January 11, 2014
ISRAEL: Comatose for the last eight years after a stroke, former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon has died. His career stretched across most of Israel's 65-year history.
January 10, 2014
NEW YORK: An Indian-American physician will pay $400,000 to resolve allegations that he and his clinics violated federal laws by billing a government insurance programme for vein injections and physician office visits performed by unqualified personnel.
January 10, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO: A new feature in Google's Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
January 10, 2014
NEw YORK: In one way, the cases are polar opposites: The parents of Jahi McMath in Oakland, California, have fought to keep their daughter connected to a ventilator, while the parents and husband of Marlise Munoz in Fort Worth, Texas, want desperately to turn the machine off.
January 10, 2014
NEW DELHI: Diplomatic ties between India and the United States suffered another blow on Friday with India expelling a senior US diplomat in retaliation for the expulsion of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade hours after she had been indicted by a jury in New York in a visa fraud case.
January 10, 2014
A new image of the pulsar wind nebula known as the 'hand of God' has been captured by US space agency Nasa's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
January 10. 2014
New York: Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was on Friday indicted for visa fraud and making false statements but can leave the US as she has been accorded diplomatic immunity.
Charges against 39-year-old Khobragade will remain and she will have to face trial, if she returns to the US without diplomatic immunity.
January 9, 2014
New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while inaugurating the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, assured that the country is “heading towards better times”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday used the same platform to promise “better days” in “four-six months”.
January 9, 2014
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 318 for 4 (Mahela 106*, Silva 95) lead Pakistan 165 (Manzoor 73, Pradeep 3-62, Herath 3-26) by 153 runs
Mahela Jayawardene had last scored a Test hundred in April 2012 against England at home
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON: India has been ranked among countries with the weakest nuclear security in the world, in a US study released on Thursday.
Fewer countries hold nuclear materials at risk to terrorists, report says
