New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Delhi Police Friday arrested a security guard for stealing laptops from a warehouse where he worked, a police official said Friday.
Neeraj Kumar Verma was arrested from New Delhi district and nine stolen laptops were recovered from his possession.
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Indian Internet shoppers spent on an average $2,086 (Rs.97,200) in the past 12 months, according to the Visa e-Commerce Consumer Monitor survey report released Friday.
“Indian respondents spent an average of $2,086 in the past 12 months. Respondents from Asia Pacific spent an average of $2,526 during the same period,” the Visa survey said.
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Unesco has evinced interest in jointly certifying select programmes being offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Armoogum Parsuramen, director of Unesco’s South Asia office, said the UN arm would, for starters, look at certifying IGNOU’s master’s course in journalism and communications which is adapted from the model journalism curriculum circulated by Unesco last year.
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Artistic memory is spreading itself beyond the brain, says noted Mumbai-based poet, art critic and curator Ranjit Hoskote, whose show “Retrieval Systems” in the capital, featuring five leading contemporary artists, deals with the “nature of memory and how it preoccupies artists”.
“I tried to look into memory as a resource and how artists are parking it in external tools like computers, archives and sub-cultures — which also serve as a memory database by documenting the evolution of life and civilisation — and thereby restoring many lost memories in the process,” Hoskote told IANS.
Monte Carlo, Nov 20 (IANS/AKI) Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi will determine the future of his estimated 8 billion euro fortune, his eldest son Piersilvio said Thursday.
Piersilvio Berlusconi refused to be drawn on how his 73-year-old father would divide his fortune between the five children from his two marriages.
Cape Canaveral (Florida), Nov 20 (DPA) Two US astronauts left the safety of the International Space Station Thursday to install spare parts that will help it continue running smoothly in the future.
Space shuttle Atlantis crew members Michael Foreman and Robert Satcher spent six hours and 37 minutes on the spacewalk.
Wiesbaden (Germany)/Washington, Nov 20 (DPA) Police in 24 nations raided illegal internet pharmacies this week, intercepted parcels at mail depots and seized stocks of illicit medicines, German police and US officials said.
The raids, which began Monday, were aimed at confiscating counterfeit drugs, medicines sold without prescriptions and so-called lifestyle drugs such as anabolic steroids, growth hormones and slimming pills.
Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) The arrests of David Coleman Headley and his associate Tawwahur Hussain Rana – the two Chicago men accused of planning a new attack in India – have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, according to the New York Times citing unnamed officials.
In India, where the two men are said to have wanted to attack the country’s National Defence College, investigators are trying to determine whether the two men played a role in attacks a year ago in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Distance education, via cell phones and other technology geared to provide open access to education, could address the dearth of teachers plaguing the Indian education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
“There is a need for distance education (in India) because conventional teaching methods cannot meet the challenges of our young population,” Sibal said.
New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS)Investigators probing David Coleman Headley’s links in India said they were close to nailing the connection between American terror suspect and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana with the larger module that had planned and executed the 26/11 strikes.
Top sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that has taken over the case said it had established that Headley and Rana were in touch with the same Pakistan-based handlers who gave directions to the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai.