Ratan Tata throws his weight behind mobile payments platform Paytm
March 13, 2015
Ratan Tata's tryst with India's burgeoning consumer internet space continues. The chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has now thrown his weight behind mobile payments and commerce platform Paytm.
Modi’s first reform win: Parliament approves long-pending insurance bill
March 13, 2015
New Delhi: Parliament on Thursday night approved the NDA government's first major economic reform measure as the long-pending bill providing for raising foreign investment cap to 49 percent in insurance was passed by Rajya Sabha after main opposition Congress and some other parties came on board.
Iran’s leader: Fall of U.S. ‘political ethics’ highlighted by GOP letter
March 12, 2015
Iran’s supreme leader expressed concern Thursday that nuclear talks with the United States could face new hurdles, saying a letter of warning from Republican senators signaled a “collapse of political ethics” in Washington.
World Cup 2015: Will only rest a player if there is...
March 12, 2015
Auckland, NEW ZEALNAD: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes in giving his cricketers long rope and even after sealing a quarter-final berth is averse to changes in playing XI for their next Cricket World Cup match against Zimbabwe on Saturday unless there is some serious injury to any player.
Sonia Gandhi leads Cong’s solidarity march to Manmohan’s house
March 12, 2015
NEW DELHI: The entire top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi on Thursday took to the streets to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been summoned as accused in a coal scam case, with the party President calling it "outrageous".
Indian millionaires are fleeing the country
March 11, 2015
India’s millionaires do not want to live in India.
India's Super Rich
Indian woman dental student found dead in California
March 11, 2015
Los Angeles: A 37-year-old Indian woman dental student has been found dead in Albany, the US city's first homicide victim since 2004, officials said today.
Randhir Kaur was found dead in her apartment in Kains Avenue about 4 pm on Monday in Albany, California State.
She was a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) dental student, officials said.
Officers found Kaur on the floor of her apartment, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Coalgate: Politicians react to summons issued to former PM Manmohan Singh...
March 11, 2015
New DELHI – Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary PC Parakh and three others were today summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8.
Pak tried secret deal with al-Qaeda as terror group targeted India
March 11, 2015
TOP Pakistani politician Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab province and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s brother, as well as the country’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had attempted to negotiate a secret peace deal with al-Qaeda in the summer of 2010, documents filed by US prosecutors in a federal court in New York last month have revealed.
Solar plane aiming for first round-the-world flight lands in India
March 11, 2015
Ahmedabad, INDIA – The first round-the-world solar-powered flight landed in India on Wednesday, the second leg of a 35,000 km journey seeking to demonstrate that flying long distances fuelled by renewable energy is possible.
