April 5, 2014
PERTH: China's official news agency says a Chinese ship that is part of the multinational search effort looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected a "pulse signal" in southern Indian Ocean waters.
April 5, 2014
KABUL: Afghans flocked to polling stations nationwide on Saturday, defying a threat of violence by the Taliban to cast ballots in what promises to be the nation's first democratic transfer of power. The turnout was so high that some polling centers ran out of ballots.
April 5, 2014
WASHINGTON: The US economy has reached a milestone: It has finally regained all the private-sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession.
US employers did add a seasonally adjusted 192,000 jobs in March, just below February's 197,000, which was revised higher.
April 4, 2014
Brief Scorecard: India 176 for 4 (Kohli 72*, Hendricks 2-31) beat South Africa172 for 4 (du Plessis 58*, Ashwin 3-22) by six wickets
Yuvraj Singh lifts Virat Kohli up after the win, India v South Africa, World T20, semi-final, Mirpur, April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014
SRIHARIKOTA: Indian Space Research Organization on Monday successfully launched IRNSS-1B, the second navigation satellite among the seven satellites that will eventually constitute the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).
April 4, 2014
NEW DELHI: RBI governor Raghuram Rajan is likely to come under political pressure to retreat from his hawkish stance on inflation if BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wins in the general elections.
Rajan has won the respect of investors for his handling of a currency crisis that hit India last year.
April 4, 2014
JAISALMER: Even as the nation is rocked by the Lok Sabha campaigning, the netas, it seems are least bothered about the fact that the renewal of the diesel supply agreement between BSF and IOC which was to be inked in the first week of March got delayed.
April 3, 2014
NEW DELHI: Congress is facing anti-incumbency after 10 years in power, Union minister Jairam Ramesh admitted on Thursday, saying it poses a challenge as the party lost the battle of perception because the top leadership was "not communicative".
April 3, 2014
A new study has revealed the moon is 4.47 billion-years-old, after a team of planetary scientists discovered it was formed 95 million years after the birth of the solar system.
Moon is 4.47 billion years old, a new study has revealed.
April 3, 2014
LONDON: Researchers have developed a fist-sized robot surgeon that slides into the body through an incision in the belly button and can help perform surgery on astronauts in deep space.
