UK hacked routers in Pakistan to identify terrorists: Snowden
October 6, 2015
LONDON: Britain secretly obtained vast amounts of communications data from Pakistan to identify terrorists by hacking into routers in the country made by an American firm, according to US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
India may have considered carrying out surgical air strikes post 26/11...
October 6, 2015
New Delhi: Former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Monday claimed that a US delegation led by former US presidential candidate John McCain had met him in the aftermath of 26/11 terror attacks expressing apprehensions that India may carry out surgical air strikes at the headquarters of terror outfits JuD and LeT near Lahore.
Indian Union Home Minister appeals to countrymen to maintain communal harmony
October 6, 2015
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday termed "unfortunate" the lynching of a man over beef rumours in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri and appealed to the people to maintain communal harmony.
Co-pilot lands American Airlines plane after pilot dies during flight
October 5, 2015
SYRACUSE – The co-pilot of an American Airlines flight landed the plane Monday morning after the pilot died during the trip, according to an airline official.
In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo, an American Airlines jet takes off from Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport.
World’s largest cake baked in Italy weighs over 1,000 kg
October 5, 2015
London: A giant cake baked in Italy that measures over 16 metres long and weighs more than 1,000 kg has set the Guinness record for the world's largest cake sculpture.
The cake, measuring 16.46 metres long by 13.94 metres wide, was decorated with a map of Italy and its most famous landmarks, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Alps.
Germany ‘facing 1.5 million migrants’
October 5, 2015
GERMANY – The number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year will be as high as 1.5 million - almost double the previous estimate, German media report.
Most migrants get to Bavaria via Austria, Hungary and the Balkans
New Data Explains Why You Can’t Get That Promotion
October 5, 2015
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and McKinsey & Company released a report containing the latest digest of what seems like a bottomless trove of sad data about women at work.
"Women in the Workplace" sourced data from 118 companies and almost 30,000 employees, hoping to illuminate why inequalities persist between men and women in corporate spaces.
T20 Cricket: South Africa overcome crowd trouble to clinch series
October 5, 2015
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 96 for 4 (Duminy 30*, Ashwin 3-24) beat India 92 (Raina 22, Rohit 22, Morkel 3-12) by six wickets
Farhaan Behardien and JP Duminy were made to wait to clinch the series - Associated Press
Azam Khan seeks UN intervention into ‘miseries’ of Muslims in India
October 5, 2015
UTTRA PRADESH – Amid outcry over lynching of a 50-year-old Muslim man in Dadri, senior Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan today sought intervention of United Nations to look into the "miseries" of minorities in India.
Anjula Acharia-Bath: The angel investor propelling Priyanka Chopra’s American dream
October 4, 2015
It took her more than five years, but with Priyanka Chopra’s debut on ABC’s new drama Quantico, which opened in the US on 27 September and launched in India on 3 October, Anjula Acharia-Bath finally achieved her goal—to get a desi artist into mainstream America.
A file photo of Anjula Acharia-Bath. Photo: The New York Times
