Hmar FC Outlast Thadou, Enter Quarters

New Delhi, Dec 9 : A player of Thadou FC vies for the ball during their match against Hmar Fc at the Ambedkar Stadium on Wednesday. Despite having found the net first, Thadou FC were taken to task by experienced campaigners Hmar FC as they clinched a 3-2 win in the 4th North East Tamchon football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Wednesday. With this win, Hmar have stormed in to the quarter-finals....

Away From Home And Hurting

By Patricia Mukhim It took the high decibels of a BJP protest in Parliament against the gangrape of a 30-year-old call centre employee from the North-east for the Delhi police to get its act together. Even then it took all of 300 cops to follow every suspicious trail and track down all serial offenders out on bail before they could lay their hands on three of the rapists who committed...

Bangalore Band Wins Hornbill National Rock Contest

Kohima, Dec 8 : ''Slain,'' a band from Bengaluru, won the 2010 Airtel Hornbill National Rock Contest here and bagged a cash award of Rs 5 lakh. Nine bands were vying for the top award in the grand finale of the contest last night where 21 rock groups from various cities of the country took part. The event was part of the annual week-long Hornbill Festival which concluded here yesterday. ...

CBI Raids Spectrum Raja’s Residence

New Delhi, Dec 8 : The CBI on Wednesday morning carried out raids on the residences of former Telecom Minister A Raja in Delhi, Chennai and Coimbatore along with the residences of four Telecom officials. The raids are being carried out at the residences of former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja's personal secretary R K Chandolia, Telecom (member) K Sridhar and Deputy Director General (DoT)...

Lexicon For Tiwa Community

Linguist hopes to document words, phrases of the language in 2-4 years By Anup Sharma Author-linguist U.V. Jose receives the highest honour of the Tiwa society after the release of the book. Guwahati, Dec 8 : The Tiwa language is set to have its first lexicon. If all goes as planned, the community, which mainly inhabits the hills of Karbi Anglong and the plains of Morigaon and Kamrup districts,...

Hunt For Yeti, The Snowman

Kiwi adventurer leading international Yeti hunt Wellington, Dec 8 : Kiwi adventurer Mike Allsop, who conquered Mt Everest three years ago, is leading an international Yeti hunt. e team is searching for the skull and skeletal hand of what was said to be a mythical 'Abominable Snowman', which were stolen from a monastery in the tiny Nepalese village of Pangboche, in the 1990s, reports The New...

Google Unveils First Chrome OS Computer

Google Inc. is postponing the market debut of the first computers running on its highly anticipated operating system by about six months to give its engineers more time to fine-tune the software. Under a new timetable announced Tuesday, Google expects the first machines powered by the operating system to go on sale in the middle of next year. The company previously promised to have its Chrome operating...

Dolce & Gabbana's Photoshop Flop

From Photoshop Disasters comes a true retouching flop: the advertisement for Dolce & Gabbana's light blue fragrance. Released over the summer, it took us all until the harsh winter months to take a hard look at this gem...and we have no idea what is going on here. Specifically with the lady model's legs. Maybe she's just super flexible. But we're not sure that accounts for whatever's happening...