Rogue Pune driver remanded in police custody till Feb 3 Indian Express | A local court today remanded Santosh Mane, the state transport driver who went on a rampage mowing down eight persons and injuring 27 others here, in police custody till February 3. | Mane, who was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate V B B...
'Unstable' Pune bus driver mows down 8 Indian Express | An apparently unstable government bus driver barreled through the heart of Pune city in a commandeered vehicle for some 45 minutes Wednesday morning, mowing down eight people, injuring 30 and slamming into several bikes and cars on the way. | The b...
Rogue bus driver mows down 9, injures 28 in Pune Indian Express | A rogue bus driver went berserk on crowded streets of Pune this morning, driving an empty bus into vehicles and mowing down at least nine people on his way. | Another 28 have been injured. | The motive behind this rampage could not be immediately e...
Without Wikipedia, going gets tough for Pune students DNA India | Wikipedia's decision to go dark for 24 hours over the US anti-piracy legislation hit the city students hard on | Wednesday. | The website's blackout of its English language version made it tough for youngsters to prepare for their examinations and ...
No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down? The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week. | Sure, we'd survive. People have done it. Countries have, as Egypt did last year during the anti-government protests. And most of civilizatio...
Scientists developing salt-resistant rice Zeenews London: Scientists are developing a salt-resistant rice variety after a huge tsunami last year hit paddy fields in Japan leaving behind a salty sludge. | Farmlands that accumulate salt have lower crop yields, which can threaten food supply, as rice happens to be the staple of billions of people worldwide. | "The beauty of the new method (called Mut...
