February 16, 2015
NEW DELHI, INDIA – Within days of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing Delhi Assembly elections to Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Narendra Modi government has hiked petrol price by 82 paise per litre and diesel by 61 paise, reversing the declining trend of last six months.
February 15, 2015
NEW DELHI, INDIA – Sri Lanka's new president arrived in India Sunday on his first foreign trip in office, trying to rebuild ties hit by tensions over growing Chinese influence on the strategically located island.
February 15, 2015
The state sex ratio: 879 women per 1,000 men (As per 2011 census)
Haryana’s abysmal sex ratio was the reason Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose the state to launch his government’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme last month. In that ratio of 879 women per 1,000 men, there is one factor though that has gone almost unnoticed: the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005.
February 15, 2015
Brief Scorecard: India 300 for 7 (Kohli 107, Raina 74, Dhawan 73, Sohail 5-55) beat Pakistan 224 (Misbah 76, Shehzad 47, Shami 4-35) by 76 runs
February 14, 2015
WASHINGTON: Apple has a secret lab working on the creation of an Apple-branded electric car, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Apple has designed a vehicle that looks like a minivan, the newspaper quoted one person as saying
February 14, 2015
Pervez Musharraf has said that under his regime, Pakistan had tried to undermine the Afghan government led by ex-president Hamid Karzai for helping “India stab Pakistan in the back”.
February 14, 2015
The Cricket World Cup is back - the tournament where teams who have been playing among themselves since forever will play among themselves, again. The tournament has 18 fewer teams than the FIFA World Cup but is still somehow almost two weeks longer.
February 14, 2015
MADISON, Alabama — An Alabama police officer has been charged with assault and will be fired after authorities say he badly injured an Indian man whom he stopped to question as the man was walking through his son's neighborhood. The man has filed a lawsuit, and the FBI has opened an investigation.
February 14, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Australia 342 for 9 (Finch 135, Maxwell 66, Bailey 55, Finn 5-71) beat England 231 (Taylor 98*, Marsh 5-33) by 111 runs
Aaron Finch gets a pat from Glenn Maxwell for his match-winning knock, Australia v England, Group A, World Cup 2015, Melbourne, February 14, 2015
February 13, 2015
Mumbai: IndiGo today said it was not in"talks" with any airline including Qatar Airways for a stake sale, a month after the gulf carrier's chief executive Akbar Al Baker expressed his desire to invest in the Indian company.
"Indigo is not even in talks with Qatar...the question does not arise. It’s kind of them (Qatar) to say that...
