more...
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1 in 3 men feel unsafe when their partners drive: UK study
July 20th, 2010 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 20 (ANI): A new UK study has found that one in three men do not feel safe when their partners are driving.The study, which was conducted among 3000 men by ... Read more...
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Kirstie Alley’s new weight-loss programme linked to Scientology
March 17th, 2010 - 10:08 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
Mar 17 (Pen Men at Work): Kirstie Alley has given as well as she has got at news that her fresh weight-loss syllabus will subsidize the controversial knowledge of Scientology. ... Read more...
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How a baseball outfielder gets to the right place at the right time to catch a fly ball
January 22nd, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): New research conducted at Brown University has tried to explain how a baseball outfielder manages to run to the right place at the right time to catch a ... Read more...
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Blue Moon Rumors Dismissed By Astronomers
December 29th, 2009 - 9:48 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Dec.29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The recent hullabaloo about the possibility of a Blue moon on New Year's eve has turned out to be a damp squib. It is not going to ... Read more...
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Roddick reports knee injury recovery ahead of schedule
November 25th, 2009 - 3:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 25 (DPA) Andy Roddick said Tuesday that the knee injury which kept him from taking his place in this week's ATP World Tour Finals will be ready for an ... Read more...
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Daredevils bounce back with clinical win over Wayamba
October 12th, 2009 - 1:24 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Glenn McGrath showed his old mastery with the ball while Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik struck explosive half centuries to breathe life into Delhi Daredevils' Champions ... Read more...
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