April 12, 2014
A day after a complaint was filed against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over his marital status, Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath on Saturday said the Commission would examine it in accordance with the Supreme Court judgements.
April 12, 2014
CAPE CANAVERAL: A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts and threatens to delay next week's launch of a commercial supply ship for Nasa.
April 12, 2014
WASHINGTON: The United States has blocked Iran's pick for envoy to the United Nations, a rare diplomatic rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when Washington and Tehran have been seeking a thaw in relations.
April 12, 2014
WASHINGTON: India received foreign exchange remittances worth $70 billion in 2013 from its migratory workforce to retain the top spot in the world amid a broad slowdown caused by regulatory hindrances on both movement of people and capital.
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
