Japanese students help build homes in Uttarakhand
February 28, 2014
They say they want to aid the suffering in flood-affected parts of Uttarakhand
Japanese students with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat.
UK, US spies stored millions of Yahoo webcam images: Report
February 28, 2014
LONDON: Britain's communications spy agency GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.
39 cockroach species discovered in US, Mexico
February 28, 2014
Researchers have revised a genus of cockroach in the poorly studied family Corydiidae for the first time since 1920
Scientists have discovered 39 new species of endemic desert cockroaches from the south-western US region and Mexico.
India’s Infrastructure splurge might be too little, too late
February 28, 2014
Despite fast-tracked approvals for infrastructure-related projects, red tape, inflation and pre-existing infrastructural problems will hamper capital development and growth, say experts
Kerry decries ‘new isolationism’, says US acts like poor nation
February 27, 2014
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry decried what he called a "new isolationism" in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation.
US Secretary of State John Kerry
E-commerce in India to touch $60 billion by 2023
February 27 2014
MUMBAI: India's e-commerce sector is expected to have 7 per cent share of country's retail market amounting to $60 billion by 2023, a senior industry official said.
"By 2023, e-commerce in India will have 7 per cent share of retail amounting to $60 billion dollars," Technopak Advisors chairman Arvind Singhal said at 'eTailing India Conference and Exhibition 2014' here.
Bring on Kohli, we have Malinga, says Sri Lanka vice-captain Chandimal
February 27, 2014
The Sri Lankan vice-captain is confident that Malinga can put the brakes on Kohli’s blistering form with the bat
SC stays release of Rajiv Gandhi assassins
February 27, 2014
Supreme Court stays release of four Rajiv Gandhi killers and posts the matter to 6 March; the top court had earlier stopped release of four convicts by the Tamil Nadu government
Shape up or ship out, Infy tells non-performers
February 27, 2014
Days after N R Narayana Murthy said non-performers who draw high salaries will be asked to leave, Infosys says poor performers will be given two months’ training to get into shape after which they will undergo an appraisal
Lok Sabha elections: Pew Research Center survey suggests crushing loss for...
February 27, 2014
NEW DELHI: Two months before the general elections, a new US poll suggests that the ruling party Congress may suffer one of their worst defeats in the country's 67-year history.
There is widespread agreement that the Gandhis, India’s dominant political family for most of its history, will suffer a crushing defeat.
