November 16, 2013
Banks have sacrificed over Rs 1 lakh crore by writing off bad loans to corporates, data collected by RBI reveals.
November 16, 2013
WASHINGTON: The State department on Friday said it has quietly offered a $10 million reward since January for information leading to those behind the Sept 11, 2012 attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi.
November 16, 2013
The Sun is set to "flip upside down" within weeks as its magnetic field reverses polarity in an event that will send ripple effects throughout the solar system.
November 16, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 495 (Pujara 113, Rohit 111*, Tendulkar 74, Shillingford 5-179) beat West Indies 182 (Ojha 5-40) and 187 (Ramdin 53*, Ojha 5-49, Ashwin 4-89) by an innings and 126 runs
Sachin Tendulkar was given a lap of honour on the shoulders of his team-mates
November 15, 2013
CHENNAI: The worst fears for the chess fans backing defending champion Viswanathan Anand came true as the Indian blundered in a drawn endgame to go down against challenger Magnus Carlsen in the fifth game of the World Chess Championship on Friday.
November 15, 2013
COLOMBO: External affairs Minister Salman Khurshid expressed regret on Friday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not visit Jaffna, a feat undertaken by his British counterpart David Cameron, who became the first head of government to visit the war-torn northern province in Sri Lanka since its independence in 1948.
November 15, 2013
LONDON: It's a question pondered by philosophers, scientists and the devout since the dawn of time: is there an afterlife?
November 15, 2013
COLOMBO: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron made an historic visit on Friday to Sri Lanka's former war-zone, stealing the spotlight from a Commonwealth summit after the host, President Mahinda Rajapakse, warned against passing judgement on his country's past.
November 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Obama on Thursday nominated Indian-American physician Vivek Murthy, who is only 36, to be surgeon general of the United States.
US President: Barack Obama
November 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: Ancient Mars likely had a thick atmosphere that was warm enough to support oceans of liquid water, a critical ingredient for life, according to Nasa.
Nasa's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launches this month and is likely to arrive at Mars in September 2014, will investigate how Mars lost its atmosphere.
