June 19, 2015
NEW DELHI – Lalit Modi may have finally done himself in! Each of the missiles he fired willy nilly at his former friends and eternal foes are headed right back in his direction. Sushma Swaraj may be embarrassed, Vasundhara Raje may be on her way out, but Lalit Modi may well end up alone and in jail, as the biggest casualty of this latest political scandal.
June 18, 2015
The moon is surrounded by a permanent dust cloud likely caused by comet particle collisions, new observations reveal.
An artist’s conception of dust in the moon’s exosphere (thin atmosphere). The color shows the amount of material ejected from the surface, with red representing the highest quantity.
June 18, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Bangladesh 307 (Tamim 60, Sarkar 54, Shakib 52) beat India 228 (Rohit 60, Mustafizur 5-50) by 79 runs
Mustafizur Rahman took 5 for 50 on debut to smash India's chances of chasing 307 © Associated Press
June 18, 2015
Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency on June 25, senior BJP leader L K Advani, who was on the front lines of the fight against it and was jailed for 19 months, remembers it as the crime that has not yet been confessed to.
L K Advani at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday.
June 18, 2015
Following the heave over the ban of Maggi Noodles, Indian social media is currently discussing the ban on a series of standard flavoring ingredients of Starbucks India by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.
With the spread of a hash tag carrying "starbucks" Facebook users seem to be more concerned about the 'danger of MNC presence in the Indian food market'.
June 17, 2015
Washington, DC – Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has effectively laid the foundation for India's rapid transformation and purposeful diplomacy leading to new terms of India's engagement with the US, according to Indian Ambassador Arun K. Singh.
June 17, 2015
New Delhi: Is Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan becoming collateral damage of the spike in Maoist insurgency? The pace of building toilets, key to ending the problem of open defecation, is slower in Naxal insurgency affected states.
June 17, 2015
NEW DELHI – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says there are 16 cases pending against Lalit Modi, former chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL), for violating the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and its adjunct, the Anti-Money Laundering Act. In 15 of them, show-cause notices have been issued by the government.
June 17, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Graces the Event
June 16, 2015
United Nations: Indian peacekeepers faced allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in three separate cases between 2010 and 2013, according to a new UN report.
