October 7, 2013
NEW DELHI: Throwing their weight behind an embattled Jwala Gutta, several former players have described the Badminton Association of India disciplinary committee's recommendation of a life ban on the star doubles player as "ridiculous and harsh".
October 7, 2013
NEW YORK: Days after the launch of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity.
October 6, 2013
STOCKHOLM: A Pakistani teenage activist shot by the Taliban and a Japanese author who writes about alienation and a fractured modern world are tipped as Nobel Prize winners ahead of the annual awards that start on Monday.
October 6, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Mumbai Indians 202/6 (Smith 44, Maxwell 37, Rohit Sharma 33; Tambe 2/19) beat Rajasthan Royals 169 in 18.5 overs (Rahane 65, Samson 60; Harbhajan 4/32, Pollard 3/31)
October 6, 2013
NUSA DUA: Wal-Mart Stores Inc's retail plans with India partner Bharti Enterprises are "not tenable" and both sides are looking for the best way to move forward, an executive with the US retailer told Reuters.
October 6, 2013
TRIPOLI, Libya: US forces on Saturday captured an al-Qaida leader in Libya linked to the 1998 American embassy bombings in east Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade, a US official said.
The inset image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi who was believed to be a computer specialist with al-Qaida.
October 6, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US government shutdown enters its fifth day, a week after the horrific carnage by a mentally ill African-American man in which he kills a dozen people before he is cut down by police.
October 5, 2013
Washington — US President Barack Obama has named yet another Indian American, Kerala University physics graduate Arun M. Kumar, to lead the trade promotion arm of the US Commerce Department charged with helping US companies succeed in markets around the world.
October 5, 2013
Afghanistan's coach Kabir Khan hopes India and Pakistan will help his team make an impact in their maiden World Cup appearance in 2015.
October 5, 2013
WASHINGTON: Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed on Saturday to retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed federal employees once the government reopens, but there was no end in sight to the shutdown that was in its fifth day.
