September 16, 2015
Greenpeace activists coming down in ropes from their office building in Bengaluru to unfurl banners related to the account freezing by the Union government.
September 16, 2015
In what could be a weighty problem for Air India, the carrier is planning to ground 125 cabin crew for being overweight, according to reports.
September 16, 2015
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said on Tuesday that conservatives could only win in 2016 by abandoning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Sane conservatives need to stop enabling him,” Jindal wrote in an op-ed published by CNN.
“They need to stop praising him, stop being afraid of him and stop treating him rationally,” he said.
September 15, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
President Obama awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal to celebrated Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri (top left). First Lady Michelle Obama and some 200 guests attended the ceremony in the ornate East Room of the White House
September 15, 2015
Washington: US President Barack Obama has determined India and its three neighbors, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, among a list of 22 nations that are major illicit drug producing or transit countries.
September 15, 2015
NEW DELHI – Amid reports of more hospitals denying admission to dengue patients coming in, the death toll due to the disease in the national capital has gone up to 11 on Tuesday.
In the latest incident, a 29-year-old woman succumbed to the disease shortly after getting admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in Delhi.
September 15, 2015
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given a go-ahead for the three-match Twenty20 series promoted by legendary duo of Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne in the United States of America.
Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne having a chat – Getty Images
September 15, 2015
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday inaugurated five 'Pakistan-China Friendship Tunnels' built at the cost of about USD 275 million to restore a strategic road link to China via Gilgit-Baltistan.
The tunnels are part of a 24 kilometre realignment project which has been completed in collaboration with China in over three years.
September 15, 2015
The secret files related to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose reveal that there is no official proof about his alleged death in Taipei plane crash in 1945. In a letter to Netaji's family in 1949, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had said that he could still be alive and the Indian intelligence agencies also knew about this.
Septemebr 15, 2015
In a striking example of the law of unintended consequences, a popular automotive convenience feature, push-button start, can lead to accidental death from carbon-monoxide poisoning. A simple technical fix—an attention-grabbing warning audible from outside the car—could head off the problem before it happens.
