Recent Views 6 Videos capture the final moments of a Bahamas-bound Learjet 60 before it crashed and burst into flames near a busy Florida roadway, killing all nine aboard. Videos recorded by motorists captured the moment a business jet carrying nine people plunged from the sky and exploded into a fireball near a busy roadway…
Recent Views 9 Israel Aerospace Industries is reportedly close to securing an $905.7 million deal to convert six Boeing 767 jets into refuelling tankers for the Indian Air Force, with HAL likely to be its Indian partner NEW DELHI: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is on the verge of winning a massive $905.7 million (approx Rs…
Recent Views 10 India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir with Arshdeep Singh. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India head coach Gautam Gambhir has identified the inexperienced bowling attack as the biggest challenge facing the visitors in the upcoming five-match ODI series against New Zealand, beginning November 4. With Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya unavailable, India will have…
Recent Views 11 Cash doesn’t cross Myanmar border, payments made in kind: ED NEW DELHI: International illicit drug syndicates operating out of the Golden Triangle of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos have turned to age-old barter trade, under which drugs like heroin and methamphetamine are smuggled into India through the porous borders of Northeastern states and…
Recent Views 7 Sikh riot survivors and BJP leaders protest Congress’s decision to hold the INDIA bloc rally on the 42nd anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh killings NEW DELHI: Survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh killings and Sikh organisations Sunday questioned Congress’s decision to hold the INDIA bloc rally on Nov 1, the 42nd anniversary of…
Recent Views 9 Image sourced from Christies From every curve to every carving, such is the intricacy of this 12th-century Manjushri sculpture from Nepal. Standing nearly a metre tall, this gilded copper figure of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom, is a remarkable example of the artistic excellence of the Kathmandu Valley. Created by Newar…
Recent Views 12 For almost three decades, dark energy has been the standard explanation for why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Now, a team of mathematicians is challenging this widely accepted theory. The mathematicians at the University of California, Davis, argue that the answer may already lie within Einstein’s own equations and…
Recent Views 15 Emergency crews respond after a Learjet 60 crashed into a South Florida neighbourhood, killing all nine people on board All nine people aboard a business jet were killed after it crashed into a South Florida neighbourhood on Sunday, US transportation secretary Sean Duffy said.The Learjet 60, which departed from Austin, Texas, was…
Recent Views 9 CJI Surya Kant calls for more transparent and predictable case listings, stressing that timely court intervention can make the difference between justice and injustice. NEW DELHI: Flagging the importance of timely intervention by courts in crucial matters, CJI Surya Kant said the difference between justice and injustice was not in the final…
Recent Views 7 PM Narendra Modi cites World Bank data showing India’s extreme poverty rate fell 90% to 2.6% between 2011 and 2023, with nearly 50 crore people lifted out of extreme poverty. NEW DELHI: India has recorded one of the fastest poverty declines in the world, with the extreme poverty rate in the country…
