Nationwide outrage over journalist’s gang rape in Mumbai, Centre seeks report
August 23, 2013
NEW DELHI: The gang rape of a young photojournalist in Mumbai triggered an avalanche of outrage across the country on Friday and condemned as despicable and shameful stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi that led to nationwide protests.
50 years after, Martin Luther King’s ‘Dream’ still not realized in...
August 23, 2013
NEW YORK: Fifty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech, nearly half of those who responded to a new poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
US tech giants face uncertain future
August 22, 2013
Outsiders often think of Silicon Valley as a constantly changing landscape, a place where fortunes rise and fall with the next great idea. Now some of the technology industry's biggest names are finding out that once you fall behind, it is pretty hard to catch up.
India a traveler’s heaven, a woman’s hell: American student
August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON: Back from a study trip to India last year, a Chicago university student recalls it as a visit full of adventures and beauty but also relentless sexual harassment, groping and worse.
US soldier Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in WikiLeaks...
August 22, 2013
FORT MEADE ( Maryland, US): Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history by providing files to Wikileaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks case: Manning sentenced to 35 years imprisonment
India’s Independence Day Celebrated at Embassy Residence
August 22, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Indian Ambassador Mrs. Nirupama Rao addressing the gathering at her Residence on India’s 67th Independence Day. Photo credit: Embassy of India, Washington
Rupee could touch 70 per dollar in a month: Deutsche Bank
August 21, 2013
MUMBAI: The Indian rupee could touch 70 against the US dollar in a month or so, although some revival is expected in the currency by the end of the year, Deutsche Bank said in a report on Wednesday.
Chinese troops intrude into Arunachal, stay for over two days
August 21, 2013
NEW DELHI: In yet another face-off with Indian soldiers, Chinese troops had come more than 20 kilometres inside Indian territory in Chaglagam area of Arunachal Pradesh on August 13 and stayed there for over two days.
Riches to rags: Ex-editor Sunita Naik offered shelter by Mumbai couple
August 20, 2013
MUMBAI: Sixty-five-year-old Sunita Naik, former editor of Marathi magazine 'Grihalaxmi', who was living on the pavement outside a local gurdwara here for the past two months, has been offered shelter by a couple.
RBI intervenes; rupee recovers from 64.13, stocks too rebound
August 20, 2013
MUMBAI: After heavy battering, the rupee, stocks and bonds on Tuesday showed some signs of a fightback with RBI intervening in the market with massive selling of dollars as the domestic currency breached the 64-mark.
For the first time ever, the rupee slipped below the 100-mark against the British pound.
