April 3, 2013
NEW DELHI — In a country long defined by its poverty, it’s easy now to find India’s rich.
April 3, 2013
MUMBAI: Alongside heavy discounts on airfares, airlines are now setting up major deterrents to cancellations. Jet Airways on Tuesday revised its cancellation charges from a flat Rs 1,050 on all domestic flights to penalties ranging from Rs 200 to Rs 2,000.
April 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: Terming business mood in the country as unduly pessimistic, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday the Indian economy is facing a temporary downturn and can return to 8 per cent growth path with speedy and decisive government action.
April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: Big Pharma found little support from the small guy on the street as the Indian Supreme Court's decision to reject patent claims of the drug maker Novartis for its celebrated cancer medicine Gleevec reverberated across the world.
April 3, 2013
Women in India have been increasingly applying for gun licenses after the rape and murder of a woman in Delhi last December. The number of applications has doubled since the incident, when a young medical student was attacked by six men and assaulted with a metal rod.
Protesting rape culture in India
April 2, 2013
Washington — Calling a new Medical Council of India (MCI) entrance test adopted by some state governments as discriminatory to NRI students, several Indian community organizations in the US have sought its gradual implementation over two years.
April 2, 2013
Washington — The White House has urged the Senate to swiftly confirm Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan to what is "often called the nation's second-highest court", the US court of appeals for the American capital.
April 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: The US has started accepting petition for the much sought H-1B work visas, amidst fear from industry experts and officials that the Congressional mandated quota of 65,000 might get filled up in the first week itself.
