February 6, 2014
NEW DELHI: India's military has postponed until the next financial year a plan to buy 126 fighter planes from France's Dassault Aviation, the defence minister said on Thursday.
February 6, 2014
WASHINGTON: The US Homeland Security Department is warning airlines flying to Russia that terrorists may try to smuggle explosives on board hidden in toothpaste tubes.
The Olympic Rings are pictured in Sochi on February 5, 2014
February 6, 2014
By Columnist, Sam Prasad Jillella
WASHINGTON DC: Bakhshish Singh has lived in the US for more than four decades.
Bakhshish Singh - Former President of GNFA ( Photo Credit: Sam Prasad Jillella )
February 5, 2014
NEW DELHI: It doesn't get weirder than this in the cosmic zoo: a gas planet that is going around two 'suns', one orange and the other red, all the time wobbling drunkenly so much that 'seasons' would flash past. This strange world was discovered 2300 light years away by Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.
February 5, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Bangladesh 86 for 1 (Shamsur 45*, Imrul 36*) trail Sri Lanka 587 (Sangakkara 319, Shakib 5-148) by 501 runs
Kumar Sangakkara matched Lara's double-hundred count of nine and is now only behind Don Bradman
February 5, 2014
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's healthcare law will reduce the American workforce by the equivalent of 2 million full-time workers in 2017, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, prompting Republicans to paint the law as bad medicine for the U.S. economy.
February 5, 2014
Fifteen years ago, when Anu Aiyengar went for an interview to become a mergers and acquisitions banker at a major Wall Street firm, she got a stark, disappointing message.
Over the past 15 years at JPMorgan, India-born Anu Aiyengar has worked on around $200 billion worth of transactions.
February 5, 2014
GENEVA: The United Nations demanded on Wednesday that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers and turn them over to civil authorities, in an unprecedented and scathing report.
February 5, 2014
KOLKATA: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday blamed the Gandhi family for twice denying the opportunity to Pranab Mukherjee to be the country's Prime Minister.
Cong denied Pranab the chance to become PM: Modi
February 5, 2014
WASHINGTON: The US has refused to lend its support to talks between the Pakistan government and the Taliban, describing it as an internal matter of the country.
"We of course are closely following the recent developments and reports. The issue of whether to negotiate with TTP (Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan) is an internal matter for Pakistan," state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
