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Asteroid Bigger Than Some of the World's Tallest Buildings Will Fly by Earth This Weekend

Jagmeet Singh | Saturday September 14, 2019

Asteroid 2000 QW7 will zip by Earth at 7:54pm EDT on September 14 (5:24am IST on September 15).

Mithali Raj Announces Retirement From T20 Internationals

Akash Khanna | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Mithali Raj, the first Indian to score 2000 T20I runs, announced her retirement from T20 Internationals on Tuesday.

Huge Asteroid, Slightly Smaller Than Burj Khalifa, Set to Pass by Earth Next Month

Gaurav Shukla | Tuesday August 27, 2019

A new asteroid is set to fly past Earth in September. Dubbed as Asteroid 2000 QW7, it will come as close as 5.3 million kms to Earth.

BPSSC Begins Online Application Process For 2,446 Vacant Posts With Bihar Police

Jobs | NDTV Education Team | Thursday August 22, 2019

BPSSC Recruitment 2019: BPSSC has begun the online application process for more than 2000 vacancies.

Maruti Suzuki XL6 Receives 2000 Bookings

Ameya Naik | Wednesday August 21, 2019

The Maruti Suzuki XL6 is only available with the petrol engine and there's no diesel on offer for the time being. The company says that the diesel will be made available if there is demand for it

Passenger Vehicle Sales Plunge 31%, Steepest Fall In Nearly 2 Decades: 10 Points

Business | Written by Sandeep Singh (with inputs from agencies) | Tuesday August 13, 2019

Domestic passenger vehicles sales in India plunged 30.98 per cent to 2,00,790 units last month, data from industry body SIAM or Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers revealed on Tuesday. The drop in sales is the worst since December 2000, when the industry sold a fifth of the vehicles it sells currently. The sales report highlighted that passe...

Jeffrey Epstein, Sex-Trafficking Accused On Suicide Watch, Kills Himself

World News | Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Renae Merle, Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post | Sunday August 11, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein, the politically connected financier charged recently with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, died Saturday after apparently hanging himself in a Manhattan cell, officials said, sparking outrage among victims who hoped to one day confront him in court and triggering multiple investigations into what happened.

Should've Used Bombs That Destroyed Buildings: Air Force Chief On Balakot

India News | Written by Vishnu Som, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Friday July 26, 2019

Given what he called "propaganda" about the air-strikes on a terrorist base in Pakistan's Balakot earlier this year, Indian fighter jets should have dropped bombs which would have destroyed entire structures, Air Force chief BS Dhanoa has told NDTV.

Blog: How I Bombed Tiger Hill From A Mirage 2000

Blog | Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar | Thursday July 25, 2019

On the 24 of June 1999 the Indian Air Force dropped its first Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) in anger. The release was from a Mirage 2000 and I was privileged to have been the pilot in command. In the days that followed, I was honoured to drop four more LGBs, thus dropping 5 out of the total of 8 LGBs delivered by the Mirage 2000 in the Kargil Conflict. T...

"What's Your Ethnicity," Top Aide Asked Reporter, Defending Trump Tweet

World News | Colby Itkowitz, The Washington Post | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Kellyanne Conway, responding to a reporter's question Tuesday about President Donald Trump's racist tweet toward four Democratic congresswomen, asked the journalist: "What's your ethnicity?"

Wife Of Pilot Killed In Bengaluru's Mirage 2000 Crash To Join Air Force

India News | Edited by Aditya Sharma | Tuesday July 16, 2019

Garima Abrol, wife of Squadron Leader Samir Abrol who was killed earlier this year while test flying a Mirage 2000 fighter jet in Bengaluru, has cleared the Services Selection Board, paving the way for her to join the Indian Air Force.

AR Rahman And Kamal Haasan To Reunite After 19 years For Thalaivan Irukkindraan

Entertainment | Monday July 15, 2019

"Your level of excitement for the project is very contagious," replied Kamal Haasan to AR Rahman's tweet

IAF's French Mirages Fly With Russian Missiles, Thanks To Israeli 'Jugaad'

India News | Written by Vishnu Som | Thursday July 11, 2019

In Air Force circles, its been referred to as the ultimate 'jugaad' or innovative fix - mating a Russian air-to-air missile to an Israeli helmet mounted display to be worn by an Indian pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 fighter.

The Most Inspiring World Cup Story This Month Isn't Football 

Mili Mitra, The Washington Post | Wednesday June 26, 2019

The team's rise to the heights of the World Cup tells a moving story about how cricket can become a tool for unity and hope - a story that echoes a much longer history.

How Israel Helped India Win The Air War During Kargil

India News | Written by Vishnu Som | Monday June 24, 2019

In 1997, two years prior to Kargil, India had signed a contract for the Israeli pods. Fifteen were to be procured for the Jaguar aircraft and five were meant for the Mirage 2000 squadrons.