US President Obama to return to India, this time as chief...
November 21, 2014
Obama and Modi at the White House earlier this year.
At court toilets, it is either hold up or hold your...
November 21, 2014
The betel-stained, muck-filled washrooms of Kurla Magistrate Court.
India to allow foreign firms mine and sell coal: coal secretary
November 21, 2014
New Delhi: India will allow locally registered foreign firms to mine and sell coal when commercial mining is permitted as part of the opening up of the nationalized industry after four decades, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup told Reuters.
Doomsday pope warns man’s greed will destroy world
November 21, 2014
ROME, ITALY – Pope Francis warned Thursday that planet earth would not forgive the abuse of its resources for profit, urging the world's leaders to rein in their greed and help the hungry – or risk a doomsday scenario in which nature would exact revenge.
Swedish court rejects Assange appeal against arrest order
November 20, 2014
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against a Swedish arrest order. Assange, stuck in Ecuador's London embassy, is wanted for questioning on alleged sexual misconduct, but currently faces no charges.
G20 Summit: How Narendra Modi turned Australian Parliament House into a...
November 20, 2014
AUSTRALIA: You got the sense there was something about Modi when world leaders had their official handshakes with Tony Abbott at the G20 summit.
While the other leaders offered brief handshakes and stiff smiles, India's Prime Minister strode out of the wings to greet his Australian counterpart with an exuberant hug.
Unholy acts & controversies of some ‘holy’ men
November 20, 2014
New Delhi: India is home to more than 90 per cent of the god men and god women in the World. The self-appointed god men often make it to headlines mostly for the wrong reasons. Their crimes range from petty to heinous. Most of these god men and women establish their own sect and attract the devotees. Their following is also very substantial.
What Indian MPs want: Companion tickets, loans, phones in their wish...
November 20, 2014
NEW DELHI: Four years ago, the members of Parliament had given themselves a 300% hike in salaries and managed to double their allowances. But that clearly wasn’t enough for them.
Android-based phones and gaming devices
US has 450,000 illegal immigrants from India
November 20, 2014
Washington: As President Barack Obama mulls executive action to give relief from deportation to some of the 11.2 million illegal immigrants in the US, a new report said about 450,000 of them are from India.
In fact, India is the fourth top source country of unauthorized immigrants after top-ranked Mexico, according to the report based on the 2012 census, released Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre, a Washington think tank.
N.S.A. Phone Data Collection Could Go On, Even if a Law...
November 20, 2014
WASHINGTON — A little-known provision of the Patriot Act, overlooked by lawmakers and administration officials alike, appears to give President Obama a possible way to keep the National Security Agency’s bulk phone records program going indefinitely — even if Congress allows the law on which it is based to expire next year.
