LOST IN THE DARK RIDE

24 Oct 2008, 0225 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN               Text: WASHINGTON: From the White House to the Presidential campaign trail to the American scientific community, India’s modest Chandrayaan moon venture, while greeted warmly, reminded the US that it was getting sloppy in maintaining its supreme lead in space expedition. Democratic candidate Barack Obama, whose alert campaign staff seem to keep him abreast of any development in India (he was quick to condole the death of Field Marshal Maneckshaw even…

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              Text: NEW YORK: Russian authorities have blocked Google Inc from buying an online ad service. Google said in July that it…

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TENSIONS boiled around Georgia’s breakaway regions today, as Tbilisi said Russia was massing troops in South Ossetia and rebels in Abkhazia accused Georgia of killing a senior army officer. Russia denied the troop build-up, accusing Georgia of having violated a ceasefire agreement by deploying special forces near the rebel regions. The incidents underscored how high tensions remain after Russia and pro-Western Georgia fought a brief war over South Ossetia in August, sowing instability in the strategic Caucasus region. Georgian Interior Ministry Spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP that Russia had deployed an additional 2000…

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A drug developed to treat leukaemia may be a powerful new weapon against multiple sclerosis, early trials suggest.

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The British team that drove a car through the sound barrier for the first time in 1997 says it now plans to beat 1,000mph.

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Oil prices fall to 16-month lows on growing signs that a global economic slowdown is reducing demand for crude.

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White House hopeful Barack Obama warns that rival John McCain’s policies will “endanger” US national security.

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The former boss of Italy’s central bank is to go on trial accused of market manipulation in a banking takeover in 2005.

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US scientists say they have erased memories from mice, raising hopes the technique could help humans overcome traumatic events.

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Eighteen people die in a huge blast at an illegal fireworks factory in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, say police.

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