Ankur Panwar 25, convicted of murder and other offences at a special court in Mumbai, India, has been sentenced to death, undersections 302 (murder) and 326B (Voluntarily throwing acid) of the Indian Penal Code, for a fatal acid attack on Preeti Rathi 23, at Bandra, a busy railway station three years ago, when she got…
Sprinter Jonnie Peacock 23, won his T44 100m title, Great Britain’s seventh gold medal of an extraordinary second day of the Rio Paralympics 2016. Cyclist Sophie Thornhill, with pilot Helen Scott and Jody Cundy won gold medals in the Velodrome. They set the Games records in Women’s B 1000m time trial and Cundy who won…
Sony Xperia XA’s immaculate designed smartphone, as it has two-day battery life for people with fast-paced life. You also don’t have to miss the perfect shot, by using the quick-launch camera which has hybrid autofocus, locking onto moving subjects in milliseconds. Its 64-bit Octa-core processor keeps things running with smoothly, with speedy access to apps.…
Mary T. Barra 54, from Waterford, Michigan, US, a Stanford Graduate School of Business, retained the Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman after a year of “dramatic improvement” at the $152.4 billion in revenues of the auto giant, after she ably steered successfully through the ignition switch crisis that hit in 2014, ended operations in Russia and…
Liberty Media, US firm, had confirmed it is buying the racing business Formula One for £3.3bn ($4.4bn). Bernie Ecclestone will remain as chief executive but Chase Carey, Vice-chairman of 21st Century Fox , will become the new chairman. Liberty Media has stakes in several sports and entertainment business, including the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball…
Dame Sarah Storey (38) wins 3000m individual pursuit final C5 3km,, her 12th gold medal and surpassed former wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as Britain’s most successful female Paralympian . The 38-year-old swimmer-turned-cyclist. Storey qualified in a world record time of three minutes 31.394 seconds more than 17 seconds quickest than Crystal Lane in qualifying.…
Pakistan tour of England and Ireland, Only T20I: England v Pakistan at Manchester, Sep 7, 2016 England 135/7 20ov AD Hales 37 off 26, 5 fours, JJ Roy 21 off 20, 2 fours, 1 six, JC Butler 16 off 15, 2 fours, EJG Morgan 14 off 16, Imad Wasim 17-2, Hasan Ali 24-2, Wahab…
India launched its INSAR-3DR advanced weather satellite on Thursday 4:50pm, 12.20GMTand slung the 2,211 kg satellite in to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, from where it could be guided to its final geostationary orbit. Indian Space Scientists took around two decades and $75m in conceiving and developing the cryogenic technology. The Satellite incorporates imaging in middle infrared…
Amit Agrawal of Amazon India plans to invest in an Indian online food delivery startup Swiggy after several discussions with the Bengaluru-based firm over the past three months. Swiggy also attracted Alibaba-backed Chinese food delivery venture Ele.me. Siggy, valued at $200m, founded by Sriharsha Majety, CEO, along with Rahul Jaimini and Nandan Reddy. It competes with…
Bayer’s takeover bid with a $56bn offer to create World’s biggest seed and crop spray supplier met with some resistance with the shareholders of Monsanto who wanted a further improved offer.Bayer Aktiengesellschaft or its subsidiaries (“Bayer AG”), to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Monsanto Company, a…