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.
April 21, 2014
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa wound up her 51-day campaign in the Chennai saying, “The lady in Tamil Nadu is better than Modi in Gujarat in governance”
April 21, 2014
NEW DELHI: Each time you board an aircraft to fly in India — or even overfly the country — you are journeying back in time. An iron curtain prohibits flyers in Indian airspace from enjoying Wi-Fi connectivity. While international flyers can log on to the net as soon as they are out of Indian airspace, desi ones can do so only before takeoff and after landing.
April 21, 2014
Leaders of various political parties greeted Christians on the occasion
Shillong: Christians in Meghalaya Sunday joined their brethren the world over in celebrating Easter.
Believers throngeed Cathedrals and other churches in the Christian-majority state for the special mass and other celebratory events.
April 21, 2014
India has always been known as a land of diversity — it is home to a host of different cultures, traditions, religions, languages and customs. Ira Trivedi, however, has found one of the threads that unifies its billion-strong (and growing) population — the sexual homogenisation of its urban youth.
