May 26, 2014
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India along with his key colleagues in the Cabinet.
President Pranab Mukherjee administers oath to Narendra Modi as the 15th Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
May 26, 2014
CHENNAI: Pilots continue to turn up drunk for work despite restrictions and tests. Between 2009 and February 2014, a total of 165 pilots across the country were found to have high blood alcohol levels during checks, reveal the answers to an RTI application filed by TOI.
May 26, 2014
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan for a surprise visit on Sunday and made clear that the U.S. will likely maintain a limited role here even after its combat mission ends this year and America’s longest war comes to a close.
U.S. President Barack Obama.
May 26, 2014
In a historic feat for Indian mountaineering, 13-year-old Malavath Purna on Sunday became the youngest female climber to scale the Mount Everest.
Malavath Poorna and Sadhanapalli Anand Kumar, students of the A.P. Social Welfare Residential School, after having reached 21,300 ft on way to scaling Mount Everest (29,035 feet).
May 25, 2014
In a goodwill gesture, Pakistan on Sunday freed 151 Indian fishermen, a day ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to India to attend Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
May 25, 2014
Beijing, CHINA – A replica of Egypt's iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state media said Sunday.
May 25, 2014
MATHURA: The invitation extended to Nawaz Sharif for Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony has not gone down well with the widow of martyred Indian soldier Hemraj, who on Sunday demanded that the Pakistan premier either bring back her husband's head or condemn the barbarous killing.
May 25, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Kings XI Punjab 119 for 3 (Miller 47*, Vohra 47) beat Delhi Daredevils 115 (Pietersen 58, Awana 2-15) by seven wickets
Parvinder Awana celebrates the wicket of Dinesh Karthik at PCA stadium in on Sunday.
May 25, 2014
GOLETA, California — A man whose son was among the victims killed in a shooting rampage near a California university quaked with grief and rage Saturday as he described his "lost and broken" family and the proliferation of guns he believes led to his son's death.
May 25, 2014
For the first time, NASA has released a “Global Selfie” created by combining over 36,000 pictures clicked by individual people from more than 113 countries and regions.
This screenshot from the NASA site shows the “Global Selfie” Earth mosaic containing more than 36,000 individual photographs.
