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.
August 22, 2013
FORT MEADE ( Maryland, US): Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history by providing files to Wikileaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks case: Manning sentenced to 35 years imprisonment
August 22, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Indian Ambassador Mrs. Nirupama Rao addressing the gathering at her Residence on India’s 67th Independence Day. Photo credit: Embassy of India, Washington
August 21, 2013
MUMBAI: The Indian rupee could touch 70 against the US dollar in a month or so, although some revival is expected in the currency by the end of the year, Deutsche Bank said in a report on Wednesday.
