December 26, 2013
TIRUMALA: On Christmas Day, thousands jostled for space in serpentine queues more than a kilometre long for darshan of Lord Venkateswara even as authorities on the seven hills barred the aged from offering prayers and cancelled normal sevas to deal with the biggest turnout on a single day in recent years.
December 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Devyani Khobragade case has put the spotlight on US attorney Preet Bharara in a way that his other famous case against Rajat Gupta failed to do. Last week, Bharara's long press release on the case against Khobragade set teeth on edge in staid South Block, to the extent that the foreign ministry went out of its way to issue a rebuttal.
December 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: The fact that inflation has been an area of concern for some years now is well known, but exactly what goods and services have seen prices rise most sharply? School fees, a CSO study shows, have seen the most dramatic spike over the tenure of the UPA, up 433% between March 2004 and March 2013.
December 25, 2013
DURBAN: Jaques Kallis, one of the greatest all rounders of the game, on Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket.
Jacques Kallis has called time on a career that has lasted almost 18 years
December 25, 2013
Every Indian diplomat in the U.S. has told the same lie, because none of them can afford to pay the local minimum wage when their own pay, even with the foreign allowance, is barely more than that
Satyabrata Pal, a former High Commissioner to Pakistan, is a Member of the National Human Rights Commission.
December 25, 2013
NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the decks for the formation of a minority AAP government with Congress backing in Delhi and chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal may be asked to prove majority by January 3, official sources said Wednesday.
December 25, 2013
Vatican, Rome, ITALY: The faithful flocked to St. Peter's Basilica for Pope Francis' first Christmas Eve midnight Mass, in which the pontiff once again preached the importance of acceptance and humility, qualities he has demonstrated continually in his first nine months as head of the Catholic Church.
December 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: CBI has informed Supreme Court that it has “so far” not found any criminality in the 14 preliminary enquiries registered on the basis of intercepted conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
December 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: In a perceptible hardening of stand against the US, India on Christmas eve rejected the American embassy's request for an extension on IDs for its consulate officials. With the deadline for surrender of these cards ending on Monday, India withdrew all identity cards of US consulate officials.
December 24, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama has symbolically signed up for health insurance to promote his own controversial health care reform legislation, a White House official said on Monday.
The US government extended the deadline by 24 hours.
