December 12, 2013
NEW DELHI: In a double whammy for the government, retail inflation soared to a nine-month high of 11.24 per cent and factory output shrank 1.8 per cent, developments that may prompt the Reserve Bank to further increase a key interest rate next week.
December 12, 2013
NEW YORK: Ratan Tata has said he felt confused and humiliated during his first few weeks as a student at the elite Harvard University but those initial days turned out to be the "most important weeks" of his life.
December 12, 2013
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 301 for 8 (de Villiers 109, de Kock 101, Miller 56*, Ishant 4-40) v India - Match Rained Out
Quinton de Kock broke the record for the most runs in a three-match bilateral series
December 12, 2013
DENVER: The suspension of a 6-year-old boy for kissing a girl at school is raising questions about whether the peck should be considered sexual harassment.
December 11, 2013
WASHINGTON: Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old.
This image provided by NASA and taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on November 28, 2013, shows the Sun, but no sign of comet ISON.
December 11, 2013
Suicide bomber attacks German troops near airport in Afghan capital
KABUL: A large explosion shook Kabul's international airport on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, with police saying initial reports suggested it was an insurgent attack.
December 11, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the decision of the Delhi high court, which had in 2009 decriminalized sexual relation between persons belonging to same sex.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya upheld the constitutional validity of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code that makes anal sex a punishable offence.
December 11, 2013
PARIS: US President Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela's memorial service with his stirring eulogy today, but it was his grinning "selfie" with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.
December 10, 2013
PANAJI: Politicians and moneyed people have captured sports associations in India and this is killing sports, India's star athlete of yesteryears Milkha Singh said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2013
NEW DELHI: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out giving any support to BJP to form a government in Delhi and termed as personal comments in this regard by party leader Prashant Bhushan.
We’ll go national some day, but I don’t know when. People are getting impatient, but all this cannot be done overnight.
