April 7, 2013
India’s Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, will battle it out in next year’s general elections. Many are wondering who the next premier would be, as Rahul Gandhi seems reluctant to take the job.
April 6, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Mumbai Indians 148 for 6 (Pollard 57*) beat Chennai Super Kings 139 for 9 (Dhoni 51) by nine runs
Kieron Pollard acknowledges the crowd after reaching his half-century, Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians, IPL, Chennai, April 6, 2013
April 6, 2013
Boxer Vijender Singh will not participate in upcoming events in Cyprus and Cuba, after it was alleged that the Olympic medalist used heroin. Vijender claims he is not involved in the scandal, which links him to an alleged dealer in a $24 million drug haul.
April 6, 2013
As Kim Jong-un continues to ramp up the tough guy rhetoric and brandishes a gun for the cameras, American scientists assess North Korea's capabilities to see if the dictator could actually fire a nuclear warhead at its neighbors
April 6, 2013
Brief Scoredcard: Rajasthan Royals 165 for 7 (Dravid 65, Binny 40, Yadav 4-24) beat Delhi Daredevils 160 for 6 (Warner 77, Cooper 3-30) by 5 runs
Rahul Dravid gestures after completing his fifty, Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals, IPL, Delhi, April 6, 2013
April 6, 2013
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on April 5 that it had received sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year 2014.
April 6, 2013
New Delhi — Indian firms should work to cash in on the demographic dividends on offer in the African continent, an Africa-based Indian corporate leader said here.
"The youth of both India and Africa are becoming very attractive. While the western world, Russia, China, Japan are all graying, the median age in India is 25 and in Africa it is only 18," said Manoj Kohli, CEO (International), Bharti Airtel, who is based in Kenya.
April 5, 2013
Nearly 1,000 acid attacks occur every year in India. One young victim is campaigning to prevent them.
April 5, 2013
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, dipped to 7.6%, mostly because more people stopped looking for work.
The jobs weakness may indicates that companies were worried last month about steep government spending cuts known as sequestration.
April 5, 2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Obama called the California attorney general to apologize for causing a stir with his compliment about her looks. Some called the comment sexist, especially in light of Obama's male-dominated staff.
