- Two reflectors were then installed onto IDA-2, and a visiting vehicle power cable was mated to IDA-2.
- Two students from a high school in Aruppukottai designed the bicycle.
- Two-time Olympic gold medalist Troy Dalbey talks to CNN about his own flap at the 1988 games.
- Two UFO enthusiasts, Paul from Florida and Keith from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have posted footage online from a live feed of the moon's surface. And while the opening segment of the clip is fairly uneventful, suddenly the action springs into life. A black dot (circled in each frame) is seen to move from the bottom of the moon, up to the top, weaving in and out, before disappearing into the atmosphere.
- Two unique exhibitions, one celebrating Parsi New Year and the other on orchids, are on view at Ambara
- Typhoon Dianmu hits southern China
- Tyrannosaurus rex fossil with complete skull discovered
- Uber announces driverless service to launch in US
- Uber driver booked for molesting Italian national
- Uber driver molests foreigner in Mumbai, held
- Uber is obsessed with winning the self-driving car race. What happens to its drivers?
- Uber said the program would begin with the cars carrying company “co-pilots,” engineers and safety personnel, after
- Uber Technologies Inc on Thursday said it would deploy driverless cars for its ride-sharing services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this month, pushing the envelope for the use of self-driving technology.
- UDF district liaison panels to be reconstituted
- Ujjivan Financial Services ties up CRMnext for their digital transformation journey
- Ujjivan Financial Services ties up with CRMNEXT
- Ukraine details payments allegedly earmarked for Trump aide
- Ukraine says Russia moved troops, defense equipment across border; invasion chances ‘very significant’
- ULA Delta IV successfully launches AFSPC-6 mission
- Unaided private schools can surrender their land and get compensation if they cannot comply with the allotment conditions like hiking fees only with government permission, Delhi High Court said today...
- UN body: Digital divide in Asia Pacific disturbing
- UN bribery probe: FBI asked Macau tycoon if partner was Chinese agent
- Uncertainty over submission of caste census report
- U.N. chief: Moral responsibility to help Haiti cholera victims
- Under a "destination-based" rather than "production-based" tax, consumers are only responsible for the tax levied by the last actor in the supply chain.
- Under the Constellation Program, Orion was planned to be the ISS’ crew vehicle to succeed the Space Shuttle, and thus the station would need a LIDS port in order to be able to receive Orion.
- Under Xi Jinping's presidentship, it is apparent that free and fair media reportage is difficult
- UNESCO denies reports on delisting of Sri Lankaֹ’s Golden Temple
- UNESCO has asserted that no reference was “ever made” to the delisting of the Golden Temple of Badulla, one of the eight World Heritage sites in Sri Lanka, during the recent visit of its Director-Gen...
- UN experts press Turkey to adhere to human rights obligations despite state of emergency
- Unexplained developmental disorder linked to gene involved in essential cellular processes
- UnIndian Movie Review: Brett Lee-Tannishtha Chatterjee's Love Story is Cliched, But Fun
- Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh met the visiting Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal Shri Bimalendra Nidhi here today.
- Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday called upon people from all sections of society to re-dedicate themselves to protecting ‘Swarajya’ (Independence) while s...
- Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti launched
- Union Minister Mahesh Sharma's PSO Thrashes Security Guard
- Union Minister Mahesh Sharma suspends security officer for thrashing guards
- Union Minister’s security man attacks guard
- United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Delta IV rocket in the early hours of Friday morning, carrying out the AFSPC-6 mission for the US Air Force. The…
- United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Delta IV rocket in the early hours of Friday morning, carrying out the AFSPC-6 mission for the US Air Force. The launch, which took place from Cape Canaveral, occurred slightly after the opening of a 65-minute window, with T-0 at 00:52 local time (04:52 UTC).
- United Nations Associations Inspire Building Better World, Secretary-General Says in Video Message Saluting Federation’s Seventieth Anniversary
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- United Nations human rights experts today urged Turkey to uphold its obligations under international human rights law despite the attempted mid-July coup and during the subsequent state of emergency.
- University of Bath discusses what aliens may look like and believes once we have a better understanding between functional and accidental human traits, we will have a better picture of alien life.
