September 17, 2013
NEW DELHI: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have bought shares worth $1 billion in the past eight trading sessions following RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's recent announcements, a Deutsche Bank report said.
September 17, 2013
ISLAMABAD: Asserting that people had given him the mandate to improve ties with neighbours, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan is keen to have a comprehensive dialogue with India for the resolution of all issues including Kashmir.
September 16, 2013
WASHINGTON: The tiara had barely been placed on her head and the customary tears of joy had just emerged when racist taunts erupted on social media, marring the moment of triumph for the first ever Miss America of Indian origin.
September 16, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Washington Navy Yard was placed on lockdown after multiple shots were fired inside a building on the base, the U.S. Navy said. Four people were killed, according to several news reports. The Navy confirmed multiple fatalities, but would not immediately confirm that figure.
September 16, 2013
NEW DELHI: When he holds only his first policy review this week, India's new central bank chief has to confront what may well prove to be the biggest challenge of his time in office.
September 16, 2013
In the beginning of the last decade, a simple webcam and a fledgling, though unsteady internet, provided a lifeline of emotional connect between students abroad and their parents and friends back home.
That was a video-conference in a very simple form. Cut to the present: we are witnessing a generational shift in technology; so much so that it is quietly triggering a social revolution in the educational and health care sectors in the remote corners of our country.
September 16, 2013
WASHINGTON: A UK-based physicist has claimed that it is possible to build a time machine, but it will only travel to the future.
September 16, 2013
NEW DELHI: The postmortem conducted on Anmol Sarna, who died in hospital after being found in a pool of blood on a street in Kalkaji, south Delhi, has confirmed that the 20-year-old NRI from the US was beaten up before his death.
Friends of the deceased NRI gathered at Kalkaji police station in Delhi.
September 15, 2013
The heaviest of all known elementary particles, the top quark could decide the fate of the universe
New York: The universe may end in another 10 billion years or sooner if the heaviest of all the known elementary particles - the top quark - is even heavier than previously thought, scientists say.
September 15, 2013
Around 6.6 million children died before their fifth birthday last year, compared to 12.6 million in 1990.
Internally displaced Somali children play in a hut made from twigs and tattered cloth at an IDP camp in 2011
