September 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal reached on Saturday to strip Syria of chemical weapons but said much remains to be done and warned Damascus to comply with the accord.
September 14, 2013
CHENNAI: Women in the city who have the money will no more have to give birth in cramped labour wards surrounded by surgical equipment and stark white and green walls.
September 14, 2013
NEW DELHI: India's envoy to China Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the US and his position in Beijing will be taken by Ashok K Kantha.
India’s Ambassador Appointee to the US Dr. S. Jaishankar
September 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: Acknowledging that India and the US have differing views on the issue of a military strike on Syria, the Obama administration has said that the UN Security Council needs to enforce international law, but it shouldn't be an impediment that can "protect somebody like Assad".
September 14, 2013
SEATTLE: Microsoft is laying off dozens of contract and freelance writers from its MSN news and entertainment portal as the giant software company seeks to reshape itself as a devices and services company.
September 14, 2013
NEW DELHI: Petrol prices were on Friday hiked by Rs 1.63 per litre, the seventh increase since June, on rising oil rates and falling rupee.
The increase excludes local sales tax or VAT and will be effective midnight tonight, oil firms said.
September 13, 2013
NEW DELHI: The declaration of Narendra Modi as BJP's prime ministerial candidate on Friday created euphoria among the rank and file but party patriarch L K Advani played a spoilsport which soured the mood of the cadre.
September 13, 2013
WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a speech marking the 12th anniversary of 9/11, called for attacks on the United States and a boycott of the world's largest economy.
September 13, 2013
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Despite the BCCI imposing him a life ban on spot-fixing charges in the IPL, Indian Test pacer S Sreesanth today said he still hopes to play for the country.
"I will make a comeback and I have started training for that," said Sreesanth.
September 13, 2013
NEW DELHI: Four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.
