5 days ago
Lavrov, Kerry to meet in Sweden, may discuss Syria
Moscow, May 14 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on the sidelines of the two-day Arctic Council meeting due to begin in Sweden Tuesday.Following the talks held on May 8 in Moscow, the foreign minister and the US secretary of state plan to hold a separate meeting in Kiruna, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.Ryabkov said the age ... read more

16 days ago
Russian firm Gazprom gets four Arctic gas fields
Moscow, May 4 - The Russian government has granted state-controlled gas giant Gazprom the right to explore four gas fields in the northern Barents Sea.The four offshore fields hold an estimated 1.8 trillion cubic metres of natural gas, according to figures provided in the decree of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.Russia produced 655 billion cubic metres of natural gas in 2012, according to official ... read more

17 days ago
Shell CEO to quit in 2014
Moscow, May 2 - The head of the Royal Dutch Shell plc, Peter Voser, will leave his job in the first half of 2014, the oil and gas giant said on its website Thursday.No explanation was provided for the departure of Voser, 54, a Swiss native who worked at Shell since 1982 and became the company's CEO in 2009.Shell also named no tentative replacement for Voser, saying only that its board will lead a ... read more

Hyderabad | 24 days ago
Several celestial events lined up for sky gazers
Hyderabad, April 25 - Several celestial events are lined up for sky gazers during April-May, beginning with Thursday's partial lunar eclipse - the only visible lunar eclipse of the year in India.The eclipse begins at 11.32 p.m. on April 25 and ends at 03.43 a.m. on April 26. According to the Planetary Society of India -, people can noticeably witness darkening of the moon's disk between 1.22-1.53 ... read more

Los Angeles | 1 month ago
Cruise to star in alien adventure 'Yukikaze'
Los Angeles, April 17 - Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is reportedly set to play the lead role in sci-fi movie Yukikaze, an adaptation of a Japanese novel series by Chohel Kamayashi.The big-budget Hollywood film will be set three decades after alien force JAM invades Earth through a wormhole that appears over Antarctica.Cruise will star as part of a special planetary defence force, who avenge the atta ... read more

4 months ago
First samples obtained from sub-glacial Antarctic lake
Moscow, Jan 11 - Russian researchers have obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica during drilling operations, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute said.In February 2012, after decades of drilling, Russian scientists finally managed to penetrate Antarctica's ice sheet at a depth of some 3.7 km to reveal the secrets of Lake Vostok ... read more

4 months ago
First samples obtained from sub-glacial Antarctic lake
Moscow, Jan 11 - Russian researchers have obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica during drilling operations, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute said.In February 2012, after decades of drilling, Russian scientists finally managed to penetrate Antarctica's ice sheet at a depth of some 3.7 km to reveal the secrets of Lake Vostok ... read more

Washington | 4 months ago
Biologists peep into life-sustaining microbial underworld
Washington, Jan 6 - Researchers have unlocked the black box to the underground world, home to billions of microscopic organisms, unravelling why they make all life sustainable.The organisms that live in soil do all kinds of important things for us -- they decompose and decontaminate our waste and toxic chemicals, purify our water, prevent erosion, renew fertility, said Byron Adams, professor of bi ... read more

Pune | 4 months ago
Kulwant Singh Gill is new NDA commandant
Pune, Jan 1 - Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill Tuesday took over as the new commandant of the National Defence Academy - here, an official said.Gill was commissioned in the Flying Branch of the Indian Air Force - in 1977 and has more than 7,000 hours of accident-free flying to his credit. Gill is also a qualified flying instructor. He was also a member of the seventh and eighth Indian expeditions to ... read more

Washington | 4 months ago
Fresh research brings more worry over Western Antarctica ice
Washington, Dec 24 - The western part of the Antarctica ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought, raising concerns about its contribution to rising sea levels.The temperature record from Byrd Station, a scientific outpost in the centre of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet -, demonstrates a marked increase of 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit - in average annual temperature sin ... read more