March 6, 2014
WASHINGTON: Bipartisan Senate opposition blocked swift confirmation on Wednesday for President Barack Obama's choice to head the US justice department's civil rights division, the emotional residue of the long-ago murder of a policeman and the legal representation his killer received.
March 5. 2014
WASHINGTON: US First Lady Michelle Obama has felicitated Indian acid attack victim Laxmi after she won the International Women of Courage Award for successfully leading the campaign against acid attacks on women in India.
March 5, 2014
The service will be available free to Android and iOS users.
The service is available as part of Google Maps.
Technology giant Google has launched indoor maps in India that will help users browse through and locate specific locations inside venues like malls and museums.
March 5, 2014
LONDON: Indians are among the most enterprising of Britain's migrant communities, a new data analysis report here has found.
Around half a million people from 155 countries have launched businesses in the UK and these migrant-founded companies are responsible for creating 14 per cent of all jobs
March 5, 2014
Brief Scorecard: India 160 for 2 (Dhawan 60, Rahane 56) beat Afghanistan 159 (Shenwari 50, Jadeja 4-30, Ashwin 3-31) by eight wickets
Ravindra Jadeja set the tone with two wickets in his first over
March 5, 2014
The New York Times has printed a correction for misspelling 161 years ago the name of a free black man who was sold into slavery and whose memoirs were turned into the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave.
March 5, 2014
BEIJING: China on Tuesday targeted a modest 7.5 per cent GDP growth in 2014, unchanged from last year, as the government looks to steer the economy onto a more sustainable and balanced path.
March 5, 2014
WASHINGTON: Arguing that Pakistan will remain a key player in counter terrorism post-2014, the U.S. has proposed $280 million in military assistance to the country, although it wants to cut civilian aid in an effort to acknowledge India’s concerns about misuse of the funds.
March 5, 2014
WASHINGTON: Nasa is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life.
Last year, scientists discovered liquid plumes of water shooting up through Europa's ice.
March 4, 2014
WASHINGTON/KIEV: US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin's rationale for his incursion into Crimea was not "fooling anybody" and said Russian "meddling" would push states away from Moscow.
US Secretary of State John Kerry
