Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Venus transits across the sun: A once-in-a-lifetime event

Venus transits across the sun: A once-in-a-lifetime event


Venus transits across the sun: A once-in-a-lifetime event

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 05:50 PM PDT

From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. ...


Rare Venus transit: A once-in-a-lifetime event

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 02:21 PM PDT

Astronomers around the world will train their telescopes on the skies Tuesday to watch Venus pass in front of the Sun, a once-in-a-lifetime event that will not be seen for another 105 years.


Anna Hazare targets PM over coal blocks auction issue

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 01:47 PM PDT

Anna Hazare has criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yet again over the auction of coal blocks during the period he held the coal portfolio. Mr Hazare said there was "room for suspicion" and that...

Briton beats wife for breaking the rules of slave and sex agreement

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:55 PM PDT

A 44-year-old Briton is facing jail after he savagely beat up his wife for breaking the rules of a bizarre slave and sex agreement they had entered into to save their 15-year-old marriage. Scott We...


UK Queen gives thanks to end rapturous jubilee party

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth waved from her Buckingham Palace balcony to the cheering masses on Tuesday and thanked millions of well-wishers at the end of four days of spectacular Diamond Jubilee celebra...


Novak Djokovic edges Tsonga for 26th Slam win in row

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Novak Djokovic saved four match points and came back to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-1 in the French Open quarterfinals Tuesday, moving closer to a fourth consecutive Grand Slam t...


That dot slowly moving across the Sun? It's Venus

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:13 AM PDT

Stargazers around the world are setting up special telescopes and passing out cardboard eclipse glasses to view the once-in-a-lifetime celestial cameo of Venus passing in front of the sun.


US confident of killing top Al Qaeda strategist

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:13 AM PDT

The United States is highly confident that the Al Qaeda's Number two Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, in what an official described on Tuesday as a "major blow" to the g...

French Open: Roger Federer comes back to beat Del Potro in Paris

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Roger Federer came back from a two-set deficit for the seventh time in his career and beat Juan Martin del Potro 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 at the French Open on Tuesday to reach his record-tying 31s...


Congress ally Sharad Pawar endorses Baba Ramdev with awkward hug

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:47 AM PDT

After his meeting with BJP president Nitin Gadkari, yoga icon Baba Ramdev took his campaign against black money and corruption to a key member of the UPA coalition, Sharad Pawar. Unlike Mr Gadkari, th...


India's water bodies dying a slow death

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:06 AM PDT

On World Environment Day, the story of India's water bodies is anything but positive. In Nainital, for the first time in 25 years , the city's only source of water, and a major tourist attraction, the...

US thought Taliban had nuclear bomb in 2009: Book

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 09:54 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama confronted the ultimate security nightmare early in his administration -- the possibility that the Taliban had acquired a nuclear bomb, according to a new book published on T...

Mamata magic works in civic polls, her party puts Congress on notice

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 08:53 AM PDT

The Mamata magic remains intact a year after she powered a historic victory against the Left in West Bengal and became the state's Chief Minister. Her Trinamool Congress has won four of the six civic ...


Disney to stop some junk-food ads on kids' TV, websites

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT

Walt Disney, owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting some junk-food ads on TV programs, radio shows and websites aimed at children, according to sources w...


Muslim girl can marry at 15 if she attains puberty: Delhi Court

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 08:14 AM PDT

Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in he...


Queen's grand carriage procession at final jubilee festivities

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II led a grand carriage procession through London to mark her diamond jubilee on Tuesday but faced the crowning moment of the festivities without her ill husband Prince Philip.Cheering...


Narendra Modi now questions Indira Gandhi's secular credentials

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:25 AM PDT

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is courting controversy again. This time by questioning the secular credentials of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Speaking at a function in Mumbai, Mr Mod...


Top Al Qaeda strategist may have been killed in Pakistan

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:22 AM PDT

If his death is confirmed it would be the biggest blow to Al Qaeda since US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in Pakistan in May 2011.The CIA's drone campaign in Pakistan, stepped...


Morgan Stanley lowers India's growth forecast to 5.8%

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:15 AM PDT

The New York-headquartered bank has cut its growth forecast from the earlier 6.3 per cent for the current fiscal citing a 'bad growth mix'.

16-year-old drowns in school swimming pool

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:10 AM PDT

A schoolgirl from Mumbai's suburb Thane drowned in a swimming pool after she was reportedly stuck in a suction drain. The incident occurred in the swimming pool of the prestigious Cathedral Vidya Scho...


China says foreign embassies should not report on Beijing air quality

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 07:08 AM PDT

China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smogg...


As chief minister's wife, I am your best option: 'Bhabhi' Dimple

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:59 AM PDT

Dressed in a simple green sari, her hair tied back, her husband by her side, Dimple Yadav addressed a huge rally in Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Like any politician about to contest an...


'Bhabhi' Dimple to contest Lok Sabha poll, rates Akhilesh govt 8 out of 10

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:39 AM PDT

Dimple Yadav: Dressed in a simple green sari, her husband by her side, Dimple Yadav addressed a huge rally in Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Like any politician about to contest an elect...


The curious case of Sanjay Joshi posters in Ahmedabad; Narendra Modi targeted

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:38 AM PDT

Despite the BJP's denials about a growing chasm within its ranks in Gujarat, the writing was on the wall on Tuesday morning - in Ahmedabad, posters appeared overnight praising Sanjay Joshi, an old ri...


Delhi showers bring relief from searing heat

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:32 AM PDT

After a hot a uncomfortable day, Delhiites got some relief today as evening showers brought down the temperature. And there is more good news as the weatherman has forecast rains for tomorrow too.

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