July 8, 2015
New Delhi: Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen on Tuesday expressed skepticism about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of secularism, asserting he would like to see "more action" in reaching out to the minorities.
Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen on Tuesday expressed skepticism about Modi's idea of secularism.
July 8, 2015
AUSTRALIA – Marcus Stoinis, an allrounder playing for Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers in Australia's domestic circuit, matched a rare feat on Wednesday as he hit National Indigenous Squad's medium-pacer for six sixes in an over.
Australia’s Marcus Stoinis hits six sixes in an over© Getty Images
July 8, 2015
NEW DELHI – Last week, certain malicious revisions were made to Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page from an IP address that belonged to the state-run National Informatics Centre (NIC).
July 7, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.
July 7, 2015
I spent much of this spring obsessed with a question: Could the United States and Russia stumble into war, perhaps even nuclear war?
Results of survey on risks of war. (Jay Ulfelder)
July 7, 2015
NEW DELHI – An open war broke out in the BJP on Monday as Union Water Resources Minister and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti fired a barrage of accusations at Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over discrepancies in the Vyapam scam . She feared for her own life, she said. Over 40 deaths have been linked to the scam so far.
July 6, 2015
LONDON – The Indo-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis stormed into the women's doubles quarter-finals at the Wimbledon Championships on Friday by beating the 16th-seeded Spanish team of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-4, 6-3 in just 66 minutes.
July 6, 2015
Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space: alien microscopic life.
An image taken by Rosetta's Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows part of the lander, in a photo released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on November 13, 2014
July 6, 2015
NEW DELHI: With an eye on boosting strategic, economic and energy ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel from July 6 to 13 to five Central Asian countries as well as Russia where he will attend the summits of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
July 6, 2015
ATHENS — Greek voters on Sunday gave their government a desperately needed victory in its showdown with European creditors as the country decisively rejected a bailout proposal that officials here had scorned as “blackmail.”
