Tag: Mars

India has test-fired its Mars mission engine for the first time, local media reported Tuesday. The Mars mission engine, known as the liquid apogee motor...

CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has...

NASA transmitted the first song to be broadcast from Mars on Tuesday, by Grammy-winning US musician will.i.am, as part of efforts to inspire young...

NASA transmitted the first song to be broadcast from Mars on Tuesday, by Grammy-winning US musician will.i.am, as part of efforts to inspire young...

India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission...

India’s government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet’s climate and geology, a report...

A Las Vegas judge dismissed the cocaine possession case against pop star Bruno Mars after he successfully completed court-ordered drug education classes and community...

Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain...

Fading light forced the suspension of the Australia-Switzerland Davis Cup World Group playoff on Sunday, with Lleyton Hewitt and Stanislas Wawrinka into the final...

People belonging to the lower and lower-middle class of the country have thronged to Landa Bazaars to buy second hand clothes for themselves and...

Owing to the high price of Independence Day merchandise, a majority of citizens was unable to buy flags and buntings to celebrate the 64th...

The Punjab Assembly was a scene of mayhem on Wednesday when the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) came face to...

Pop singer Bruno Mars will plead guilty to a charge of possessing cocaine in Las Vegas last September and receive probation, among other sentencing requirements. Clark County District Attorney David Roger told the Las Vegas Review Journal that Mars will be sentenced to a year of probation, pay a $2,000 fine, perform 200 hours of community service and attend drug counseling.
Mars, 25, rose to the top of the pop charts in 2010 with "Nothin' on You," his collaboration with rapper

Bruno Mars returned to the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Thursday, ending Britney Spears' one-week reign. Mars' "Grenade" logged a third nonconsecutive week at the top, having alternated between Nos. 1 and 2 over the past six weeks. Spears' "Hold It Against Me" tumbled to No. 6, as a hefty 55% slide in download sales more than offset a gain in radio airplay.
Katy Perry's former No. 1 "Firework" rose one to No. 2, rapper Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" jumpe

LAHORE: The future of the Lahore Ring Road (LRR) project, brainchild of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, is again looking dark, as three major packages of its northern loop planned to be completed in the current fiscal year, have been shelved after alleged misappropriations and slow delivery of payments to the contractors, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Although other packages of the LRR project would continue according to the original roadmap, the scrapping

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The Tollington Market, which was once famous for bakery items and groceries, has been turned into a filthy and unhygienic business centre due to mismanagement by the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) authorities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The market located in Shadman has 107 shops and receives more than 500 visitors daily. But citizens are unhappy with the current state of affairs at the market. "The first thing a person notices about the market is thestench as

Mars explorers could use complicated mechanical systems to produce oxygen and filter waste, and eat food carried from earth. Or they could just save a lot of hassle and plant crops. A model of Martian gravity's effects on water flow, nutrient dynamics and root-feeding microbes suggests it's possible to farm in the Red Planet's soil.
Growing plants in soil on Mars might seem old-fashioned for those raised on the futuristic prospect of hydroponic or aeroponic agriculture, in which