On July 2, 1918, towards the end of WW-1, a British ship named ‘SS Shirala‘ sank in the English Channel. Its ‘killer’ was the dreaded German submarine UB-57, commanded by Oberleutnant Johannes Lohs who destroyed dozens of enemy ships with a combined capacity of over 1.5 lakh tonnes before he died aged 29. The Shirala…
NEW DELHI: A gold watch discovered on the wealthiest passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic was sold for an astonishing £1.17 million ($1.46 million) at an auction in England. Henry Aldridge & Son, the auctioneers, declared this to be the highest amount ever fetched by an item associated with the infamous 1912 tragedy.The winning bid, placed…
A painting by Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century sold for 30 million euros ($32 million) on Wednesday, setting a record price for an Austrian auction despite questions surrounding its provenance.Hong Kong gallery HomeArt snapped up the “Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser” (“Portrait of Miss Lieser“), which was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist’s family…
The first model of the USS Enterprise, the starship that appeared in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” TV series, has been returned to Eugene Roddenberry Jr, the son of the creator of the series, decades after it went missing. “After a long journey, she’s home,” Roddenberry wrote on social media Thursday.For die-hard…
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai on Thursday sought stakeholders’ views on auction of three new spectrum bands in higher frequency range that will make available around 4,000 megahertz radiowaves for mobile services.The regulator has sought views on pricing, allocation norms, and payment terms, among others, for spectrum in frequency bands of 37–37.5 GHz, 37.5–40 GHz…
