Year: 2015

LONDON: Astronomers have detected a basic ingredient of life in an infant star system. The discovery shows that Earth is ...

TEHRAN: Iran says it is expecting American shipping lines to visit its ports once the economic sanctions against it are ...

DUBAI: Dubai currently imports about 11 thousand tonnes of fruits and vegetables per day, of which 30% to 40% are ...

WASHINGTON: In a bid to make one of the biggest social media site more user family, Twitter has introduced a ...

LONDON: MIT researchers have developed a new ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times stronger and efficient than its previous ...

FRANCE: Archaeologists have excavated seven tombs holding at least 171 mummies in the Cotahuasi Valley in Peru, and there are ...

KABUL: International smuggling groups seem to be using poor Afghans to transmit gold into India, taking a cue from ISI's ...

MOSCOW: Bulgarian customs have thwarted an attempt to smuggle dollar notes and some of them suspected to be fake. Customs ...

NEW YORK: Researchers at Stanford have made aluminium battery.  Compared with today's lithium-ion options, the researchers' aluminium-ion batteries are cheaper, ...

AMRITSAR: Illegal exchange of goods between from India into Pakistan under the garb of barter trade in Jammu and Kashmir ...

EUROPE: Western Canada’s glaciers are shrinking rapidly and could be gone entirely by the end of the 21st century, climate ...

MANGALORE: Indian Customs arrested a man and seized gold in the form of two cylindrical rod shaped objects weighing 583.300 ...

KARACHI: Cement despatches to local markets have increased by 8.43 per cent to 20.34 million tonnes during July-March 2014-15 as ...

WASHINGTON: They may not be “Star Trek”-type extraterrestrials, but we may be close to finding evidence of alien life, a ...

MANILA: Philippines customs of bureau (BOC) will be auctioned around 21,460 sacks of smuggled rice worth over P22 million at ...

NEW DELHI: Indian Customs seized lorry that was used in sand smuggling near Omalur. On a tip off, a police ...

PERTH: Astronomers have spotted Einstein’s ring in distant galaxy with the most powerful ground based observatory in the world. Atacama ...

CAIRO: Egyptian Customs arrested a Libyan national at Sallum border crossing, near Egypt’s Western border with Libya, who was trying ...

NEW YORK: The North American Space Agency has selected three proposals from American companies for the development of ultra-lightweight (ULW) ...

MEXICO: A new study suggests that less draconian restrictions could still put many troubled reefs on the road to recovery. ...