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UN panel seeks push toward nuclear disarmament
- UN rights office urges Ethiopia to ensure independent probe of reported violations in Oromia region
- Unsung medal hopers
- Up against the reigning two-time badminton champion, the top-ranked Carolina Marin, in the gold medal match at the Olympics, P.V. Sindhu was expected to give it her all. And she did. More than the re...
- Upcoming Elections ‘Historic Opportunity’ for More Representative Governance in Somalia, Security Council Stresses, Urging Respect for Revised Timetable
- UPSIDC fund to upgrade infrastructure in industrial enclaves in UP
- UPSIDC plans to raise Rs 1,500 crore from World Bank
- Up to 270 microcephaly cases expected in Puerto Rico due to Zika: officials
- Usain bolts to 200m gold at Rio
- Usain Bolt won his eighth straight gold medal at the Olympic Stadium in Rio on Thursday night, but the Jamaican legend fell short of breaking his world record. "I wasn't fully happy, but I was happy that I won a gold medal," Bolt said
- US Air Force resumes strategic bombing operations in Afghanistan
- U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul
- US approves major weapons sale to Afghanistan worth $60 million
- US army fudged its accounts by trillions
- US astronauts begin spacewalk to install new docking port
- U.S. astronauts prepare station for commercial space taxis
- USA vs Spain Semifinals Preview
- US Awards Lockheed Martin $10Bln to Support C-130J Aircraft Production
- U.S. basketball reaches gold medal game
- US-Botschafter zu Türkei-Putsch: Gülen ist ein Mann der CIA
- US calls dazed boy 'the real face' of Syria's war
- US elections: Mike Pence files personal financial disclosure form
- US Federal Government Mobilized $16.7Mln for Louisiana Flood Emergency
- Using nature's recipe to create mother of pearl
- Using Twitter, Khan made a comparison of both Prime Ministers’ and highlighted the abysmal status of FDI in Pakistan.
- U.S., Jamaica advance to the men’s 4×400-meter relay final
- U.S. jets scramble as Syrians bomb near American forces
- U.S.jetsscrambleasSyriansbombnearAmericanforces', 'width
- U.S. judge rejects Uber’s $100 million settlement with driver; says it’s too less
- U.S. men’s basketball reaches the gold medal game, style points notwithstanding
- US military cuts staff in Saudi involved in Yemen coalition planning
- U.S. officials are investigating a Beijing businessman they suspect is a Chinese agent who may have directed a Macau billionaire charged in an alleged U.N. bribery scheme.
- US Olympic authorities apologized to Brazil as two US swimmers were allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story...
- US Olympic Swimmer Ryan Lochte
- U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized for his behavior in Brazil, following a disputed claim that he was robbed at gunpoint while on a night out with three teammates.
- US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized for his behavior with three of his teammates over the weekend at a Rio de Janeiro gas station. CNN's Brynn Gingras reports.
- US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologizes for his behavior with three of his teammates over the weekend at a Rio de Janeiro gas station.
- US President Barack Obama will visit flood-hit Louisiana next week, the White House said today, after he came under fire for not suspending his summer vacation to survey the damage in the southern state.
- USS Louisiana Collision at Sea
- US stocks edged higher in Thursday afternoon trading as gains in energy shares and in Wal-Mart offset telecom’s losses.Wal-Mart rose 1.7 per cent after the retailer’s better-than-expected quarterly pr...
- U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen lied to Rio police because ‘he wanted to protect’ Ryan Lochte, officer says
- U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen lied to Rio police because ‘he wanted to protect’ Ryan Lochte, says lawyer
- U.S. Swimmer Lochte Apologizes for Behavior in Brazil
- US swimmer Ryan Lochte apologises for Rio 'robbery' behaviour
- US swimmers quit Brazil after admitting to inventing mugging
- US Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today by telephone to discuss joint commitments to NATO and the maintenance of a vibrant US-Canadian alliance," the White House said in a press release.
