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.
May 21, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Rockville, MD – Squarely putting the responsibility of good films on viewers, acclaimed actor Farooque Sheikh has categorically stated that they are liable for the quality and caliber of cinema.
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON/CORK/DUBLIN: Apple Inc came under fire on Tuesday at a Senate hearing over an investigation that alleged the US high technology icon has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and paid little or no taxes to any government.
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON: Leading senators working to resolve a key issue on US immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa programme, officials said Tuesday, resolving one of two major hurdles to committee passage of the landmark bill.
May 20, 2013
Eight villagers, including three children, and a policeman have died in crossfire between security forces and Maoist rebels, but opposition politicians said the victims were "massacred." The incident is the latest in a simmering conflict between the left-wing insurgents and security forces in the rural areas of central and eastern India.
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON: An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds.
May 20, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO: The technology industry got much of what it wanted in a bill that overhauls federal immigration law.
Critics of Silicon Valley counter that its demands could imperil the overhaul as a whole, including the fate of millions of migrants who stand to gain legal papers.
May 20, 2013
New Delhi — India and China scripted a new chapter in their ties Monday as Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh candidly discussed their recent border row and decided to take steps for an early resolution of a dispute that triggered a war in 1962.
Li, making New Delhi his first halt in his foreign trip after assuming power in March, and Manmohan Singh also agreed that the world's two most populous nations and biggest economies had a lot in common despite some known differences.
May 20, 2013
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. The country's Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – displaced by sectarian unrest last year.
