January 19, 2014
BERLIN: The US intelligence service will continue to spy on foreign governments, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Saturday, although he assured Chancellor Angela Merkel that he would not let intrusive surveillance harm their relationship.
President Barack Obama on US Intelligence Service
January 18, 2014
VISHAKHAPATNAM: Confident of getting the better of Sri Lanka in the upcoming limited-overs series, Indian women's team captain Mithali Raj said the home side's experienced batting line-up would be its biggest strength in the matches starting Sunday.
India and Sri Lanka will lock horns in a three-ODI and three-Twenty20 series starting on Sunday.
January 18, 2014
PATNA: Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde drew attention toward alleged "misuse" of social media in forking old "provocative" photographs to foment communal riots and said his ministry was mulling to put a check on it.
January 18, 2014
WASHINGTON DC: The malware used to steal the personal data of 70 million Target customers was an altered version of an “off-the-shelf” hacker tool known as “BlackPOS” that apparently was used to infect the computer networks of six other retailers, a computer security firm reported Friday.
January 18, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO: The iconic statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro has been damaged during a storm.
Officials said on Friday that the right thumb was chipped, apparently by a lightning strike on Thursday night.
The middle finger of the right hand had been chipped during a storm last month.
January 18, 2014
NEW DELHI: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of junior human resource development minister Shashi Tharoor, died an "unnatural, sudden death" with her body bearing "injury marks", said a doctor on Saturday.
Tharoor was later hospitalized after he complained of chest pain.
January 18, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO: Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer chips.
Intel to reduce workforce
January 17, 2014
BEIJING: China has developed its own mobile operating system aimed at easing the stranglehold of the Google and Apple, even as skeptics doubt its efficacy.
China's mobile operating system
January 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union minister Shashi Tharoor, has reportedly been found dead in a five-star hotel here.
Sunanda Tharoor found dead in Delhi hotel, post-mortem today
January 17, 2014
NEW DELHI: The Indian hockey team pulled off a sensational come-from-behind 5-4 win over Olympic champions Germany after Mandeep Singh slammed a brilliant hat-trick in their fiercely-contested 5-8th place classification match of the Hero World League Finals on Friday.
