April 23, 2014
India’s stealth frigate INS Shivalik on Wednesday took part in rare drills with Chinese and Pakistan Naval ships in multilateral maritime exercises held off China’s coast to celebrate 65th anniversary of its Navy.
The Indian Naval ship took part in the drills along with 18 ships, seven helicopters and Marine Corps.
April 23, 2014
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.
Although economic growth in the US continues to be as strong, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it.
April 23, 2014
MONTREAL: Almost one-third of Canadians experienced physical or sexual abuse at home during childhood, according to a study that warned on Tuesday of a link to mental disorders and suicide.
"From a public health standpoint, these findings highlight the urgent need to make prevention of child abuse a priority in Canada," Tracie Afifi of the University of Manitoba's psychiatry department said with her coauthors.
April 22, 2014
Cape Town, South Africa: Five Indian-origin people in South Africa are among 54 recipients this year of the prestigious National Order, which would be conferred by the country’s President at the upcoming Freedom Day celebrations on Sunday.
South Africa President Jacob Zuma at a guard of honour in Cape Town, South Africa.
April 22, 2014
NEW DELHI: As Priyanka Gandhi vowed to fight back the allegations against her husband Robert Vadra, Congress on pulled out all the stops in his defence, slamming Narendra Modi for levelling "cheap and baseless" allegations against members of the Gandhi family.
April 22, 2014
NEW DELHI: Some Indian teachers force children from lower castes and minority religions to clean toilets and sit separately from their classmates as part of "persistent" discrimination in classrooms, a rights group said on Tuesday.
April 22, 2014
A genetic disease has been cured in living, adult animals for the first time using a revolutionary genome-editing technique that can make the smallest changes to the vast database of the DNA molecule with pinpoint accuracy.
Experts hail ‘fantastic advance’ of new technique that can alter life-threatening mutations with pinpoint accuracy.
April 22, 2014
Apple is vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centres with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services
Employees wear green shirts near Apple's familiar logo displayed with a green leaf at the Apple Store timed to coincide with Tuesday's annual celebration of Earth Day in Sydney, on Tuesday.
April 21, 2014
The channel's daredevil’s jump has been cancelled following the avalanche that killed at least 13 people on Friday.
Picture shows daughter of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest after her father's body is brought to the Sherpa Monastery in Kathmandu on Sunday.
April 21, 2014
PERTH, Australia: From the disappearances of aviator Amelia Earhart to labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, there's just something about a good mystery that Americans find too tantalizing to resist. Perhaps that's why the saga of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has continued to rivet the country long after people elsewhere have moved on.
