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.
April 5, 2013
Forty-one people were killed and at least 50 injured when a residential building being constructed illegally in a suburb of Mumbai collapsed. More than 20 people remained missing Friday afternoon and three floors of the building remained to be searched
April 5, 2013
MUMBAI: India's strong stance on minor drug innovations could reverberate in national parliaments and courthouses of the developed world as Australia, the EU and Canada get ready to discuss and ban patent protection for frivolous improvements.
A top Australian government body on Wednesday asked for changes in its patent laws relating to drugs saying that the indiscriminate grant of patents to incremental innovations should be checked and that an independent review should be set up to vet these proposals.
April 4, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 156 for 5 (Gayle 92*, Bumrah 3-32) beat Mumbai Indians 154 for 5 (Karthik 60, Kumar 3-27) by two runs
Gayle single-handedly powered RCB to a fighting 156/5 before Vinay Kumar (3/27) picked up two crucial wickets in a tense final over finish
