RBI monetary policy: Don’t expect rate cut, but will Rajan want...
February 1, 2015
Is there still a surprise element in the credit policy to be announced by the RBI this week?
On the face of it the answer is probably no, as the mid-term lowering of rates has set to rest speculation on whether the RBI is convinced that inflation has come down and will remain at the current lower level.
Master communicator at work: Tharoor says of Modi
February 1, 2015
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who only recently earned the party's wrath for praising Narendra Modi, says in the Prime Minister "we are all seeing a master communicator at work" but hit out at BJP for "promoting a nakedly bigoted Hindutva agenda".
Hingis wins Australian Open mixed doubles title with
February 1, 2015
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: Five times grand slam singles winner Martina Hingis won her second Australian Open mixed doubles title as she teamed with India's Leander Paes to beat last year's winners France's Kristina Mladenovic and Canada's Daniel Nestor 6-4 6-3.
‘If my Luck can Benefit the Country, Why Elect Someone Unlucky,’...
February 1, 2015
NEW DELHI: In his second rally in as many days ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tore into the opposition Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, alleging the two parties were competing to tell lies and were in league when it came to conspiring behind the scenes.
ODI Tri Series: Maxwell magic delivers title for Australia
February 1, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Australia 8 for 278 (Maxwell 95, Marsh 60, Faulkner 50*) beat England 166 (Bopara 33, Maxwell 4-46) by 112 runs
Victorious Australian Team
Indian Food – A short history of the samosa
January 30, 2015
Here’s a shocker: our very own samosa was never ours. You read that right. The neatly folded, tightly packed savoury goodness that we thought belonged to South Asian soil actually travelled here all the way from Central Asia centuries ago.
Indian Cricket: More down under than ever before
January 30, 2015
PERTH, AUSTRALIA: England’s three-wicket win in Perth on Friday (January 30) not only knocked India out of the triangular series, but also rounded off India’s worst full tour to Australia.
Though India gained a lot during the Australia tour, they failed to register a single win in eight games.
Pilots Disabled Critical Computers Just Before AirAsia Crash
January 30, 2015
Jakarta, Indonesia – The pilots of AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going out of control shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea, two people with knowledge of the investigation said.
New Saudi king announces major government shake-up
January 30, 2015
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia's new King Salman further cemented his hold on power, with a sweeping shakeup that saw two sons of the late King Abdullah fired, and the heads of intelligence and other key agencies replaced alongside a cabinet shuffle
US considers Taliban ‘an armed insurgency’ not ‘terrorist’ outfit
January 30, 2015
Washington: The US does not consider the Afghan Taliban as a terrorist outfit, describing it as 'an armed insurgency'.
It called the Islamic State as a 'terrorist' group, drawing a controversial distinction between the two outfits.
