March 8, 2014
Bhojpuri and Oriya actors, cricketer Mohammed Kaif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s niece Karuna Shukla are among the 194 candidates.
The Congress on Saturday night released the first list of its nominees for Lok Sabha polls that contains several new and young faces.
March 8, 2014
BEIJING: In a stern message to its neighbors, China on Saturday said it is determined to defend "every inch" of its territory and there was "no room for compromise" with Japan over territorial or historical disputes.
March 8, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement.
March 8, 2014
NEW DELHI: Washington will drop a travel ban on Narendra Modi if he becomes the Prime Minister. US assistant secretary of state Nisha Desai Biswal finally buried the controversy over Modi's visa as she told a TV channel that the US would welcome the Gujarat CM if he ascends to the top job.
March 7, 2014
CHENNAI: None of India's 700 universities and 35,539 colleges has made it to the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released on Thursday.
None of the IITs have made it to the top 100 of a global list released by the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings on Thursday.
March 7, 2014
CARACAS, Venezuela: A National Guardsman and a civilian were killed on Thursday as gangs of government supporters on motorcycles rode into east Caracas neighborhoods to remove street barricades placed by opposition protesters.
March 6, 2014
Qinghai-Tibet Railway, world's highest railway, will reach the residence of Panchen Lama at Xigaze in Tibet
March 6, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 208 for 7 (Mathews 74*, Al-Amin 2-42) beat Bangladesh 204 for 9 (Anamul 49, Priyanjan 2-11, Thisara 2-29) by three wickets
Angelo Mathews revived Sri Lanka from 8 for 3
March 6, 2014
LONDON: Dying to share a secret but can't trust anyone? How about sharing it with your robot?
Robots that can keep secrets are presently being designed by scientists from Britain.
March 6, 2014
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that slapping of sedition charges against Kashmiri students in Meerut by Uttar Pradesh government for cheering Pakistan team during a cricket match that India lost was "unacceptably harsh punishment" and should be reversed.
