September 24, 2013
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of centenarians in south India, reveals a recently released census data.
September 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: With the Delhi high court allowing the BCCI to conduct its special general meeting (SGM) in Chennai tomorrow, the decks are cleared for the board to impose a possible life ban on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi for alleged financial irregularities while being at the helm of cash-rich league from 2008-2010.
September 24, 2013
QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A huge earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, toppling scores of homes and sending people around the region rushing into the streets in panic.
Pakistani pedestrians and office workers gather on a street after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Karachi.
September 24, 2013
STOCKHOLM: Seeking to dispel any doubts over the credibility of their work, UN climate experts called their latest report an unbiased and reliable assessment of global warming as they presented it Monday to officials from 110 governments for a final review.
September 23, 2013
TORONTO: Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday it agreed in principle to be acquired by a consortium led by its biggest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, for $4.7 billion.
September 23, 2013
Further evidence emerged on Monday that the economic recovery across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro is picking up and that unemployment may be peaking.
September 23, 2013
Budapest – Indian wrestler Sandeep Tulsi Yadav scripted history by winning the first ever medal in the Greco Roman category as he beat Serbian Makismovic Aleksandar to bag the bronze medal on the last day of the World Championships here Sunday.
September 23, 2013
CHICAGO: The shadow of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, and his alleged complicity in the 2002 communal riots in his state, has created a controversy here with the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR) withdrawing its support to the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda.
September 23, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea on Sunday for Americans to overcome their "creeping resignation" about gun violence and demand tougher gun laws following the country's latest mass shooting.
September 22, 2013
JAMMU: Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir late Saturday, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
Indian troops retaliated, and the exchange of gunfire continued till the early hours of Sunday.
"Pakistani troops fired at our positions in Hamirpur area of the LoC in Rajouri without any provocation late last night (Saturday)," defence spokesman Captain SN Acharya told IANS.
