December 11, 2013
Suicide bomber attacks German troops near airport in Afghan capital
KABUL: A large explosion shook Kabul's international airport on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, with police saying initial reports suggested it was an insurgent attack.
December 11, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the decision of the Delhi high court, which had in 2009 decriminalized sexual relation between persons belonging to same sex.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya upheld the constitutional validity of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code that makes anal sex a punishable offence.
December 11, 2013
PARIS: US President Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela's memorial service with his stirring eulogy today, but it was his grinning "selfie" with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.
December 10, 2013
PANAJI: Politicians and moneyed people have captured sports associations in India and this is killing sports, India's star athlete of yesteryears Milkha Singh said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2013
NEW DELHI: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out giving any support to BJP to form a government in Delhi and termed as personal comments in this regard by party leader Prashant Bhushan.
We’ll go national some day, but I don’t know when. People are getting impatient, but all this cannot be done overnight.
December 10, 2013
JOHANNESBURG: Nearly 90 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to South Africa for memorials to Nelson Mandela that will hail one of humanity's great peacemakers.
Mourners in South Africa flock to Mandela memorial
December 10, 2013
CHENNAI: In yet another cabinet reshuffle, chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday dropped sports and youth welfare minister K V Ramalingam and inducted former minister R B Udhaya Kumar, representing the Sattur assembly constituency. Udhaya Kumar was minister for information and technology for nearly four months in 2011 before being dropped.
December 10, 2013
By Columnist, Sam Prasad Jillella
The Academy of Indian Music and Fine Arts (AIMFA), partnered with UMBC, and built one of the largest competitions of its kind, outside of India. It has promoted the growth and appreciation of Indian music and dance, and fostered diversity and friendship in the United States.
December 9, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US establishment appears to be gearing up for the eclipse of the Congress Party-led UPA government, going by various pronouncements in the administration, in the Congress, and in the media.
December 9, 2013
MELBOURNE: A group of Sydney-based Indian-Australian professionals have come together to form a venture which would invest in feature films, documentaries and TV shows with Indian themes.
The Australia India Film Fund (AIFF) would be led by two Sydney-based professionals of Indian origin — Devendra Gupta and Yateendra Gupta.
The AIFF was launched on Friday and has also managed to rope in perhaps the best known Indian film personality Down Under, Anupam Sharma, as its head of films.