- U.S. Warns Assad After Scrambling Jets to Syria
- U.S. women’s water polo team beats Italy to defend Olympic gold medal
- U.S. women’s water polo earns gold with emotional win over Italy
- U.S. women’s water polo wins gold with dominant, emotional win over Italy
- U.S. women’s water polo wins gold with emotional win over Italy
- U-Va. tries to break up Block Party, the annual alcohol-soaked rite of passage
- Vacate govt. bungalow gracefully, HC tells Omar’s estranged wife
- Vagrant Birds May Portend Species Distribution in Climate-Changed World
- Various reports have suggested that the Centre was moo...
- Vedanta CEO says response from Cairn India shareholders to revised buyout offer positive
- Vedanta expects value out of zinc for Cairn
- Vedanta to roll over part of its debt
- Veeram First Look: Kunal Kapoor Transforms Into a Warrior
- Venus-like exoplanet may have oxygen atmosphere: study
- Viacom CEO Is Out in Reported Settlement
- Vice-premier stresses reform and innovation of food, drug monitoring
- Victims of clashes overwhelm hospital in Indian Kashmir
- Victor Lebedev (RUS) of Russia and Sandeep Tomar (IND) of India compete...
- Vietnam Bans Pokemon Go From Sensitive Locations
- View a Seal Chasing a School of Fish From High Above
- Vijaya Bank earmarks ₹1,800 cr for next round of UDAY bonds
- Vijayakant moves court to quash defamation cases
- Vijay Goel ran riot in Rio
- Vijay Goel received a sharp rap from the Rio Olympic organisers who accused him of flouting accreditation norms
- Virender Sehwag's message to Olympics medallist Sakshi Malik is the best ever
- Visitors to the White House taste tested the recipes Melania Trump and former President Bill Clinton provided to Family Circle magazine.
- VK Singh Visits Saudi Arabia To Help Laid-Off Indian Workers
- Vladimir Putin flew into Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “common sense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula.
- Vodafone India offers unlimited voice calls, roaming to hold onto top customers
- Vodafone’s move comes less than a fortnight after No 1 carrier, Bharti Airtel launched free and unlimited voice calls to ringfence its top revenue generating customers.
- Voicing concern over serious human rights violations in the Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia earlier this month, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the Government to ensure access for independent observers to affected areas and to work towards opening up political and democratic reforms.
- Voters Seldom Swayed by Local Campaign Stops
- VW eyes transportation deals to boost autonomous car plans
- VW eyes transportation deals to boost self-driving car plans
- Wall St inches lower, as investors assess rate outlook
- Wall Street banks prefer clients with millions -- if not billions -- to invest. Soldiers, nurses and construction workers typically aren't anywhere near that wealthy.<img
- Wall Street dips as investors assess rate outlook
- Wall Street inches up with energy, Wal-Mart
- 'War Dogs' cast on bringing 'unimaginable' true story of two arms dealers to life
- War Dogs" is a film about two twenty-somethings who become international arms dealers. CNNMoney's Frank Pallotta sits down with stars Miles Teller and Jonah Hill and director Todd Phillips to talk about bringing this true story to the big screen.
- War Dogs Movie Review
- War Dogs review: Guns and posers
- War Dogs" stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller talk about how they brought the true story of two unlikely arms dealers to life.
- War Dogs: Stoners and the War on Terror
- Warming Permafrost Could Mean New Smallpox Epidemic in Russia
- WASHINGTON, U.S. – Newly discovered emails reveal that a covert lobbying operation was conducted by a firm run by Donald Trump's campaign on behalf of Ukraine’s then ruling party, ...
- Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry called up Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah in a bid to douse the simmering tension between the two Afghan leaders and save ...
- Was Malia Obama spirited away from 'wild' party on Martha's Vineyard?
- Waste-to-energy plantsclose to being a reality
- Watch Christine Nairn score from 40 yards in Spirit’s victory
- Watch Mr. World 2016 on Zoom TV promo
- Watch: People performing havan ahead of PV Sindhu's final match" border
- Watch Rohit Khandelwal's historic win at Mr World 2016
- We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a legal requirement to show one's face in places where it is necessary for our society's coexistence - at the wheel, at public offices, at the registry office, in schools and universities, in the civil service, in court,"
- ‘Weapons Better Than Stuxnet’: NSA Spies Get Hacked
- We at The Economic Times polled more than 60 of India’s most influential startup entrepreneurs and more than 25 venture capitalists in India about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem
- 'We cannot and will not leave anyone behind,' says UN chief on World Humanitarian Day
- We couldn't convince CAS on conspiracy, sabotage: WFI chief
- Wedding hall demolition ties couples up in knots
- We dig for the truth. So you don't have to.
