June 4, 2013
NEW DELHI: India, known as the "pharmacy to the world", on Monday defended its lucrative generic drug industry as safe and strongly regulated after the nation's biggest drug firm pleaded guilty to US charges of making adulterated medicines.
June 4, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR: Divorce among ethnic Indians in Malaysia is rapidly rising and if the trend continues, it is feared the community could be plagued with social problems.
Tamil Bell Club Malaysia national president SV Lingam said that if the trend continued, the Indian community would be plagued with social problems.
June 4, 2013
MUMBAI: Actor Vindu Dara Singh and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) principal Gurunath Meiyappan, arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, were on Tuesday granted bail by a local court.
IPL spot-fixing: Vindu Dara Singh, Gurunath Meiyappan get bail
June 4, 2013
BANGALORE: If you thought only impoverished districts in Karnataka were marrying off their little girls, you're wrong. The women and child welfare department gets at least four cases of child marriage every week in the IT city.
June 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: Income Tax department has decided to scan the salary structure of top executives of large corporates and PSUs to examine hidden tax opportunities in the perks and reimbursements made to them.
June 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device to forestall the spread of AIDS.
The device called PrePex is the only adult circumcision method, aside from conventional surgery, to gain WHO approval to date.
June 3, 2013
The discovery of three dead tigers this last week have baffled forest rangers who are investigating the causes of death. The carcasses of the three tigers were found at the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh.
A Royal Bengal Tiger
June 3, 2013
BANGALORE: A new infamy has botched Karnataka's claim to be socio-economically well-off: it has the highest maternal mortality rate among the southern states.
June 2, 2013
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 359 for 3 (Guptill 189*, Taylor 60, Williamson 55) beat England 273 (Trott 109*) by 86 runs
Martin Guptill was imperious at the Ageas Bowl
June 2, 2013
MUMBAI, India — A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.
