August 24, 2013
Turning down an RTI appeal, the PMO said that releasing secret files about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's widow Emilie Schenkl and daughter Anita Bose may upset relations with foreign countries
August 23, 2013
Sushil Kumar said he was offered a few crores to throw the 66kg-category 2010 final in Moscow
New Delhi: India's two-time Olympic medal-winning wrestler Sushil Kumar told an Indian newspaper on Friday that he was offered money to lose a world championship title bout in 2010 in Moscow.
August 23, 2013
NEW DELHI: Out of favor Yuvraj Singh, hero of the 2011 cricket World Cup, said on Friday he was not thinking too much about the 2015 World Cup and was doing everything possible to regain his place in the Indian team.
The southpaw said he was not looking at the 2015 World Cup and his immediate goal was to get back in the team.
August 23, 2013
ISLAMABAD: Eyeing deeper economic ties with Sri Lanka, Pakistan today stressed the need for the early conclusion of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries.
August 23, 2013
MUMBAI: After the government's pep talk, the rupee on Friday made a stunning comeback, snapping a six-session losing streak to rise by 135 paise and close at 63.20, its second-biggest rise in a decade in absolute terms.
August 23, 2013
SANAA: A vow made in a phone call by the leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to carry out an attack that would "change the face of history" lay behind this month's closures of many western embassies, Yemen's president said.
August 23, 2013
NEW DELHI: The gang rape of a young photojournalist in Mumbai triggered an avalanche of outrage across the country on Friday and condemned as despicable and shameful stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi that led to nationwide protests.
August 23, 2013
NEW YORK: Fifty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech, nearly half of those who responded to a new poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
August 22, 2013
Outsiders often think of Silicon Valley as a constantly changing landscape, a place where fortunes rise and fall with the next great idea. Now some of the technology industry's biggest names are finding out that once you fall behind, it is pretty hard to catch up.
August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON: Back from a study trip to India last year, a Chicago university student recalls it as a visit full of adventures and beauty but also relentless sexual harassment, groping and worse.
