In his celebrated treatise, the Kautilya Arthashastra, Chanakya has delved at length on why and how a conqueror should go to war. “To neutralise the enemy-in-the-rear, to help an ally or to subdue a small state, and the ultimate objective is to destroy the natural enemy who is an obstacle to the conqueror’s ambition,” he says. Cut to the present, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the conqueror with an […]
A transport plane of the Indian Air Force with 29 people on board went missing while flying from Chennai to Port Blair on Friday, the military said. The Russian-made AN-32 aircraft, which is believed to have disappeared over the Bay of Bengal, took off at 8.30am from Tambaram in Chennai. The last contact with it was made at 9:16am, about 151 nautical miles east of Chennai. The aircraft was to […]
Though he is not present among us in physical form, Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology, which many conveniently tend to ignore, is still relevant today. From his pictures hanging on the walls of government offices, statues at prominent places to his valuable watermark on Indian currency, Gandhi is all around us. But, what would happen if he plans to suddenly disappear from our lives one day. This hilarious take on Gandhi’s disappearance […]
TORONTO: A 22-year-old Indo-Canadian has been missing and police believe he may have been killed and his body encased in concrete slab and dumped or buried on some rural property in the country’s southern Ontario. Shawn Kapadia from Mississauga may have been killed on July 5 and investigators believe his body was moved from Toronto to a home on O’Reilly’s Road South in Ontario. He was reported missing by his […]
How many times have you misplaced your phone or had it go missing? The mere thought of having your photos, memos, contacts and other personal information gone forever (or in someone else’s hands) is enough to make the average person sick with anxiety. For one man and his wife, BlackBerry Protect recently proved invaluable in reuniting them with their missing phone. Just Like Anyone Else Andrew and Teresa Schito are […]
The search is on for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control Sunday. Before communication was lost, AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 asked to deviate from its planned flight route — from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore — because of weather conditions, AirAsia said in a statement. There was conflicting information about when exactly Flight 8501 went missing. AirAsia said contact was […]
Kolkatta: Mountaineer Chhanda Gayen, the second civilian woman from West Bengal to scale Mount Everest, has gone missing after she was caught in an avalanche on the Kanchenjunga peak, a state minister said on Wednesday. The West Bengal government has swung into action to rescue the missing woman, Housing Minister Arup Biswas said in Kolkata. “Gayen and two of her Sherpas who had gone on an expedition to Kanchenjunga have gone […]
A new study finds that if temperatures rise and more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, it will reduce the total amount of water in rivers It is a surprising observation. One might expect the timing of water flow to change but not the overall volume. But this is precisely what scientists discovered when they examined the histories of 420 catchment basins in the US spanning the period 1948-2001. […]
Within touching distance of her family just hours before they were due to fly back to India. But moments later this 17-year-old girl vanished in the middle of Oxford Street… and has not been seen since Emaan Shah was out shopping with her parents when she went missing The family have been left ‘frantic with worry’ since disappearance on Monday The family were on holiday in the UK and were […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report that 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh’s $20 billion-a-year garment industry. Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hassan Suhrawardy, the commander of the area’s army […]
