Yearly Archives: 2014

April 8, 2014

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry agreed on Monday to meet with top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in a new push to calm tensions in eastern Ukraine, as the White House threatened further sanctions if Moscow intervenes.

April 7, 2014

LOS ANGELES: Beloved US child star and comic actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood's most enduring denizens whose career began in the silent film era, died on Sunday. He was 93.

Hollywood's comic actor Mickey Rooney, died on Sunday. He was 93.

April 7, 2014

BEIJING: As India's general elections began on Monday from the northeastern states, Chinese official media described the remote region as the most "neglected" area in the country.

April 7, 2014

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the men’s Team of the Tournament for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh, with India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its captain.

April 7, 2014

MANILA: An Italian diplomat detained in the Philippines is being investigated for alleged child abuse after he was found in the company of three boys, the government said Monday.

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said police arrested Daniele Bosio at a water fun park near Manila at the weekend following a tip-off from a local child rights group.

"He is now in detention while his case is undergoing preliminary investigation with the fiscal (prosecutor)," de Lima told AFP.

April 7, 2014

Though the manifesto focused on economy, ending policy paralysis and curbing corruption, contentious issues like Ram temple, abrogation of Art 370, enactment of Uniform Civil Code have been included

April 7, 2014

WASHINGTON: Welcome the arrival of newborn stars in our galaxy. According to a thrilling research, gas from another galaxy is hitting our own, triggering the birth of bright new stars and adding fresh lustre to the Milky Way.

For the first time, astronomers have detected stars in an enormous stream of gas shed by the Magellanic Clouds, the two brightest galaxies that orbit our own.

April 7, 2014

MUMBAI: The rupee appreciated by 29 paise to trade at 59.79 against the US dollar in early trade today on selling of the American currency by banks.

Forex dealers said sustained foreign capital inflows also supported the rupee but a lower opening in the domestic equity market and dollar gains against the euro limited the gains.

April 7, 2014

WASHINGTON: "The people of India deeply love you," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared grandly (and questionably) to then President George Bush during a White House meeting in 2008.

Manmohan Singh's portrait is part of a portfolio of 30 world leaders George Bush has painted.

April 6, 2014

Mars will be exactly opposite the sun in the sky in a rare cosmic alignment set to take place Tuesday (April 8).