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IMAGE: Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance fighters near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 2001. Photograph: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images 'It was a mission undertaken in darkness in every sense -- literally, because Afghanistan had no electricity at that time; and, metaphorically because Delhi...

Tata Motors is in negotiations with Iranian firm Kerman Khodro for setting up an assembly line for 20,000-30,000 cars in Iran. Speaking on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (eastern region), S M R Dolatabadi, economic counselor, Iranian...

British once planned to construct a massive aircraft carrier during World War II… made of ice. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as crazy as it sounds at first glance. Britain was taking a beating from the German ships and submarines and were looking for something to build a ship out of that couldn’t be...

KUALA LUMPUR: The short domestic flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's biggest city, begins with a recital of the prayer for travel. The passengers ─ most of them Muslims ─ cup their hands, as a crew member recites the prayer over the loudspeaker just before take off. Malaysia's Rayani Air took...

If you judge countries purely by their mountainous terrain, Finland is a bit of a loser. Halti, Finland's tallest, is around 1,324 meters, or about 4,340 feet, making it a "one-thousander" as it is over a thousand meters above sea level. That may sound impressive, but bear in mind that the...

Vikram Narayan, MD and Country Manager (India), PayPal The firm. which only caters to cross-border transactions, evaluates options in domestic market transactions California-based online payments firm PayPal is evaluating options to extend its offerings to the Indian domestic market, dominated...

The Hindu The incident took place when the flight was being readied for departure. File Photo In a freak accident, an Air India ground staffer was sucked in by an aircraft engine at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday evening, official sources said. The incident took place at bay No. 28...

'Racist' cartoon mocks India after climate deal December 14, 2015 18:12 IST The cartoon by Bill Leak showing Indians eating solar panel. Photograph: The Australian A cartoon depicting starving Indians breaking solar panels to eat was the response of an Australian daily to the climate deal...

The Hindu Mukund Rajan, Member, Group Executive Council and Brand Custodian, Tata Sons. File photo It has over 100 independent operating companies out of which 29 are publicly-listed. With its listed firms adding over $100 billion to market capitalisation in the last 15 years, the Tata...

Not Just PM Modi, PIB Had Photoshopped Dr. Manmohan Singh's Image as Well On Friday an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, released by the PIB, caused a storm in a teacupas people on social media observed that it had clearly been edited. A statement issued by the PIB later clarified that...

India’s largest watchmaker, Titan, will launch a ‘smartwatch’ — which it has jointly designed and built with global computing major HP Inc — in India and select international markets by December. With this, Titan joins a handful of traditional watch makers such as Tag Heuer, that are venturing...

After launching app based international calling at affordable pricing, Ringo has now introduced low-cost local calling within India. Claiming to be the cheapest in the country, Ringo app offers local calling at 19 paise per minute. It can be used for making calls on mobile phone as well as...

Coca-Cola uses the same groundwater source to meet its production needs - placing it in direct competition with the local community, environmentalists say. (Photo: Reuters) Eighteen village councils in Uttar Pradesh are demanding a local Coca-Cola bottling plant be prohibited from extracting...

Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari (Photo: Reuters) Inland waterways can not only boost the movement of goods and passengers across the country, but will also help in saving about Rs 10,000 crore annually in transporting coal, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday. The minister, who...

What you're looking at in the picture above is the $149 Intel Compute Stick. It's plugged into the HDMI port on the back of an HDTV. It comes loaded with Windows 10, an Atom processor, 2 gigabytes of memory, and 32 GB of storage with a Micro SD slot for expansion. It's a little bigger than a...

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During the 50th anniversary commemoration of the 1965 War, the leadership of two men -- Lal Bahadur Shastri, then India's prime minister, and Y B Chavan, then the defence minister -- have been largely overlooked. Without their wisdom directing the country's battle machine, providing solid...

Royal Enfield opened its first exclusive stores in Madrid, Spain and Paris, France. These stores are a part of the Indian motorcycle maker’s growth strategy to expand exports to Europe. The Royal Enfield store in Madrid These Royal Enfield stores will only be selling the Continental GT...

Tata Motors appears serious about its defence business and it recently gave us the opportunity to sample the Kestrel, an 8×8 wheeled armoured amphibious fighting vehicle which could soon be providing protected mobility and firepower to our troops. Military armoured vehicles first made their...

CHENNAI: In a bid to manufacture Rare Earth Magnet indigenously, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre would be providing its technical expertise in helping Indian Rare Earth Limited set up a plant for production. The plant is being set up at a time when India is facing challenges to import the rare...