German police find 'highly explosive' materials in terror-plot manhunt

The German city of Chemnitz was in lockdown on Saturday after armed police launched a huge manhunt for a Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack, as the country grapples with a weakened sense of......

The 10 most expensive taxi rides around the world

Mumbai auto rickshaw and taxi fares have once again been hiked after the high court rejected the plea of the Mumbai Grahak Panchayat to stall it. The 38,000 odd black and yellow taxis and 1.05 lakh......

Karplus, Levitt, Warshel win 2013 Nobel Chemistry Prize

Three molecular chemists -- Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel -- were on Wednesday awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising computer simulations that are used to......

Higgs and Englert share 2013 Nobel physics prize

François Englert and Peter W Higgs were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 on Tuesday for the theory of how particles acquire mass. They were awarded “for the theoretical......

Post devaluation, Quikr is no longer a unicorn

Major shareholder Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm, devalued Quikr by 45%, referring to the exaggerated revenue resulting from fraudulent transactions that rocked the company. Quikr is now......

Ericsson exits mobile handset JV Sony Ericsson

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson on Thursday announced the completion of disinvestment of its entire stake in 50:50 mobile handset joint venture Sony Ericsson to the Japanese Sony Corporation.Sony......

2 Americans, 1 Brit share 2010 Economics Nobel

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2010 to Peter A. Diamond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,......

Infosys invests Rs 630 mn in overseas subsidiaries

Infosys Technologies, has incurred a capital expenditure of Rs 63 crore (Rs 630 million) in its three loss-making subsidiaries in China, Mexico and the US, the company said in its annual report.......

Ranveer Looks Tired And Quite Unsexy

Far from outraging any woman's sensibility or sense of modesty, Ranveer looks like he could do with a hot meal and a hug, notes Deepa Gahlot. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ranveer Singh/Instagram It's......