Nasa has sent a spacecraft chasing after an unexplored asteroid, in the hope that it might one day keep us from being destroyed. The Osiris-Rex robotic hunter has blasted off to the asteroid Bennu. When it gets there it will scoop up bits of ancient space rock - which could eventually tell us not just about where we came from but whether there is life elsewhere as well ... It might also help them learn more about what to do if one is....
Tensions flare between the CIA and the Senate in the fight to release the report on torture – leading the agency to spy on its own legislative overseers. by Spencer Ackerman in Washington. Tensions flare between the CIA and the Senate in the fight to release the report on torture – leading the agency to spy on its own legislative overseers. by Spencer Ackerman in Washington ... One man's fight to reveal. the CIA's torture secrets ... "> ... "> ... Next....
The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She died from complications of old age, he said. Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered ...Misha Friedman. ....
Close to 2 million people from around the world have begun performing the rites of the Islamic hajj pilgrimage, entering into a state of physical and spiritual purity and circling the cube-shaped Kaaba with their palms facing upward in supplication and prayer. Notably absent this year are Iranian pilgrims ... 9, 2016. Muslim pilgrims have begun arriving at the holiest sites in Islam ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia ... ....
The experts including advocate R K Hasija and former commissioner, central excise & service tax S JSingh addressed the businessmen and gave their view on the subject and responded to their queries. Avtar Singh, president and UpkarSingh Ahuja, general secretary of the association, said there is widespread consensus in economic and business circles ......
The chess champs of U - 14 category were Naman Singh, Ekam Jot, Anmolpreet Singh and Vineet Bhola. In the U - 17 category Prabhpunit Singh, Manvir Singh, Tanvir Singh, Gurvir Singh, Ujjwal and Yuvraj Walia respectively won ... and Ridhima, in the U - 14 boys, Naman Singh and Vineet Bhola, in the U - 17 boys Gurvir Singh and Tanvir Singh....
The accused were identified as Devinder Singh of Bambiha village, Avtar Singh of Dosanjh village both in Moga (both sharp shooters), Dharminder Singh alias Gugni of Meherban (accused in murder case housed in CentralJail) of Meherban, Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi of Natt village in Dehlon, Karamveer Singh of Bahadurke and Jassi of Hawas (brother of gangster Kala Hawas), Navreet Cheema and Mandeep Bawa of Meherban and Kirpal Singh....
In another major setback to AAP, as many as 80 office-bearers of Khadoor Sahib zone resigned en masse in support of AAP's former Punjab convener SuchhaSingh Chhotepur, who is on 'Punjab Parivartan Yatra' after being sacked by the party ...Later talking to TOI, AAP's former Khadoor Sahib zonal in charge IqbalSingh Bhagowalia said, "We resigned en ......
PunjabCongress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday ruled out the possibility of an alliance for the 2017 elections, saying that his party was firmly placed to win the polls with a massive majority ... Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh said he would not take a single minute in putting behind bars chief minister Parkash SinghBadal, his ......
ASI Angrej Singh and head constable SohanSingh were arrested for trying to pay a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to the Kotkapura station house officer (SHO) to dilute the case. Kotkapura resident Sohan Singh had on April 16, 2015 filed a complaint that some ......
Before 2017 assembly elections, the opposition has decided to bring a chargesheet against the Congress government headed by chief minister Virbhadra Singh. BJP since long has been levelling corruption charges on the government and now all these allegations are going to find mention in the document for which state BJP president SatpalSingh Satti has formed a "chargesheet committee"....
Continuing with their ongoing protest against the Akalgarh market trust, shopkeepers on Saturday prayed for the "better health" of the market's self-claimed president former minister HiraSingh Gabria ...Singh Gabria....
The body of KashmirSingh was found in room number 12 of Amritsar bus stand on Friday night by his son Inderjit Singh, who lodged a complaint with police ... one Ranjit Singh, Bhatti, and Bau at Division A police station....
Unionhome minister Rajnath Singh will travel to Hungary as part of a massive programme to be undertaken by the NDA government to reach out to 68 countries not visited by any minister of the Modi government. Apart from Singh, law minister Ravi......
The electoral battlefield of Punjab got a little more complicated with cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu launching his outfit Awaaz-e-Punjab ... "Kaale badal (dark clouds, punning on the surname of CM Parkash SinghBadal) have shadowed Punjab and people are keen to see sunlight." ... SukhbirSingh Badal, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister ... The electoral scene has changed with Navjot Singh Sidhu launching his new outfit....
As Aam AadmiParty (AAP) representative AdvocateKashmirSingh Malhi also raised the issue, a senior officer remarked that their party was telling voters to accept money, but to vote according to their own volition. Punjab chief electoral officer V KSingh was also present in the meeting....
Aam AadmiParty (AAP) activist Hardeep Singh, who was booked for 'attempt to rape', continued to evade arrest by the Moonak police of Sangrur district, even as seven police teams had been pressed into service for tracing him ... He was shown closeted with AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal and senior leaders, including the party's Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann, and others....