December 28, 2013
NEW DELHI: The US government's decision to give a rare "trafficking" visa to the family of Sangeeta Richard, diplomat Devyani Khobragade's domestic help, opens an interesting can of worms.
December 27, 2013
Washington DC: Hospice patients are expected to die: The treatment focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill, not finding a cure. To enroll a patient, two doctors certify a life expectancy of six months or less.
December 27, 2013
Gujarat: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi got crucial legal relief when a city court on Thursday rejected the petition of Zakia Jafri against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team giving a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister in a case relating to the 2002 communal riots.
December 27, 2013
India 181 for 1 (Vijay 91*, Pujara 58*) v South Africa
Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay leave the field as bad light stops play during the first day of the second Test against South Africa in Durban on December 26, 2013.
December 27, 2013
ILLINOIS: McDonald's Corp has shut down a website intended to provide employees with work and life guidance after it generated negative publicity for the fast-food company.
Decemebr 26, 2013
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 157 for 8 (Sammy 43*, McClenaghan 5-58)New Zealand 156 (Brendon McCullum 51, Nathan McCullum 47, Bravo 4-44)
Darren Sammy's aggressive cameo proved the difference between the two teams
December 26, 2013
After a four-year probe, the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team gave the Gujarat Chief Minister a clean chit in February 2012.
December 26, 2013
700 litres of free water within 24 hours of swearing-in on Saturday
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal with Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas.
December 26, 2013
TIRUMALA: On Christmas Day, thousands jostled for space in serpentine queues more than a kilometre long for darshan of Lord Venkateswara even as authorities on the seven hills barred the aged from offering prayers and cancelled normal sevas to deal with the biggest turnout on a single day in recent years.
December 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Devyani Khobragade case has put the spotlight on US attorney Preet Bharara in a way that his other famous case against Rajat Gupta failed to do. Last week, Bharara's long press release on the case against Khobragade set teeth on edge in staid South Block, to the extent that the foreign ministry went out of its way to issue a rebuttal.
