January 2, 2014
MUMBAI: If Mumbai is to replicate the Delhi model of a 50% power tariff cut for the majority of residential consumers, it would require an annual subsidy of at least Rs 1,600 crore, experts say.
January 1, 2014
BEIJING: Concerned over China's negative image abroad, President Xi Jinping has vowed to use its cultural soft power to project the Communist giant as a responsible nation.
"The stories of China should be well told, voices of China well-spread, and characteristics of China well explained," Xi said.
January 1, 2014
WASHINGTON: Security experts have discovered a new secret weapon to ensure your laptop and other devices are not tampered with – glitter nail polish.
Security researchers Eric Michaud and Ryan Lackey said glitter nail polish can help people know when their machines have been physically tampered with and potentially compromised.
January 1, 2014
A technicality in the government rules for posthumous Padma Awards has rendered India’s first individual Olympic medalist K.D. Jadhav ineligible for the coveted civilian honor and his son Ranjit is so aghast that he now wants to throw away the bronze his “forgotten” father won in 1952.
January 1, 2014
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has asked his Cabinet Ministers to bring more transparency in departmental functioning and adopt ‘zero tolerance’ against corruption.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh
January 1, 2013
NEW DELHI: It may rain jobs in the new year as companies are gearing up to add over 8 lakh new employees to their payrolls and dole out salary hikes of up to 20 per cent to best performers in 2014, say experts.
January 1, 2014
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the most admired man and woman in America, a new poll has found.
Pictures of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
January 1, 2014
LONDON: Indian institutes, academics and scientists, invited to nominate Indians for the Nobel Prize, are "letting invitations rot in their drawers". The usually secretive Nobel Committee, which decides the coveted prizes, has told this to TOI.
January 1, 2014
LONDON: Fifteen Indian-origin men and women, including a prominent educationist Asha Khemka, have been named in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's Honors List for the year 2014.
December 31, 2013
Nancy Powell says she joins Secretary of State John Kerry in expressing “regret for the circumstances of the consular officer’s arrest”; adds that “we can look forward to continuing to expand bilateral relations”
