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Kathmandu:  Two young Indian girls miraculously survived after a small plane they were travelling in crashed near high-altitude Jomsom airport in northern Nepal today. The girls, aged 6 and 9, are among the six survivors who were rescued alive from under the debris of the ill-fated plane. The Dornier aircraft got buried after hitting a mountain peak straddling the airport. "The girls are conscious and out of danger," Indian Embassy spokesperson Apoorva Srivastav told news channels. The third survivor, she said, was a 45-year-old man. It was not clear whether the parents of the young girls survived. The girls...

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Nepal Plane Crash: Indian Survivors Include Two Young Girls

Kathmandu:  Two young Indian girls miraculously survived after a small plane they were travelling in crashed near high-altitude Jomsom airport in northern Nepal today. The girls, aged 6 and 9, are among the six survivors who were rescued alive from under the debris of the ill-fated plane. The Dornier aircraft got buried after hitting a mountain peak straddling the airport. "The girls are conscious and out of danger," Indian Embassy spokesperson Apoorva Srivastav told news channels. The third survivor, she said, was a 45-year-old man. It was not clear whether the parents of the young girls survived. The girls and...

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7-inch tablet 'Attitude Daksha' for Rs 5,399

Thiruvananthapuram: Giving competition to the government's Aakash tablet, Telmoco Development Labs Pvt Ltd has come out with a Tablet PC - Attitude Daksha - a 7-inch tablet variant for Rs 5,399 inclusive of all taxes.Attitude Daksha, touted as the most powerful 7-inch tablet computer for students and professionals, was launched here Tuesday.Technopark Technology Business Incubator (T-TBIC) incubated Telmoco plans to compete in the low-cost tablet PC market where the government-launched Aakash tablet is prominent.It features a capacitive 5 point touch screen, 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, and 512 MB DDR3 RAM.Daksha features a capacitive 5 point...

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Doctors fight to save life of six-legged baby

A baby born in Pakistan's Sindh province has six legs, with a doctor assessing that the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a "serious and time-consuming medical exercise". Birth defects like the Mermaid syndrome, a deformity where the legs are fused together, Craniopagus, a phenomenon where twins are joined at the head, and Dicephalic parapagus, a condition of having two heads, occur rarely but prove challenging to the medical world. Here are some instances of successful treatment of congenital diseas...

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Time's 100 most Influential People in the World

The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry.From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan.The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel Messi.Here's a look at the names that feature in the Time 100 list: 1. Jeremy Lin- Basketball Player, America 2. Christian Marclay- Visual artist and composer,Swiss-America 3. Viola...

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Mumbai Senior Cop Suspended for Raping Colleague

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said tainted police officer Anil Mahabole has been suspended for allegedly raping a woman police inspector. Patil's statement came during the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly session.Mahabole, an assistant commissioner of police, was on Tuesday charged with raping a woman inspector who resides at Kurla in central Mumbai.The victim had approached Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajnesh Seth and Jt CP (Crime) Himanshu Roy last week, alleging that Mahabole raped her several times.She alleged that Mahabole visited her Kurla house and offered her sweets laced with intoxicants,...

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Issue Summons to Facebook Through Email: Court

New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content on Wednesday ordered that summons be served to US-based social networking site, Facebook through email. Meanwhile petitioner's counsel Santosh Pandey moved an application seeking the government should be brought as a plaintiff for proper adjudication of the case as it is related to national issues. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh order that summons to Facebook should be served through email within three days after observing that the firm has not appeared in the court as summons were not served...

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