October 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: India and the US on Sunday agreed to work together to target the financial network and fund raising activities of Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Haqqani network and individual terrorists associated with these organizations.
October 13, 2013
Washington — The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon come out with new rules for the entry of foreign banks that may even allow them to take over Indian banks, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said.
"That is going to be a big opening because one could even contemplate taking over Indian banks, small Indian banks and so on," he said at an event of the Institute of International Finance here Saturday.
"We're coming out with details on that in the next couple of weeks."
October 13, 2013
Seoul – North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".
October 13, 2013
CHENNAI: India has detained an armed ship operated by a US maritime security company and the 35 people on board for failing to produce papers authorizing it to carry weapons and ammunition in Indian waters, the coast guard said on Sunday.
Coast Guard commandant Anand Kumar said the ship was stopped on Friday and was being held in the port of Tuticorin along with its 10 crew and 25 armed security guards until required documentation is submitted.
October 13, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Australia 304 for 8 (Bailey 85, Finch 72) beat India 232 (Kohli 61, Faulkner 3-47) by 72 runs
MS Dhoni was bowled for 19 as India fell to a 72-run defeat after their batsmen struggled against Australia's seamers in the first ODI in Pune
October 13, 2013
Bhubaneswar (India) – A cyclone left a trail of death and destruction Sunday after winds packing speeds of up to 200 kilometres an hour ripped through a vast swathe of India's impoverished east coast.
October 13, 2013
Abu Dhabi: Cricket's governing body launched the World Test Championship 2017 on Saturday aimed at preserving the primacy of the longer format of the game.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) said the inaugural championship will be hosted by England and will feature the top four teams in the ICC Test rankings, with a total prize money of $10 million at stake.
October 12, 2013
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: The University of the West Indies' Seismic Research Center is reporting an earthquake hit Friday night northwest of Trinidad.
The quake measured magnitude 6.4 at a depth of 37 miles (60 kilometers).
The Seismic Research Center said it had received no reports of damage or injuries.
It was the strongest earthquake in Trinidad since 1997, when a magnitude-6.1 quake caused some damage on the island of Tobago north of Trinidad.
October 12, 2013
Washington – The secret federal court overseeing US wiretapping programs has extended the government's authority to collect US telephone records, the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said late Friday.
October 12, 2013
NEW DELHI: Intense and destructive storms are likely to occur more frequently as global warming intensifies, Greenpeace said on Saturday.
