Trains, planes and cars halted by snow and ice. Gas and electricity supplies rationed. Sensitive crops ruined. Boats frozen into waterways.

For weeks, images of the coldest weather for decades have filled the media across Europe, Asia and North America.

Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s.

Vladimir Radyuhin

Russia

Bangalore: Isro

Moscow: Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

The Russian space agency will invite Nasa, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project once it is finalised
ussia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with earth, the head of the country's space agency said on Wednesday.

In the race to grab their share of the emerging nuclear market of India, Russia and France have established a substantial lead over the US. Ironical, isn

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