July 24, 2013
MUMBAI: US Vice-President Joe Biden on Wednesday said New Delhi should take fresh initiatives to help remove trade barriers and inconsistencies in tax regime and this could propel annual bilateral trade to $500 billion.
July 24, 2013
MANILA: Afghanistan's first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organizer, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday singled out Afghanistan's Habiba Sarabi, a 57-year-old doctor, for her "bold exercise of leadership to build up a functioning provincial government against great odds."
July 23, 2013
LONDON: The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain's new prince on Tuesday with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.
Prince William's wife Kate gives birth to royal baby boy.
July 23, 2013
WASHINGTON: As BJP president Rajnath Singh is here batting for visa for Narendra Modi, 65 Members of Parliament have written letters to President Barack Obama, urging the US administration to maintain the current policy of denying visa to him.
July 23, 2013
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.
Mourners pray at the coffin of a victim killed during an attack on a prison in Taj
July 22, 2013
"Our two nations are striving to make progress and this relationship plays a really important role in that, as it should," Joe Biden said.
July 22, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee today fell by 37 paise, its biggest drop in two weeks, to close at 59.72 following month-end dollar demand from oil importers and some custodian banks coupled with capital outflows.
A weak dollar overseas failed to restrict the rupee's decline, a forex dealer said.
July 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said he does not want him to become India's Prime Minister as he does not have secular credentials. The prominent economist also criticised Modi's model of governance saying he did not approve of it.
July 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said he does not want him to become India's Prime Minister as he does not have secular credentials. The prominent economist also criticised Modi's model of governance saying he did not approve of it.
July 22, 2013
This undated electron microscope image made availalbe by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel corona virus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow.
