Hosts Bangladesh crawled into the main draw of the World Twenty20 despite an embarrassing two-wicket defeat by Hong Kong in their final qualifying match in Chittagong on Thursday. Skittled out for a paltry 108 in 16.3 overs, Bangladesh risked losing the super 10 stage berth to Nepal if Hong Continue Reading
Month: March 2014
India’s plan to double gas prices from April threatens to hit government efforts to cut its fiscal deficit, as higher production costs for the country’s most widely used fertiliser force authorities to raise either farm or food subsidies. The unwanted side-effect highlights the Continue Reading
Hyderabad, India, 12 March 2014 – Embraer Executive Jets has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Air Works Pvt Ltd to provide full maintenance support to the Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 customers in India. This agreement comes ahead of the Legacy 500 midsize jet’s entry into service Continue Reading
Australian search aircraft are investigating two objects spotted by satellite floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday. “I can confirm we have a new lead,” Continue Reading
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality approved building plans on Wednesday for 184 new homes in two Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing anger from Palestinians engaged in faltering statehood talks. A municipality spokeswoman said the local planning committee had approved Continue Reading
He’s pure green evil and saves for a big mole on the side of his face, he’s a dead ringer for genteel Kermit the Frog. “Constantine, bad guy,” he introduces himself in his Russian accent, wearing a face that hardly knows how to grin. The newest member of the Muppets Continue Reading
In a meeting between Iran and the world powers over the future of a planned Iranian nuclear reactor that could yield plutonium for bombs, no solutions were reached. The United States warned that much effort will be needed to put in to overcome the differences when both sides reconvene in April. Continue Reading
Nearly about a century ago, Albert Einstein made a predication about ripples called gravitational waves, an achievement in one of the greatest triumphs of the human intellect giving an understanding about how the universe began and evolved into the cornucopia of galaxies and stars, nebulae and Continue Reading
In order to resolve the nuclear disputes, Iran and six of the world powers: the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia, will be in discussion in Vienna on Tuesday. The Western officials are hoping that the challenge will not be made even more difficult by the Ukraine crisis. Continue Reading
Recycling mixed with modernity is always in and the concept has been taken to a whole new level as a design company turned discarded plastic cups and bottles into pieces of art on the spot with Mobile Fab, an oridinary bike kitted out with a computer and 3D printer. As it is decked out with Continue Reading