October 1, 2013
Bollywood's incarcerated actor Sanjay Dutt was granted a two-week parole by Pune's Yerawada Central Jail authorities for medical reasons, official sources confirmed on Tuesday.
Sanjay Dutt had sought a month's parole in mid-August to get medical treatment for certain illnesses that he has been suffering from.
October 1, 2013
Senior BJP leader accuses govt of using probe agencies like IB and NIA to settle scores with BJP as it “can’t fight them politically”
October 1, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US government began a partial shutdown on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects.
October 1, 2013
NEW DELHI: BCCI president N Srinivasan might have called his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan as just a cricket enthusiast but Chennai Super Kings opener Michael Hussey has said that the betting-accused official was actually running the IPL team.
October 1, 2013
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the expulsion of the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela and two other embassy employees for allegedly conspiring with the political opposition to sabotage the economy and power grid.
Maduro made the announcement during a live TV appearance and said they had 48 hours to leave the country.
"Out of Venezuela,'' the leftist leader said, then added in English: "Yankees go home.''
October 1, 2013
WASHINGTON: Congress has missed the deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown in 17 years.
September 30, 2013
MUMBAI: India's current account deficit was narrower than expected at $21.8 billion, or 4.9 per cent of gross domestic product, in the June quarter, data released on Monday showed.
Still, it was wider than the $18.17 billion, or 3.6 per cent of GDP, in the three months ending in March, on a seasonal slowdown in exports and firm imports. Five economists had predicted the June quarter current account deficit (CAD) would rise to $23-$25 billion.
September 30, 2013
WASHINGTON: With a shutdown of the US government hours away, Republicans and Democrats blamed each other on Monday for a stand-off that has left hundreds of thousands of government workers on the brink of being sent home.
September 30, 2013
HYDERABAD: Just out after 16 months in jail, YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday sent signals that he was keeping his options open post Lok Sabha elections today and had a word of appreciation for BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
September 30, 2013
Ambassador Rao, DCM Sandhu answer questions from community
Attendees from "Ask the Embassy - Consular Adalat" Event, September 18, 2013, Washington, D.C (Photo Credits: Stephen Kumar, Embassy of India)
