April 11, 2013
LAHORE: Former President Pervez Musharraf has filed an appeal against the rejection of his nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in Pakistan's Punjab province.
The appeal against the rejection of the papers for the constituency in Kasur was filed in an election tribunal yesterday, the last day to challenge decisions made by returning officers.
April 11, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 158 for 2 (Gayle 85*, Kohli 35) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 154 for 8 (Gambhir 59, RP 3-27) by eight wickets
An all too familiar sight in the IPL: Gayle's unbeaten 50-ball knock comprised of four 4s and nine 6s
April 11, 2013
WASHINGTON: Sri Srinivasan's confirmation hearing that could make him the first ever Indian-American to serve as a federal judge began on Wednesday, but he is already being talked up to the United States Supreme Court.
April 11, 2013
NEW DELHI: Gold prices plunged to over ten months low by losing Rs 505 to Rs 29,470 per ten gram in the national capital today on frantic selling by stockists amid restricted buying, driven by a steep fall in overseas markets.
April 11, 2013
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States were on high alert for a North Korean missile launch on Thursday as the hermit kingdom turned its attention to celebrating its ruling Kim dynasty and appeared to tone down rhetoric of impending war.
April 11, 2013
Washington — Describing foreign students, nearly four in ten of whom come from India or China, as a "potential asset" to the US economy, a leading think tank wants Congress to ease their way to stay and work.
The number of all international students studying at US higher educational institutions has grown exponentially in the past 60 years, according to new research from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Programme, Immigration Facts on Foreign Students.
April 11, 2013
The son of multimillionaire politician Deepak Bhardwaj is being accused of paying $1 million to have his late father assassinated. Nitesh Bhardwaj was fearful that his father would write him out of his will and divorce his mother for his 29-year-old ex girlfriend.
April 10, 2013
A film festival in the United Kingdom is recognizing 100 years of Bollywood cinema with screening of such legendary classics like Mughal-e-Azam and Raja Harishchandra. Mughal-e-Azam was the most expensive film ever made.
April 10, 2013
LONDON: Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for pioneering the development of "test tube babies", died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness, his university said.
April 10, 2013
WASHINGTON: As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as too dirty, too demanding or just plain unappealing.
