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New Delhi: India will Monday send its first expedition to the South Pole to study the changes in climate patterns that have taken place in Antarctica over the last thousand of years. Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan will flag off the expedition Monday. Rasik Ravindra, 62, director of the National Centre for... 

London: Move aside the Glenn McGraths and Muttiah Muralitharans, the only bowler who has tested Sachin Tendulkar to an extent that the Indian batting icon “didn’t know what to do” while facing him was stunningly the late Hansie Cronje! The ex-South African captain, who died in a plane crash after being banned for match-fixing,... 

New Delhi: Finding suitable design solutions, getting engineering package right and managing everything within stringiest cost parameters were some of the challenges the Nano team faced while coming up with the Rs 1 lakh car but Ratan Tata did not want the vehicle to be built like stitching a shirt around a button, says a new... 

Mumbai: Conglomerate Reliance Industries, which announced plans this year to spend USD3.4 billion on three U.S. shale gas joint ventures, is in no hurry to forge more such partnerships for now, a senior company official said. Total spending on the three U.S. shale gas projects by Reliance, India’s most valuable listed... 

Mumbai: She came, she saw and she conquered! Bollywood’s reigning queen Katrina Kaif has come full circle. Change is what the lass believes is constant. After playing the same kind of role again and again, the actress wants to try out something new. Portraying roles which are often etched on the lines of same old characters... 

Bangalore: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar walked along with specially-abled children for fashion designer Ramesh Dembla here over the weekend. The fashion show was part of the campaign titled “Be a Fan of Dignity, 2010”. The signature campaign was initiated as part of a larger campaign to eradicate the use of the word retarded.... 

Mumbai: Still considered a newcomer in Bollywood, actress Asin is taking cautious steps towards her career in Tinsel Town. Buzz has it that Asin has declined Salman Khan’s offer to play lead in the Hindi remake of Malayalam blockbuster ‘Bodyguard’. According to the reports, Salman Khan saw glimpses of film ‘Kavalan’,... 

New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today paid homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 26th death anniversary at her samadhi at ‘Shakti Shthal’ here. Vice President M Hamid Ansari, Congress president and NAC Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi... 

New Delhi: What is that Indian gastronomic delight that will tickle the taste buds of the world’s most powerful man? The chefs of Bukhara restaurant here are tightlipped as they cook up a dish to be named after US President Barack Obama – but it sure promises to be ‘finger-licking’ good. Obama, who will... 

Sporting Saturday can’t get better than this. India’s generation of sportstars will descend at the MMRDA Grounds in Bandra Kurla Complex on Saturday to attend the Sahara India Sports Awards, one of the biggest honour for Indian sportsperson. From PT Usha to Saina Nehwal, Sunil Gavaskar to Sachin Tendulkar, Nandan Bal to...