November 5, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee fell by 12 paise to 61.86 in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on Tuesday on fresh dollar demand from banks and importers amid strengthening of the US currency overseas.
November 5, 2013
BANGALORE: Amanat (name changed) was brought to Bangalore by a man, promising her a beauty parlour job. Once in the city, she was forced into a brothel. When cops rescued her, Amanat thought better days were near. But in less than 24 hours, the girl, who doesn't appear to be a major, was packed off to Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara. Worse, she was named an accused in a flesh-trade racket.
November 4, 2013
Washington — It turns out that a White House mole fired recently for snarky anonymous tweets about top Obama administration officials and its policies was an Indian-American policy wonk.
Jofi Joseph, 40, who served as a non-proliferation expert on the National Security Council, was a key aide of President Barack Obama, whose administration at over two dozen has more Indian-Americans in key jobs than any other previous US administration.
November 4, 2013
NEW DELHI: In its latest series of mishaps, the windshield of a Dreamliner of Air India cracked as the plane landed at Melbourne airport today though there was no threat to about 100 people on board, airline officials said.
AI-311 was operating from Delhi to Sydney via Melbourne with around 80 passengers and 12 crew members
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
