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Songjiang Shimao Hotel is a resort that includes extreme sports facilities, visitor centre and a five-star luxury hotel with some levels of the hotel situated under water. The unique resort is being built into an abandoned, water-filled quarry. A naturally-lit internal atrium incorporates the existing rock face, with its waterfalls and green vegetation. The design solution for the resort includes the use of green roofing and exploiting the site’s geothermal heat to generate electricity

India has successfully test-fired Agni-V, its first Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Agni-V is capable of reaching deep into Asia and Europe, a move that would bring the emerging power into a small club of nations with intercontinental defense capabilities. India has a no-first-use policy and says its nuclear weapons and missiles are for defensive purposes only. Here are 15 things to know about the missile: #1  With the launch of Agni-V, India will enter the exclusive Inter-Continental

The Startup Genome, a research firm which collects data on what makes start-ups successful has recently released a list of the Top 25 startup ecosystems in the world. Bangalore, at number nine is in the top 10, and Mumbai at number 20 is the other city, that carries the flag for India in the elite list. No: 1 Silicon Valley, United States No: 2 New York City, United States No: 3 London, UK No:4 Toronto, Canada No: 5 Tel Aviv, Israel No: 6, Los Angeles,

 Miners mine for gold inside a tunnel in an illegal gold mine in Poboya in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.  A miner, Halim, 35, tries to break stones containing gold materials in a tunnel at the site of Poboya.  Miners dig at the ground to find stones containing gold material. Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world by population.  A manual gold smelting process is seen in Poboya.  Miners carry sacks of stones containing gold material.  A

Ratings agency Standard & Poor (S&P) recently downgraded India’s outlook from stable to negative. This comes as no surprise as the macroeconomic indicators have been suggesting that all is not well for the past two years. Yahoo! Finance looks at the factors that contributed to the negative downgrade, and also dissects how the downgrade, can further exacerbate the situation. Text: Nelson Vinod Moses. Pictures: Getty Images.  Fiscal deficit: India has not been fiscally prudent