Monday, August 3, 1998
Youngest Indian duo on a flying start to aviation records
Commercial pilots Capt Himanshu Pushkarna and Capt Shehzad Khan are all set to undertake a rare flying adventure to create a record. Taking off from New York on August 4, they plan to become the youngest Indians to circumnavigate the globe in a single piston engined Beechcraft B-35 aircraft in 21 days!
Snail mail meets e-mail
You've got to hand it to sheer Indian ingenuity. A month before Microsoft tied up with UK Mail for a paid online post service in March this year, a similar service set up by two US-returned computer geeks in Mumbai was already a month old. The only difference, their service was free.
Site Insight
The nuclear bomb evokes extreme reactions from people. A site which offers a dispassionate view of nuclear history is www.atomicarchive.com.
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