April 23, 2013
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday asked China to revert to the status quo position in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh where troops of both countries were in a face-to-face situation after Chinese forces intruded nearly 10kms inside Indian territory eight days ago.
April 23, 2013
BOSTON: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room on Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, a crime that carries a possible death sentence.
April 22, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 186 for 5 (Hussey 88, Raina 51, Faulkner 3-20) beat Rajasthan Royals 185 for 4 (Watson 101, Binny 36*, Ashwin 2-20) by five wickets
Michael Hussey's 51-ball 88 set up Chennai Super Kings' five-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in Chennai
April 22, 2013
WASHINGTON: The current H-1B visa system, the numerical limit of which was set by the Congress in 1990, is incredibly disruptive to business planning and operations of US employers, software giant Microsoft told lawmakers on Monday.
April 22, 2013
New Delhi — Alleging "massive cover up" in 2G spectrum allocation, the BJP said Monday that it had sought adjournment of question hour in both houses of parliament to raise the issue of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) report on the scandal.
April 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal will no doubt be the cynosure of all eyes but the India Open Super Series starting on Tuesday, will hold more significance for the country's other shuttlers, who would look to prove their mettle at the highest level.
April 22, 2013
WASHINGTON: Continuing its lobbying among the American lawmakers over Indo-US bilateral relationship, the Indian government has spent USD 180,000 (about Rs 1 crore) to its lobbyists here in the first quarter of 2013.
April 22, 2013
A second five year old rape victim was abandoned by her family at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences according to parliamentary leader Sushma Swaraj. There has been a 336 percent increase in child rapes since 2001.
New discovery of second child rape victim
April 22, 2013
Although Narendra Modi has been fiercely campaigning to be the Prime Minister BJP candidate, the riots that killed over 2,000 people 11 years ago are coming back to haunt him. Many think Modi is too polarizing of an individual to be Prime Minister of India.
April 21, 2013
WASHINGTON: India has a one trillion dollar infrastructure deficit over the next five years, finance minister P Chidambaram has told the World Bank, which wants private sector participation to bridge the funding gap.
Chidambaram met World Bank president Jim Yong Kim on Saturday morning on the sidelines of the annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
