September 15, 2013
DEHRADUN: Rs 1.90 crore in cash were recovered from a bank locker pulled out of the debris at Kedarnath during cleaning operations prior to resumption of prayers at the Himalayan shrine on September 11, a senior police official said on Sunday.
September 15, 2013
NEW DELHI: Accusing Narendra Modi of being "desperate" to become Prime Minister, Congress on Sunday said it will remain a "pipe-dream" and the "divisive" leader's nomination will help the UPA to return to power for a third term.
September 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Syrian rebels were responsible for an August 21 chemical gas attack but, in an interview broadcast on Sunday, he welcomed Putin's diplomatic role in the crisis.
September 15, 2013
WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY: The world's oldest man, a gin rummy-playing, one-time sugarcane worker born in Spain, has died at 112 in New York state, a funeral home said on Saturday.
September 15, 2013
AKORA KHATTAK (Pakistan): He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban's one-eyed leader an "angel" and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad.
September 15, 2013
BANGALORE: Drape yourself in nine yards or cover yourself from head-to-toe is what the Karnataka government is willy-nilly telling its women employees.
September 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal reached on Saturday to strip Syria of chemical weapons but said much remains to be done and warned Damascus to comply with the accord.
September 14, 2013
CHENNAI: Women in the city who have the money will no more have to give birth in cramped labour wards surrounded by surgical equipment and stark white and green walls.
September 14, 2013
NEW DELHI: India's envoy to China Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the US and his position in Beijing will be taken by Ashok K Kantha.
India’s Ambassador Appointee to the US Dr. S. Jaishankar
September 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: Acknowledging that India and the US have differing views on the issue of a military strike on Syria, the Obama administration has said that the UN Security Council needs to enforce international law, but it shouldn't be an impediment that can "protect somebody like Assad".
