Bengaluru: Thirty-two years after the project was sanctioned, the first of the indigenously-built Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) was finally handed over to the Indian Air Force (IAF) today.   Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) handed over the Tejas Series Production-1 (LCA-SP1) to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Air Chief Marshal Anup Raha here in a quiet ceremony that kept the media persons out.   The aircraft will now be finally […]

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is taking immediate action to save caribou herds under threat from wolf predation in two separate and targeted actions: one in the South Selkirk Mountains and the other in the South Peace, according to a press release. The South Selkirk herd is at high risk of local extinction. The population has declined from 46 caribou in 2009 to 27 in 2012, […]

 The staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. offer an in-depth understanding of what’s essential to any business plan, what’s appropriate for your venture, and what it takes to ensure success. In this edited excerpt, the authors offer a list of some non-standard items you may want to include with your business plan. A business plan is a story, the narrative of your enterprise, and you want to maintain a certain amount […]

BENGALURU: Rishad Premji, the eldest son of Wipro’s billionaire chairman Azim Premji, could assume the vice-chairman’s position in the coming months, sources close to the company said. Rishad, currently the chief strategy officer of the $7.3-billion IT company, is expected to join the board when executive director and CFO Suresh Senapaty retires from the company in March.   This clearly indicates that Rishad is being steered to represent the interests […]

  The upcoming Bollywood movie ‘Rahasya’ is out with it’s gripping trailer. The section of realistic movies has been doing pretty well lately in the Bollywood industry and here is another movie to bring out some hidden truth about a real life incident. The film stars some of the finest actors like Kay Kay Menon, Tisca Chopra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mita Vashisht and Ashwini Kalsekar. Actor Kay Kay Menon is seen […]

This Tackk Will Change Your Outlook on Life “I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” A boy rescues his sister from underneath the rubble of their home in Syria Toshimana, an apprentice Geisha in Kyoto Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family against ISIS A mother and her 3 year-old daughter, who were attacked with acid […]

London: The al Qaeda network is plotting a terrorist strike in Britain to inflict mass casualties similar to the newsroom massacre at a satirical French weekly that killed 12 people, Britain’s spy chief has warned. Andrew Parker, the Director General of MI5 Security Service, warned that the threat of a “mass casualty attack” was growing and that intelligence pointed to the existence of specific plots. He said while British police […]

BEIJING: A group of Chinese businessmen allegedly gave $300,000 to school students in Shaanxi province to procure virgin girls, whom the men then offered to officials as ‘gifts’. Several schoolgirls were molested and tortured, local officials said.   In a curious pyramid scheme, girl students of 11th grade were asked to lure and torture virgin girls of 10th grade to force them to have sex with officials. Six of the […]

  PARIS: An 18-year-old implicated alongside two brothers in the bloody attack against a satirical weekly in Paris, in which 12 people were killed, has surrendered to police, according to a source close to the case. “Hamyd Mourad handed himself in to police… on Wednesday at 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) after seeing his name circulating on social media,” the source told AFP. “He has been arrested and taken into custody,” […]

We always complain about how expensive it is to even go abroad, let buy anything there. The States, the UK and a couple of other places have come to symbolise the world for us. While it’s true that our currency is pretty weak, there’s no denying that there are places you can go to and things you can see with our own desi rupaiya that will make you feel like […]