- Wednesday, ILO launches 2016 youth employment outlook…
- Week in Review August 13th - August 19th, 2016. A look back at your Navy in Action. Photos and video submitted by the Fleet. Submit your photos via www.navy.mil
- Welcoming the continued political and security progress in Somalia, the Security Council today underscored the need to maintain the momentum towards democratic governance with an inclusive, transparent and credible national electoral process this year as a stepping stone to universal suffrage elections in 2020.
- Well fought, your accomplishment is historic: PM
- well-written phrase"
- West Bengal DGP holds high level meeting to review security measures
- West Indies vs India, 4th Test, Day 1
- Wet outfield, soggy conditions and a fresh downpour in the afternoon prevented any play on the second day of the fourth cricket Test between India and the West Indies at Queen's Park Oval here on Friday.
- WFI’s imprudence cost India a quota place
- What Air India gifted Olympic hero Sakshi Malik
- What does the Ryan Lochte scandal mean for the future of U.S. men's swimming?
- What founders & venture capitalists think about the Indian startup ecosystem? [Video]
- What Modi’s professions over human rights in Balochistan really mean
- What's next for Gawker writers?
- What surprised Zimmerman, the deputy policy director at the Center for Western Priorities,
- What time SHOULD your children go to bed? Clever calculator creates a sleeping schedule to get kids ready to wake up early to go back to school
- What will aliens look like? Experts reveal why our first contact may surprise us - and why they probably won't look like insects
- While India's long-term crisis has to do with water and institutional atrophy, the more pressing issue is the lack of jobs
- While “indirect handovers” were originally planned to be the operating model for commercial crew vehicles, whereby one crew vehicle leaves the ISS before its replacement arrives, it is now believed that direct handovers will be the preferred arrangement.
- While its budget overtakes William Wyler’s opus, will this Ben-Hur remake pack the same punch?
- While uncertainty looms large over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Islamabad for the Saarc summit in November, Pakistan's...
- While uncertainty looms large over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Islamabad for the Saarc summit in November, Pakistan's...
- Who Was at the Launch of NBS x Chuvaness Collab?
- Why Asus launched a Rs 62,999 smartphone in India
- Why Breakfast Is Important
- Why its not a rosy picture for Software-as-a-Service companies
- Why Only BJP Leaders Become Governors, Questions Shiv Sena
- Why photojournalists in Syria are focusing on young war-affected children
- Why Rothschild is Shifting From US Dollars to Gold, 'Other Currencies'
- Why Russia has advanced strike fighters at an air base in Iran
- Why Russian tuberculosis is the most infectious
- Why Yellowstone officials are pouring poison in streams
- Why Your Children's Commute Won't Look Anything Like Yours
- Widespread open defecation pollutes the river
- Wildlife photographer-siblings from Dharwad will organise a three-day “Photography Exhibition on Birds” in the city with the twin objectives of showcasing their talents in photography and also creati...
- Will appeal to the Prime Minister: Narsingh
- Williams meanwhile headed to the infamous “rats nest” cabling area between the Z1 Truss, S0 Truss, Node 1 and Destiny modules, where he performed some cable routing work in prep for a future EVA.
- Winner: Cuprinol Shed of the year 2016, in pictures
- With an estimated 500,000 human infections and 50,000 deaths annually, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the second most prevalent parasitic killer, behind malaria. Leishmania parasites are transmitted through the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. A study makes the case that fighting the insects by treating cattle with the long-lasting insecticide, fipronil, could substantially reduce VL in areas where people and cattle live in close proximity.
- With a record 130 million people worldwide dependent on humanitarian assistance, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that while solutions to complex crises may not be simple or quick, &#8220there are things we can all do &#8211 we can show compassion, raise our voices against injustice, and work for change.&#8221
- With at least eight human rights defenders killed in Honduras this year, United Nations and international rights experts today said the country is one of the most hostile and dangerous for rights defenders and urged the Government to take urgent steps to ensure their protection.
