June 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Terming the proposed new UK visa rules as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate", industry body CII today said these would lead to negative impact on business and tourism inflow from India to that country.
June 24, 2013
PATNA: In a veiled threat to BJP leaders on the offensive against him after JD(U) parted ways with the NDA partner, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that if he opened his mouth many of them would be in trouble.
Nitish Kumar has warned BJP leaders that many of them would land in trouble if he opened his mouth.
June 24, 2013
Scientists have pieced together the first-ever global topographic map of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, using radar observations from veteran NASA spacecraft.
June 23, 2013
BEIJING: Edward Snowden, a former private contractor with the CIA who leaked the controversial US secret surveillance programme, today made fresh claims about America's cyber espionage against China, including intensive hacking attacks on a top university here.
June 23, 2013
PATNA: Trashing JD(U)'s allegations that Narendra Modi was an "autocratic" and "divisive" leader, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked what "sin had he committed that provoked" the erstwhile ally to walk away after remaining together for 17 long years.
June 23, 2013
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton has fed speculation that she might run for the White House in 2016 by telling an audience in Canada that she would like to see a woman president in the United States in her lifetime.
June 22, 2013
The new US Trade Representative is expected to raise concerns about investing in India at a US-India CEO Summit, and later at the US-India Trade Policy Forum.
June 22, 2013
Dr. Mathew Varghese, an orthopedic surgeon who runs India’s only polio ward, sees about 150 patients a year – most of whom contracted polio in their infancy. Varghese has been trying to increase the resources for polio patients in India by educating surgeons around the country on how to address club foot and polio-related conditions.
June 22, 2013
KEDARNATH/DEHRADUN/CHENNAI: Hellish rains have turned Kedarnath into a ghost town. Though the outer structure of the temple seems intact, there are bodies piled up outside its gate.
According to reports, rain water gushed into the town from the summit behind the shrine carrying rocks and boulders, destroying everything on its path.
June 21, 2013
MOSCOW: World champion Viswanathan Anand put an end to two straight losses and settled for an easy draw with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the seventh round of Tal Memorial chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand had an easy game as black giving nothing away and comfortably split the point.
