Everyone is expanding their SUV portfolios, adding new cars in their line-up to offer a crossover for any and every want of the new age car buyers. BMW is not going to be left behind and have revealed the BMW Concept X2, a sportier crossover SUV based on the BMW X1 and plugging the gap between the X1 and the X3.

Built on the same platform as the Mini Countryman, the X2 does not toe the expected hideous coupe lines of the X4 and the X6. The BMW X2, in fact, turns out to be a looker with the large grille, huge vents in the sculpted air dam and a grey treatment to the lower half. The raked C-pillar, flared wheel arches and the small windscreen in the back gives it a muscular squatted stance. (more…)

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அப்போலோ மருத்துவமனையில் 9 நாட்களாகத் தங்கி சிகிச்சை பெற்று வருகிறார் தமிழக முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா. ‘முதல்வர் இருக்கும் தளத்தில் செல்ல கடுமையான கட்டுப்பாடுகள் விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. இன்னும் சில நாட்களுக்கு சிகிச்சை தேவைப்படுகிறது’ என்கின்றனர் அப்போலோ வட்டாரத்தில்.  (more…)

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Back in 1985, a year before R Ashwin was born, Paul Hardcastle topped the charts in a dozen countries with ‘19’, a song that dealt with the average age (since disputed) of the American combat soldier during the Vietnam War. Ashwin turned 30 in the week leading up to India’s historic 500th Test in Kanpur, and once his playing days are done, he may well look back on the importance of #19 in his own journey. (more…)

For years, one needed to be a hacker to enter the dark web, a shadowy part of the internet so shrouded in secrecy that it was accessible only through special browsers and untraceable even by the world’s most sophisticated security agencies.

Not anymore. Once considered the sole domain of hackers, coders and black marketeers, the deep web can now be cracked by anyone within minutes. Thousands, even in India, are surfing the web’s dark underbelly at any given time, shopping for drugs, guns, and prescription pills. (more…)

The volume, scope and cost of cybercrime have reached very high levels – and are set to get even higher, according to a report from Europol – the European Union’s (EU) law enforcement agency.

In a report identifying eight trends in the underworld of cybercrime, Europol warned that cybercrime offences were becoming the norm and overtaking the reporting of “traditional” crimes in some EU countries. (more…)

© SpaceX A still from an animated video from the private spaceflight company SpaceX, which shows humans arriving on the Red Planet.

A breathtaking new video vividly illustrates how billionaire Elon Musk, founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, would like to send humans to Mars.

The gorgeous, computer-animated video will strike a chord with space fans, as it paints a vivid and seemingly realistic picture of humans journeying to the Red Planet. It features a list of specific technologies that could be used in a human mission to Mars, including a launch from Earth and on-orbit spaceship refueling, the use of solar arrays to power the human space capsule, and a booster-powered descent onto the Red Planet. (more…)

© Provided by Indian Express Villagers and townspeople near the LoC are worried about the possible return of cross-border shelling, which had claimed dozens of civilian lives in Uri, Tangdhar and Gurez sectors. (File)

The moment news about India’s strike across the Line of Control reached Tangdhar town, worried parents rushed to schools to bring their children back home.

Villagers and townspeople near the LoC are worried about the possible return of cross-border shelling, which had claimed dozens of civilian lives in Uri, Tangdhar and Gurez sectors. The ceasefire between India and Pakistan in 2003 had brought relief for villagers but the worries started with the recent deterioration of India-Pakistan relations that peaked with the terrorist attack on an Army base in Uri. (more…)