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.
May 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Sahara Group accused the BCCI of "betrayal of trust" while rejecting claims of the Board that the IPL team was to be blamed for the controversy surrounding the franchise fee, leading to Pune Warriors pulling out of the Twenty20 tournament.
May 22, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Bethesda, MD – Inaugurating an exhibition on the ‘Sikh Heritage of India’ at the Gandhi Memorial Center, on May 18, Saturday afternoon, Indian Ambassador Mrs. Nirupama Rao lauded the contributions of Sikhs to their motherland and the Sikh philosophy of humanism, pluralism and universal brotherhood.
May 22, 2013
PANAJI: The next 'in' feature for your smart phone might very well be gesture-recognition and it is a young Goan who is behind the innovation. The creation is set to make touchscreen technology passe and would allow users to interact with their devices through thin air.
May 22, 2013
PANNAJI: India on Wednesday successfully test-fired the 290km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy's latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash off the coast of Goa.
India is readying several different versions of the missile which includes land attack, anti-ship and submarine- launched versions.
May 21, 2013
WELINGTON: A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011.
Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26, are defending the charges in the high court in Hamilton, Fairfax NZ News reported on Tuesday.
The woman has claimed that the four men raped her in the course of an evening during the Hamilton 400 weekend, the V8 supercar racing event that took place on the streets of that New Zealand city.
