May 27, 2014
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday congratulated Narendra Modi on his being sworn-in as India’s 15th Prime Minister and said he looked forward to working with the new leader to strengthen strategic partnership.
May 27, 2014
As a citizen of the country, he raised questions on corruption, prices and communal harmony
Former Union Minister, lawyer and anti-corruption activist Shanti Bhushan
May 27, 2014
Pakistan launches polio drive in tribal belt amid security fears
In this May 20, 2014 photo, a Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan.
May 26, 2014
CHENNAI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed for 10 days, the ongoing trial in a disproportionate assets case before a Bangalore court against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
May 26, 2014
LUCKNOW, India — An express train plowed into a parked freight train in northern India on Monday, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to heaps of torn and twisted metal, officials said.
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.
