September 15, 2013
WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY: The world's oldest man, a gin rummy-playing, one-time sugarcane worker born in Spain, has died at 112 in New York state, a funeral home said on Saturday.
September 15, 2013
AKORA KHATTAK (Pakistan): He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban's one-eyed leader an "angel" and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad.
September 15, 2013
BANGALORE: Drape yourself in nine yards or cover yourself from head-to-toe is what the Karnataka government is willy-nilly telling its women employees.
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.
