India

DELHI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- The first solar eclipse or Surya Grahan of 2011 is taking place today and the stargazers are quite excited about this celestial event.

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- India's nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-I was tested with significant on Thursday at the Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa, officials have confirmed.

NEW DELHI - The already-troubled Commonwealth Games is facing a new crisis - reports that up to 15 swimmers on the England and Australia teams have a stomach virus potentially caused by the suspect quality of water at the aquatics center in New Delhi.

WASHINGTON - A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal community in the foothills of the Himalayas.

DENVER - The quest for top honors in American craft brewing has come here, to a hotel ballroom marked "restricted access." More than 140 bottles of American-style India Pale Ale sit stacked in donated Bud Light and King Cobra boxes, labors of hop love brewed by a cast of characters that includes an organic chemist, a man with a grim reaper tattoo and a guy who wants to make a beer that tastes like orange sherbet mixed with hot fudge ice cream.