March 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: Fresh B-school graduates are increasingly shunning the security of a steady job and striking out on their own. A worldwide survey of B-school alumni reveals that 45% of those who graduated between 2010 and 2013 preferred self-employment — that's almost double the proportion of their seniors who opted to pursue their own dreams in the 2000-2009 period.
March 17, 2014
DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken on BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying any clean chit was "politically expedient and far too premature" and insisted the Gujarat chief minister was legally and morally accountable for failing to control the violence.
March 16, 2014
SYDNEY - The southern Indian Ocean, where investigators suspect missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have come down, is one place where a commercial airliner can crash without a ship spotting it, a radar plotting it or even a satellite picking it up.
March 16, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Bangladesh 78 for 1 (Anamul 44*) beat Afghanistan 72 (Shakib 3-8, Razzak 2-20) by nine wickets
Shakib Al Hasan picked up three wickets, Bangladesh v Afghanistan, World T20, Qualifying Group A, March 16, 2014
March 16, 2014
NEW YORK: New York City investigators on Sunday hope to uncover the cause of an explosion that flattened two apartment buildings and killed eight people.
More than 60 people were injured in the explosion, and more than 100 others were displaced.
March 16, 2014
There are three pieces of evidence that aviation safety experts say make it clear the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was taken over by someone who was knowledgeable about how the plane worked.
March 16, 2014
DETROIT: Honda Motor Co is recalling nearly 900,000 Odyssey minivans that could catch fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a recall notice posted on Friday.
US NHTSA Recalls Honda Odyssey
March 16, 2014
CHENNAI: Finance minister P Chidambaram admitted that Congress was the "underdog" in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections but averred that in a multi-cornered contest, an underdog too could win several seats.
Indian Finance Minister - Palaniappan Chidambaram
March 16, 2014
More Bangaloreans opting for herbal colours over synthetic ones
Store owners are witnessing a surge in demand for organic and herbal variants of gulaal.
March 16, 2014
Was Malaysia Airlines' Flight 370 hijacked with the chillingly murderous intent of crashing it into a high-value building in an Indian city in a re-run of al-Qaida's 9/11 attack on the US? And if the plane didn't crash, where is it now? A week after the plane was thought to have crashed, its disappearance has turned from increasingly mysterious to deadly sinister.
