August 25, 2013
Mumbai: Three days after the brutal Shakti mills gang rape in Mumbai, the police have managed to arrest all five accused. The remaining two culprits were picked up on Sunday.
August 25, 2013
CHENNAI: The year-long campaign of 'Bring back auto meters' has clocked a success with the Tamil Nadu government announcing revised autorickshaw fares and mandatory meters. Autorickshaw drivers in Chennai and other TN cities have been infamous for fleecing passengers after discarding the meters about 15 years ago.
August 25, 2013
AYODHYA: Former BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti and sitting MLA Ram Chandra Yadav were arrested early on Sunday morning, even as a defiant VHP plans to go ahead with its proposed yatra in this temple town.
Vedanti was arrested around 7am this morning when he had left his house here for the parikrama, police said.
August 25, 2013
NEW YORK: World number one Serena Williams would become the oldest US Open women's champion in the Open era if she defends her crown in the Flushing Meadows fortnight that begins Monday.
If Williams wins the final she would pass Australian Margaret Court to become the oldest US Open women's winner.
August 24, 2013
WASHINGTON: Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, officials say, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how — and if — the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case will be allowed to live as a female behind bars.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: The falling rupee has thrown a googly at the Indian Premier League ( IPL), with team owners having to pay a higher fee to their foreign players with whom they have dollar contracts till the end of this season while local players have been left sulking since they wouldn't reap the benefit as their fees are fixed at 46 to a dollar.
August 24, 2013
MUMBAI: India is fast emerging as a talent hotspot for the global cyber-crime industry amid slow hiring in the traditional software industry, the lure of easy money, and lack of law enforcement, according to computer security experts.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Government is in talks with the private sector on the issue of providing reservation in jobs, but wants to do it in an "amicable way", social justice minister Kumari Selja said on Saturday.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appeared to rule out early Lok Sabha polls, saying "our aim is to go till the very end".
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Several US-based technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo, not only helped the National Security Agency in spying on their users but were also paid millions of dollars by the US government for their efforts.
