Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may propose another candidate for the presidential elections in 2012, an official said. “There are three equal scenarios – first, Medvedev; second, Putin; and third, some third person whose candidacy has already been coordinated by them (the president and prime minister,” said Sergei Mironov, former speaker of the Russian Federation Council. Mironov currently heads the State Duma …

Human beings will meet creatures from outer space within the next 20 years, a top Russian scientist has said. “The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms. Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years,” Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. Interfax news agency said the scientist was speaking at an international …

Forty four people were killed and eight injured after a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crash landed in Russia’s northern republic of Karelia, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Tuesday. The plane en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash landed on a highway one km away from the airport, where it was scheduled to land at 0.04 Moscow time Tuesday. The plane fell apart and burst into flames upon landing. “According to new information, …

Russia will double its production of ballistic missiles from 2013, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday in his annual address to the Russian parliament – his last before legislative elections later this year and presidential elections early next year. “The armed forces will receive new strategic and tactical missile systems, such as RS-24 Yars, Bulava and Iskander M,” Putin said. Speaking to defence sector officials in Siberia inn March, …

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to increase its gas deliveries to Europe by six billion cubic metres for 100 days to disengage volumes of liquefied gas for quake-stricken Japan. “Right now, Gazprom is ready to increase the gas deliveries to Europe by 60 million cubic meters per day, which corresponds to about 40 tonnes of liquefied gas. The liquefied gas disengaged by the move will be sent to …

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed the ratification of a new US-Russia arms reduction deal by the American Senate but said it will take some time for the Russian lawmakers to study the amendments to the treaty. The US Senate Wednesday ratified the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, with a vote of 71 for and 26 against. The agreement will come into force after ratification by both houses of the Russian parliament. …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will Wednesday take a decision on the delayed rocket launch, meant to put an advanced communications satellite into orbit, after getting results of tests on a leaking engine valve. “The tests are not over. They are continuing and a decision on the launch may be known Wednesday afternoon,” S. Satish, a director at ISRO,said. An ISRO official told IANS on condition of anonymity: “Tests will be conducted …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has postponed Monday’s rocket launch, meant to put an advanced communications satellite into orbit, following the detection of a leak in its Russian-made cryogenic engine. The rocket, called a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV), was to carry GSAT-5P, an advanced communications satellite meant to retire an earlier one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV and weather services. …

At least 11 people, including eight crew members and three labourers, were killed when a Khartoum-bound Russian cargo plane crashed near the Dalmiya road in Karachi minutes after taking-off Sunday. “The plane took-off from Karachi terminal around 1.45 a.m. and crashed at an under-construction site of a naval complex in Gulistan-i-Jamal, just after two-three minutes,” Samaa TV reported. “The pilot had given last message to control tower that he …

Promos of SAAWARIYA and OM SHANTI OM may be the talk of the town but the select few who have got a chance to catch the promo of NO SMOKING continue to be in a state of shock. The first look of NO SMOKING has turned out to be absolute hard hitting and creates an impact which doesn't fail to jolt a viewer. Focused entirely on the character of John Abraham who is first unwilling to quit smoking and later encounters number of well wishers who want him …