May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON: The United States Senate on Thursday voted 97-0 to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the prestigious US Court of Appeals in the capital, the highest judicial appointment achieved by an Indian-American, and a precursor to his widely forecast elevation to the US Supreme Court before the end of President Obama's second term.
May 24, 2013
Mumbai Police on Friday indicated it would not extend the deadline for Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan to appear before it for questioning in the IPL betting scandal, saying “he has been asked to present himself by 5 pm today“.
May 24, 2013
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a proposal by the Department of AIDS Control for the implementation of the National AIDS Control Support Project (NACSP) at a cost of Rs. 2,550 crore.
May 24, 2013
Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving the longstanding problem of twin prime conjecture.
There has been a breakthrough in number theory, with Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang coming up with a result that is seen as a step towards solving the twin prime conjecture, a longstanding problem in mathematics.
May 23, 2013
The latest in a string of recent cricket-related police inquiries has Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf under investigation in Mumbai for spot-fixing. Amid media reports of the investigation, Rauf has been booted out of next month’s Champions Trophy in England.
May 23, 2013
Her inventive, carefully-crafted and hard to categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world
London: American author Lydia Davis was declared the winner of the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
May 23, 2013
Exposure in the womb to chemicals like Bisphenol-A (BPA) and Diethylstilbestrol (DES) can increase an offspring''s risk of breast cancer
May 23, 2013
An Indian man bathes as a woman prepares to wash clothes at a lake on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
May 23, 2013
California-based law firm Aiman-Smith & Marcy said that iGate’s head of investor relations Araceli Roiz was pregnant with Murthy’s child
May 23, 2013
Washington — Twelve-year-old Indian-origin boy Sathwik Karnik won the 2013 National Geographic Bee by correctly naming Chimborazo, a peak in Ecuador, as the farthest point on earth from the Equator.
A seventh grader from King Philip Regional Middle School in Norfolk, Massachusetts, in the US, he won the 25th edition of the bee in a heated final against 13-year-old Conrad Oberhaus of Lincolnshire, Illinois.
