December 26, 2012
HONOLULU: President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished "fiscal cliff" negotiations with Congress, the White House said on Tuesday.
December 26, 2012
India's government ordered a special inquiry into the gang-rape of a student which has sparked mass protests in Delhi and in other cities. Meanwhile police announced the arrest of 10 men on a Christmas Eve gang-rape related charges in rural Tamil Nadu, shining the spotlight on the frightening levels of violence against women.
December 26, 2012
BEIJING: China started service on Wednesday on the world's longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country's rapid and -- sometimes troubled -- super fast rail network.
World's longest bullet train service begins in China
December 26, 2012
Animal rights groups in Nepal are pleading for the life of a lovelorn elephant is being hunted down by an army execution squad. The male tusker, named Dhrube by locals, has been targeting humans on a killing spree in southern Nepal after being kept from potential mates and is suspected of killing up to 15 people over four years.
December 26, 2012
In 2002 a program aimed at digitizing nearly 20 million land records was introduced in Karnataka, India’s southern state. It was hailed as a landmark use of computers to combat bureaucracy and corruption; however, 10 years later the experiment shows that technology can only be part of the solution.
December 25, 2012
Hundreds gathered to watch the festive scene in Manger Square, outside the Church of Nativity, where choral groups sang and children ran around in holiday costumes.
December 25, 2012
New Delhi — Cricket and Bollywood Tuesday joined hands against gender discrimination as Unicef brand ambassadors Irfan Pathan and Priyanka Chopra launched a website to support adolescent girls.
The website - The Cheer-O-Meter (www.d2c.in) comes as an extension of IPL team Delhi Daredevil's "Dare to Care" campaign for adolescent girls.
Championing the cause of reducing discrimination against women, the campaign is meant to promote education and equal opportunities for girls.
December 25, 2012
Kolkata — Claiming that the central government was taking away West Bengal's entire revenue for servicing its debt, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused it of being insensitive towards the needs of her state.
December 25, 2012
Sonali Mukherjee, an acid attack victim from Dhanbad, has walked away a millionaire from India’s popular TV quiz show “Kaun Banega Crorepati”. Instead of hiding herself, Mukherjee has decided to “stand up and scream and shout against the violence.”
December 24, 2012
Washington: A renowned Indian-American inventor at IBM, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, has been nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Along with Mr. Srinivasan, President Obama named 12 eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science and 10 extraordinary inventors for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors.
