April 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama paid $98,169 in taxes on $481,098 in adjusted income last year, tax returns the White House released Friday show. They paid an effective federal income tax rate of 20.4 percent and donated significantly less to charity than they did the year before.
April 11, 2011
NEW DELHI: Dashing hopes of recovery, the factory output declined by 1.9 per cent in February while exports dipped by 3.15 per cent in March, prompting the industry to demand an immediate rate cut by the Reserve Bank to boost the economy.
The industrial output, which had shown some signs of recovery in January, again entered the negative territory mainly due to 3.7 per cent contraction in the manufacturing sector, according to data released by the government.
April 11, 2014
Kathleen Sebelius (65), Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned on Thursday a few months after the disastrous rollout of the ‘Obamacare’ website, healthcare.gov, which became a magnet for criticism of the President’s landmark Affordable Care Act.
April 11, 2014
In his first admission that his decision to quit as Delhi chief minister had gone wrong, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal told ET he mistimed the decision to resign, and that mistake meant AAP suffers a communication gap with the people. He said that AAP will have to be more careful in future.
April 11, 2014
A newly discovered security bug nicknamed Heartbleed has exposed millions of usernames, passwords and reportedly credit card numbers — a major problem that hackers could have exploited during the more than two years it went undetected.
Heartbleed: 'Secure' internet wasn't safe
April 11, 2014
NEW YORK: US stocks sank on Thursday, with the S&P 500 turning negative for the year and the Nasdaq falling its most in a day since June 2012 as investors again sold high-flying names in the technology and biotech sectors and sought shelter in defensive names.
April 10, 2014
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent a letter to EU leaders, expressing his "extreme concern" over Ukraine's debt for Russian gas and warning them that supplies to Europe may be affected, his spokesman said.
April 10, 2014
LONDON: The Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday conferred the rank of Knight Commander (KBE) on former chairman of the Tata group Ratan Tata.
Ratan Tata was given the honour for his "services to UK/India relations".
The KBE is one of the highest honors given by the queen to civilians.
April 10, 2014
AHMEDABAD: Seeking to contain a controversy over Narendra Modi's marital status, his elder brother Somabhai on Thursday said that the BJP prime ministerial candidate's marriage should be seen as a "social formality" which happened nearly 50 years ago.
Modi has not denied that he is married, says younger brother
