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.
June 2, 2013
CHENNAI: Bowing to all-round pressure, N Srinivasan on Sunday agreed to "step aside" as BCCI president under a compromise formula that brought back former chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member "interim arrangement" to run the Board, more than a fortnight after the spot-fixing scandal rocked cricketing world.
June 2, 2013
NEW DELHI: India has asked the US to "temporarily" hand over LeT terrorist David Headley for a year and extradite his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to get more information about the conspiracy hatched to carry out Mumbai terror attacks.
June 2, 2013
NEW DELHI: Government's efforts to promote India as an investment destination does not seem to be yielding fruits as FDI inflows registered 38 per cent decline to $22.42 billion in 2012-13 compared to the previous year.
