October 6, 2015
CHICAGO: An Indian-American IT professional has been appointed the senior vice president and chief information officer of a US-based nonprofit corporation that provides aid to needy college students.
October 6, 2015
NEW DELHI: Vehicle manufacturers, particularly cars, cannot escape complying with the best international standards for safety from 2017 onwards, heavy industries secretary Rajan Katoch said on Monday indicating that the industry should get ready for this.
October 6, 2015
BRUSSELS: Nato on Tuesday rejected Moscow's explanation that its warplanes violated the airspace of alliance member Turkey at the weekend by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria.
October 6, 2015
LONDON: Britain secretly obtained vast amounts of communications data from Pakistan to identify terrorists by hacking into routers in the country made by an American firm, according to US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
October 6, 2015
New Delhi: Former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Monday claimed that a US delegation led by former US presidential candidate John McCain had met him in the aftermath of 26/11 terror attacks expressing apprehensions that India may carry out surgical air strikes at the headquarters of terror outfits JuD and LeT near Lahore.
October 6, 2015
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday termed "unfortunate" the lynching of a man over beef rumours in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri and appealed to the people to maintain communal harmony.
October 5, 2015
SYRACUSE – The co-pilot of an American Airlines flight landed the plane Monday morning after the pilot died during the trip, according to an airline official.
In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo, an American Airlines jet takes off from Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport.
October 5, 2015
London: A giant cake baked in Italy that measures over 16 metres long and weighs more than 1,000 kg has set the Guinness record for the world's largest cake sculpture.
The cake, measuring 16.46 metres long by 13.94 metres wide, was decorated with a map of Italy and its most famous landmarks, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Alps.
October 5, 2015
GERMANY – The number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year will be as high as 1.5 million - almost double the previous estimate, German media report.
Most migrants get to Bavaria via Austria, Hungary and the Balkans
October 5, 2015
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and McKinsey & Company released a report containing the latest digest of what seems like a bottomless trove of sad data about women at work.
"Women in the Workplace" sourced data from 118 companies and almost 30,000 employees, hoping to illuminate why inequalities persist between men and women in corporate spaces.