- With five cases of local transmission now confirmed for Miami Beach, federal health officials urged pregnant women to avoid a 20-block zone in the heart of the city’s tourist area.
- With granting access to transit routes Bangladesh Government has shown friendly, multi-dimensional and expanding bilateral relation with India. This friendly gesture is expected to improve the situation of shortage of petroleum products in Tripura.
- With India moving up 15 notches in the Global Innovation Index to the 66th position this year, from 81 in 2015, the government has decided to set up a panel on innovation to suggest ways to improve t...
- With India’s internet user base rising, the need to improve quality of access is pressing
- With more private spaceship traffic expected at the International Space Station in the coming years, two US astronauts have embarked on a spacewalk to install a parking spot for them.
- With or without merger, it will be business as usual in Cairn and Vedanta: TomAlbanese
- With or without Olympic medal, women should be allowed to shine
- With respect to your editorial, ‘Paying for performance’ (August 19), it is astounding that Raghuram Rajan should compare himself or PSB chiefs with the heads of private commercial banks in terms of...
- With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections slated to be held in early 2017, the Congress on Friday sought civic ward delimitations and reservations at the earliest.“In 2012, when the...
- With the Kotak Bharat app, users can transfer money, recharge their mobile or DTH, link Aadhaar number to the bank account, locate nearby Kotak ATMs and branches.
- With the nation bracing for the forthcoming, final vitriolic battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Ashleigh Banfield has uncovered a third, decidedly less traditional, option.
- With the release of Ben-Hur, which reviews are already calling boring and unnecessary, it has solidified the image that Hollywood is more than willing to spend big bucks on a remake that doesn’t need...
- Woman power at Rio
- Woman sentenced for exporting US military gear to China
- Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final
- Women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer have long complained of lingering cognitive impairments after treatment. These effects are referred to as 'chemobrain,' a feeling of mental fogginess. A new study reports long-lasting cognitive impairments in mice when they are administered a chemotherapy regimen used to treat breast cancer in humans.
- Women urged to contest local body elections
- Working on policy for payment of construction firms' debt by agencies: NITI Aayog CEO
- World Bank aid for improving facilities in colleges likely
- World equity markets advanced on Thursday, helped by positive US labour market data and comments from an influential Federal Reserve policymaker about strong hiring gains in recent months, while high...
- World Humanitarian Day
- World Humanitarian Day on 19 August
- World Humanitarian Day on 19 August
- World Photography Day: Top 5 Camera-Focused Android Phones
- World's highest & longest glass bottomed bridge to open this weekend
- World stock markets climb on labour data; oil gains
- World stocks fall in light trading as dollar rises on Fed hike bets
- Wrestler Sakshi Malik wins India’s first Rio medal
- Wrestler says she was hit in the face twice by head of Russian wrestling federation
- WrestlersaysshewashitinthefacetwicebyheadofRussianwrestlingfederation', 'width
- Xi vows to promote China-Myanmar partnership
- ‘Yeddyurappa admirers association is apolitical’
- Yoga expert A.G. Mohan and his family will be feted at the European convention opening on August 21. Geetha Venkataramanan has the details.
- You Can Finally Hear (and Watch) a New Frank Ocean Album
- You Can Finally Hear (and Watch) a New Frank Ocean Album
- 'Zero' results for Centre's efforts to clean Ganga: NGT
- Zika may damage brain cells in adults, not just newborns: Research
- Zika researchers seeking volunteers willing to be infected
- Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his four-day-trip to Ghana due to unspecified reasons.
- Zinnov says this is over & above hundreds of thousands of jobs that will be lost due to IT automation which will hit unskilled & blue-collar staff hard
- Zombies walk down Fifth Avenue as they take part in the Zombie Walk on day three of the Comic-Con International held at the San Diego Convention Center
- . Ms. Espinosa brings to her new appointment more than 30 years of experience at the highest levels in international relations, with a specialization in climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equality and protection of human rights. In this
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