TDP miffed at BJP’s weak candidates for AP state polls
April 17, 2014
Chandrababu is said to have expressed his displeasure over the BJP's choice of candidates in constituencies like Ichchapuram, Rajahmundry (Urban), Kaikaluru and Guntakal
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu
Pope Francis washes feet of disabled, including elderly Muslim
April 17, 2014
ROME: Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen elderly and disabled people including a Libyan Muslim during an Easter ritual in Rome on Thursday imitating Jesus Christ's humility.
Pope Francis
US calls for more investment-friendly Indian government
April 17, 2014
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday urged the Indian government that emerges from ongoing elections to follow economic policies that encourage investment, saying Washington would like to see bilateral trade grow to $500 billion a year.
Nasa images suggest that Saturn is about to ‘give birth’ to...
April 17, 2014
LONDON: New images from Nasa's Cassini-Huygens space probe suggest that Saturn may be in the process of forming a new moon, which has already been affectionately named by scientists as "Peggy".
Sikhs Honor Heroic Officer Shot in Gurudwara Attack
April 17, 2014
By Geeta Goindi
Children performing on Vaisakhi at the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation in Rockville, MD
IPL 7: Bright start for Knight Riders
April 16, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Kolkata 163 for 5 (Kallis 72, Pandey 64, Malinga 4-23) beat Mumbai 122 for 7 (Narine 4-20) by 41 runs
Fine show by Kallis, Pandey and Narine ; Malinga’s effort goes in vain
Muslims safe in India: Salim Khan
April 16, 2014
MUMBAI: Bollywood scriptwriter Salim Khan feels Muslims need to put behind the memories of 2002 Gujarat riots and move forward while insisting that the community finds itself safe in the country.
Bollywood scriptwriter Salim Khan
Jayalalithaa accepts Karunanidhi’s challenge for debate on Cauvery issue
April 16, 2014
CHENNAI: Says the DMK chief should make up his mind on accepting her challenge and announce it publicly “lest he himself accepts that he had betrayed” the people
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa addresses an election meeting in Anaicut on Tuesday.
French scientists lose 2300 samples of deadly SARS virus
April 16, 2014
A prestigious French institute has misplaced about 2,349 vials containing samples of the potentially deadly SARS virus.
The Paris-based Institut Pasteur, which was among the first to isolate HIV in the 1980s, admitted to have lost the vials in 29 boxes.
Despite taking help from France’s drug and health safety agency, the institute has been unable to find the samples.
2 dead as South Korea ferry with 476 passengers sinks
April 16, 2014
More than 100 people were still unaccounted on Wednesday several hours after a ferry carrying 476, most of them high school students, sank in cold waters off South Korea’s southern coast, killing at least two and injuring 14, officials said.
