Kudos to the PM for putting Pakistan on a 72-hour deadline...
January 8, 2016
NEW DELHI – Good on India. Good on Modi. He has moved the envelope to the edge of the table not so much by telling Pakistan to show the intent but by placing on it a deadline of 72 hours.
Dow closes nearly 400 points lower as stocks enter correction zone
January 7, 2016
NEW YORK – Stocks closed sharply lower Thursday as China news overnight and low oil prices renewed concerns about global economic growth.
The Dow lost 392 points, or 2.32 percent, ending more than 10 percent below its 52-week intraday high, in correction territory. The Nasdaq composite shed 3 percent, also in correction territory.
100-year-old south Mumbai chawls to get a new deal
January 7, 2016
The project has been stalled for over a decade for a range of reasons
J-K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed dies at AIIMS, Delhi
January 7, 2016
SRINAGAR – Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died on Thursday morning after he was flown to AIIMS on December 24 and later shifted to the ICU in a critical state. Mufti Mohammad Sayees expired at AIIMS early morning, PDP sources told Hindustan Times.
‘Carcinogens now even in samples considered safest’: Maneka Gandhi advises against...
January 7, 2016
How many of us know what is being fed to animals that give us milk? It is time we did because lack on control over what they are fed is turning milk toxic in India.
Congress sends health law repeal to Obama for first time
January 6, 2016
WASHINGTON — The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a presidential election year but inviting a certain veto.
Alabama chief justice says same-sex marriage licenses should not be issued
January 6, 2016
ALABAMA – The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state's probate judges on Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year legalizing gay marriage.
Record-tying El Nino’s storms hitting parched California
January 6, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Californians who have sharply reduced water use during their four-year drought were warned against reverting to old habits Tuesday as the first of several storms spawned by a record-tying El Nino began drenching the state.
Record-breaking Mumbai school cricketer scores 1,000 runs in an innings
January 5, 2016
Brief Scorecard: KC Gandhi English School 1465 for 3 dec (Dhanawade 1009*, Aakash 173, Patil 137) beat Arya Gurukul 31 (Patil 5-3) and 52 (8-16) by an innings and 1382 runs
15-year-old Mumbai boy scores 1,000 runs.
Govt failed to avert attack despite having info: AAP
January 5, 2016
NEW DELHI – Questioning NDA government’s “inconsistent" Pakistan policy, AAP today attacked the Narendra Modi-led dispensation over the Pathankot attack and asked why the government could not avert loss of soldiers’ lives when it had "pinpointed" information about the plot.
