Sahara Force India have confirmed that their 2015 car will makes its debut on day two of the final pre-season testing that began here today.
“With the car due to be completed on Friday morning, @NicoHulkenberg is lined up to step in on Friday pm to take the first miles in the VJM08,” tweeted the Silverstone squad.
The team further said Hulkenberg will do the testing duties on Saturday and Sergio Perez on Sunday.
Qatar, a key Arab partner in the U.S.-led coalition to take on the Islamic State ( IS), believes that the coalition is “not doing enough” to fight the terror outfit, Qatari officials said.
Officials stressed on the need to accelerate and expand the training of moderate rebels, reported the CNN.
The U.S. is still in the process of vetting moderate rebel groups.
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Thursday said appropriate action will be taken against those involved in running dance bars and alleged prostitution in the coastal belt. “I have received reports about what has been happening in the coastal belt. I have initiated appropriate action in the matter,” Parsekar, said on the sidelines of two-day long ‘Science Fiesta’ programme.
Last week, a group of protesters, purportedly led by BJP MLA Michael Lobo had demolished two structures at two separate bars in the Calangute-Baga belt, claiming that it housed dance bars.
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is helping victims battle with rare diseases through his Steve Waugh Foundation in Sydney.
Thanks to Waugh, Renee Eliades, who is a 23-year-old in the body of a three-year-old, can now breathe easier. Eliades is suffering from geleophysic dysplasia, a form of dwarfism, and is dependent on bottled oxygen among other things.
The most anticipated clash of the cricket World Cup created Indian television history as 288 million viewers tuned in to watch the defending champions take on Pakistan on February 15 in Adelaide.
The game, which the Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side comfortably won, was the most-watched television event in India in the last four years, since the finals of the 2011 World Cup.
The match between the arch-rivals rated 14.8 TVR (TAM data M15+ ABC) across Star network including Doordarshan (DD). The match rated 11.9 TVR (TAM data M15+ ABC) on Star network and 2.9 TVR (TAM data M15+ ABC) on DD.
Dubai has launched the first of its 16 ‘electric charging stations’ here, allowing motorists to charge their eco-friendly vehicles for a fee.
Each station can accommodate two vehicles at the same time. A total of 100 charging stations for hybrid and electric vehicles will be launched by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) by the end of this year.
A complete charge will take between two to eight hours depending upon the vehicle. Fast charging stations that take 30 minutes will be available by the end of this year.
A federal jury in Texas has reportedly asked Apple to pay damages worth 532.9 million dollars to Smartflash for infringing three patents owned by it.
The jury concluded that Apple used Smartflash’s patents in its iTunes software without permission, rejecting Apple’s claims that the patents were invalid. The patents pertained to digital rights management (DRM), data storage, and payment systems, reported The Verge.
It has been a near-flawless performance by the Indian cricket team in the ongoing ICC World Cup but there is one grey area that skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the team management would quickly like to address before the side gets ready for the all-important knock-out stage of the competition.
The two facile victories over arch-rivals Pakistan and a formidable South Africa has apparently papered over the cracks that seemed to appear during India’s batting at the death.
Now Batman lovers can make love in Batcave-themed bedroom for only 40 pounds.
Comic-loving romeos are lining up to book the Gotham City superhero-styled room complete, which has its own Batmobile, for three hours with their lover, no questions asked, the Mirror reported.
Management said that though it just one of the rooms at the Eden Motel in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, it was the most popular one since they started out rooms with various themes in 2012.
Her fast numbers ‘Baby Doll’ and ‘Lovely’ have made her a hit with the masses but rather than cashing in on her popularity singer Kanika Kapoor, who is just one-year-old in Bollywood, wants to prove her versatility with meaningful songs.
“I don’t want to be stereotyped, that’s why I am coming out with different songs. I will always have dance songs like ‘Ek Paheli Leela’. I trained in classical music for 12 years from late Pandit Ganesh Prasad Mishra of Benaras gharana. I want to balance between genres,” Kanika told PTI.
Even as 926 people have perished to swine flu and over 16,000 are affected, government today asserted that it is “very serious” on combating the challenge and asked people not to panic but be alert as necessary arrangements are in place to deal with the situation.
Samiullah Shenwari insisted he’d simply “done my job” after his superb 96 set-up Afghanistan’s first-ever World Cup win with a thrilling one-wicket victory over Scotland in Dunedin today.
Afghanistan collapsed to 97 for seven in pursuit of a modest target of 211 and were all but out of this Pool A clash at University Oval.
But for the second time in as many days, following Ireland’s nailbiting win over the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, two non-Test nations produced a dramatic climax to a World Cup match.
