Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea started their campaign at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finale with a bang, beating top seeds and defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in straight sets in their men’s doubles opening rubber of Group Ashe/Smith. Making their debut as a team, the eighth seeded Indo-Romanian pair took…
Every question asked in a job interview is an opportunity given to you to market yourself, impress your employer and stand amid your other competitors. So to strengthen your edge in the market and increase your chance to get the job, you must never forget to prepare a list of likely questions. Just like what…
Mexican students had an outstanding performance in this year’s edition of the Romanian robotics competition Robochallenge, winning eight medals in total: three gold, two silver and three bronze. The Phoenix team from the Poza Rica Institute of Technology (TecNM) in Veracruz, made up of four mechatronics students, won gold and silver medals in the Mini Sumo…
“My India is in that Imran Khan from Alwar,” said Narendra Modi in Wembley Stadium in London while addressing Indian diaspora and the audience rolled in cheer with pride. Imran Khan, a Sanskrit teacher from a small town Alwar in Rajasthan has all the reasons to get a mention by the Prime Minister as he…
NEW DELHI: Want 1TB storage on Google Drive for free? Google is offering its users a chance to win that. Online search giant Google is updating its Local Guides programme for Google Maps that can get you 1TB storage on Google Drive for 2 years for free. Taking the help of locals to gather information…
The world’s second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest diamond to be discovered in Botswana and the largest find in more than a century. The 3,106-carat…
Astronomers have discovered a new Venus-like rocky exoplanet 39 light years away, which may be cool enough to potentially host an atmosphere. If it does, it is close enough that we could study that atmosphere in detail with the Hubble Space Telescope and future observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope, researchers said. “Our ultimate goal…
Voting began on Friday in New Zealand’s referendum on a potential replacement for their national flag. New Zealanders have just under a month to send in a postal ballot on which of five potential new flags they prefer. A second vote in 2016 will ask whether they want to replace the existing flag, which features…
Google Maps’ offline feature with turn-by-turn directions is now available in India. Earlier while you could save a map offline, it would not give the exact directions to a place in the offline mode. In a press statement Google said, that users can now get driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information…
NEW DELHI: India will overtake the US as the second-largest Internet user base in the world by next month, behind only China, which has more than 600 million subscribers. The number of Internet users in India is expected to reach 402 million by December, a growth of 49 per cent over last year, according to…
