November 4, 2013
NEW DELHI: Political parties on Saturday sparred over the issue of opinion polls, with BJP saying only losers demand a ban on such surveys even as the Congress said it never sought such a prohibition.
November 4 2013
RIYADH: The streets of the Saudi capital Riyadh were unusually quiet on Monday as many expatriates stayed at home to avoid the start of a government crackdown on illegal foreign workers.
About nine million foreigners, mostly unskilled laborers or domestic workers, live alongside 18 million Saudis.
November 4, 2013
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist claims to have solved the mystery of how life on Earth exactly began about 4 billion years ago after studying three sites containing the world's oldest fossils.
Indian-origin scientist has claimed to have solved the mystery of how life began on Earth.
November 4, 2013
NAIROBI: Africans were treated on Sunday to a spectacular solar eclipse that swept across the continent, while sky-gazers in the United States and Europe also glimpsed the rare phenomenon.
November 4, 2013
RIYADH: Secretary of state John Kerry moved on Sunday to reassure America's Arab friends that the United States will not allow them to be attacked "from outside," in an apparent warning to Iran.
November 3, 2013
KOLLAM: Congress MP N Peethambara Kurup was on Sunday booked by the police on a complaint by leading Malayalam cine actress Shweta Menon that she had been molested by him at a function here on Friday.
Congress MP booked for allegedly molesting actress Shweta Menon
November 3, 2013
LONDON: The controversial 3,000-pound "security bond" for some "high-risk" foreign visitors to the UK, including those from India, is to be scrapped, the Home Office has confirmed.
The scheme, announced by Home Secretary Theresa May in June, was to come into force this month.
November 3, 2013
WASHINGTON – Now is when Americans start figuring out that President Barack Obama's health care law goes beyond political talk, and really does affect them and people they know.
November 3, 2013
DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes court found a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen guilty on Sunday in absentia for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence.
The International Crimes Tribunal convicted Britain's Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, from the United States, of charges relating to the murder of 18 intellectuals during the conflict.
November 3, 2013
PARIS: Accusing India of committing genocide of tuberculosis patients, international activists on Friday booed Indian health officials at the ongoing Union World Conference on Lung Health here while they were trying to showcase the country's efforts to check the disease that kills 1,000 Indians every day.
