July 19, 2013
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi's stamp was written all over as BJP on Friday announced its election campaign committee for 2014 polls including top leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley who will work under him.
July 19, 2013
WASHINGTON: In a striking development, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia bureau in the US state department.
July 18, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee extended losses for the second day, dropping 33 paise to 59.67 against dollar, after Fed's comments strengthened the US currency and RBI drained only a fifth of its target in an auction to curb liquidity.
July 18, 2013
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta was ordered to pay a $13.9 million civil penalty and banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company for having illegally passed corporate secrets to former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, a top US regulator said on Wednesday.
July 18, 2013
PATNA: Postmortem reports on 22 children who died this week after eating a school lunch in Bihar confirmed that insecticide was either in the food or cooking oil, a doctor said on Thursday.
The postmortem reports on the children who died confirmed that insecticide was either in the food or cooking oil, a doctor said today.
July 18, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Washington, DC – While celebrating strides in the India-US strategic partnership, influential US lawmakers have called for more action and a working agenda to reinvigorate commercial ties.
July 17, 2013
WASHINGTON: Scientists still have doubts over the theory that Earth arose from the collision of asteroids, as its composition doesn't resemble that of meteoroids — the small particles that break off from asteroids.
July 17, 2013
LONDON: Britain on Wednesday legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval, clearing the way for the first same-sex weddings next summer.
Britain on Wednesday legalized gay marriage
July 17, 2013
NEW YORK: Oops! PayPal, the online money-transfer company, has accidentally credited a man in Delaware a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800, making him by far the richest man in the world.
July 17, 2013
SINGAPORE: Three Indians were among 25 foreigners who were sentenced up to four weeks in prison by a Singaporean court for submitting forged documents to obtain work permits.
The city state's manpower ministry said on Wednesday that all of them submitted forged academic certificates to apply for work passes, as they did not possess required university degree.