Kevin Spacey will be awarded with a special prize for his outstanding contribution to the Old Vic at this year’s Olivier Awards.
Caro Newling, president of the Society of London Theatre said that the advocacy of the Oscar-winner, who became artistic director at London’s Old Vic in 2004 has been a constant boon, and they will miss him as a valued colleague, the BBC reported.
People who sleep for more than eight hours a day may be at an increased risk of stroke, a new Cambridge study has found.
This risk doubles for older people who persistently sleep longer than average, researchers said.
The researchers said it is unclear why this association exists and call for further research to explore the link.
Researchers from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, UK, followed just under 10,000 people aged 42-81 years of age from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk cohort over 9.5 years.
Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to redo 125 hours of her community service for a reckless driving charge after she tried to pass off time on stage in London as volunteering.
As per the 28-year-old actress’ lawyer Shawn Holley, Lohan did a pretty great thing for unfortunate London children by giving them the experience of a West End London play, TMZ.com reported.
The judge, who disagreed and threw out more than half of Lohan’s community service hours, ordered her to redo 125 hours to complete her probation.
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls today said that he “condemned with the greatest strength” a decision by three French lawmakers to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he described as “a butcher”.
“I want to condemn this initiative with the greatest strength,” Valls told TV station BFMTV.
“For parliamentarians to go without warning to meet a butcher…. I think it was a moral failing.”
A cross-party group of four French lawmakers made an unofficial trip to the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday and held talks with senior ministers.
Dreaded terror group ISIS and all its affiliate organisations, responsible for series of savage attacks and killings in Iraq and Syria, have been banned in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Recruitment of youths to the outfit from India and their radicalisation is a matter of serious concern for the country especially with regard to its likely impact on national security when such youth return to India, the Home Ministry said while banning the terrorist group.
U.S. Army General who was in charge of the training of Iraqi troops has said that the hurried mission to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State (IS) militants may be doomed.
According to the Washington Times, Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero said that Mosul is booby-trapped with explosives and suicide bombers.
He said that two months time is not enough to retake the city from IS extremists.
It is the responsibility of every driver to be in full control of his vehicle and to drive at a speed so as not to endanger lives of others, a Delhi court has observed while upholding jail term of a bus driver whose “reckless” driving led to the death of a scooterist.
District and Sessions Judge Ina Malhotra dismissed the appeal of bus driver Jai Singh against a magisterial court’s order awarding him six months in jail for the offence of rash and negligent driving and causing death of a person.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided not to bank on ‘busy’ former pace bowling icon Wasim Akram for help during the ongoing World Cup.
It was reportedly revealed that the PCB avoid contacting Akram though the latter had expressed his desire to lend a helping hand to the Pakistan team, which has struggled to find pace in the ongoing tournament having lost both of its matches in the current World Cup.
JPMorgan Chase has revealed that the bank likes to associate with “attractive and engaged” customers like Apple Pay users .
As per AppleInsider, Chase told investors that more than 1 million customers have set up their Chase credit and debit cards for use with Apple Pay, the Verge reported.
Apple Pay customers, who tend to be nine years younger than the bank’s average yet earn 21 percent more, constitute a greater portion of the overall credit card spend.
Andy Murray sure knows how to keep a poker face even when there’s a belly dancer gyrating around him.
The 27-year-old tennis champ was at a players dinner in Dubai, where a belly dancer gave him a full show, but the grumpy Scotsman’s lips just didn’t curve, the Mirror reported.
The player, who’ll soon be married to his fiancee Kim Sears late this year, kept a straight face in front of watching media even when the dancer was just inches away from him.
Murray is currently taking part in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. (ANI)
Legendary New Zealand cricketer Martin Crowe has advised South African skipper AB de Villiers that pace bowler Wayne Parnell should be given the new-ball, in order to boost his confidence and maximize his ability to swing deliveries in the ongoing World Cup.
In his column for the ESPNcricinfo, Crowe admitted that South African bowling requires little bit of tuning, saying that struggling Wayne Parnell should be given a shot at opening the bowling, Sport24 reported.
Former Railways Minister Pawan Bansal on Thursday termed the Railway Budget for fiscal 2015-16 as disappointing, and accused the NDA Government of wrongly taking credit for not increasing passenger fares.
He felt that the fare should have been actually lowered in the wake of a lowering of diesel prices.
Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday lauded the Centre’s Railway Budget for fiscal 2015-16 in Parliament as a profound development oriented budget laying down the roadmap of the critical contribution of Indian Railways in national development.