August 27, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee hit a record low on Tuesday and posted its biggest single-day fall in nearly 18 years after the lower house of Parliament approved a nearly $20 billion plan to provide cheap grain to the poor, raising concerns the fiscal deficit will blow out even further.
August 26, 2013
WASHINGTON: Jonathan Wajskol, an Italian graphic designer who moved to the United States about three decades ago, has a life with the hallmarks of an immigrant success story: graduate studies at an American university; a successful international business with partners in Milan and Beijing; and a residence in Greenwich Village that he shares with his wife and two children.
August 26, 2013
Ragi on sale in Bangalore. Nationwide, ragi — which is one of the most expensive cereals in the US — accounts for less than one per cent of the cropped area and cereal production.
August 26, 2013
LONDON: In a distasteful postscript to their Ashes triumph, three top England players were on Monday at the centre of a huge controversy following reports that they allegedly urinated on the pitch at the Oval hours after the fifth and final Test ended last night.
August 26, 2013
Situation going from bad to worse, more so in metropolitan cities, says the apex court
The huge spurt in rape incidents across the country, including the Mumbai photo-journalist gangrape, today drew strong concerns from the Supreme Court which said that the situation is "going from bad to worse".
August 26, 2013
CHENNAI: Non-resident Indians are being wooed with higher rates of interest by several banks after the Reserve Bank of India allowed lenders to offer NRIs a better return than local depositors and relaxed reserve requirements on these deposits.
August 26, 2013
CANBERRA: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has outlined Australia's blueprint for future engagement with India.
"Australia's relationship with India has perhaps the greatest potential to grow out of all of Australia's significant bilateral relationships in Asia," Xinhua quoted Rudd as saying.
August 26, 2013
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Wipro chairman Azim Premji has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek the intervention of US President Barack Obama to remove provisions in a proposed immigration bill that are discriminatory towards Indian IT firms.
August 25, 2013
Washington — Indians have emerged as the third-largest immigrant group in the US behind Mexicans and the Chinese with their number touching nearly 1.9 million in 2011, according to a US think tank.
The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source.
August 25, 2013
Jayalalithaa says there are some outstanding issues which need to be addressed before the food security bill truly assures food security to the nation and in particular to Tamil Nadu
