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.
November 2, 2013
CHENNAI: With political parties in Tamil Nadu stepping up pressure on Centre for boycott of CHOGM at Colombo this month, Union finance minister P Chidambaram met DMK chief M Karunanidhi here on Saturday and said no decision has been taken as yet on Prime Minister's visit to the meet.
November 2, 2013
PATNA: Meeting the families of six persons killed in serial bomb blasts during his Sunday rally, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday assured them all help from the party.
The BJP leader garlanded the photograph of Singh, consoled the family and handed them a cheque of Rs five lakh, said a BJP MLA.
November 1, 2013
BANGALORE: It is a "lucky peanuts" wish from the Nasa to Indian Space Research Organization on its ambitious mission to Mars.
The PSLV-C25, which will carry "Mangalyaan" or the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first inter-planetary flight, is readied for launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
November 1, 2013
Los Angeles, CA: A gunman opened fire Friday inside a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, killing one Transportation Security Administration worker, wounding as many as three others and sending terrified travelers diving for cover and fleeing onto the tarmac, authorities and witnesses said.
November 1, 2013
With no gold coming into India due to various curbs, job cuts in the jewellery sector seem inevitable in the coming months
November 1, 2013
NEW YORK: The Internet makes it easy to send information to far-flung places in an instant – hit “send,” and poof, there it goes. But where does that information go, how does it get there and who gets access to the data?
This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google data center in Hamina, Finland.
