March 27, 2013
Bush was granted almost 400,000 dollars for 8,000 square feet of office space in Dallas, plus 85,000 dollars in telephone costs. Another 60,000 dollars went to travel costs
Washington: The US government spent nearly 3.7 million dollars on former presidents in 2012, according to an analysis.
March 26, 2013
Son Heung-min scored in the sixth minute of injury time on Tuesday to give South Korea a 2-1 win over Qatar in the football World Cup qualifying match.
March 26, 2013
Islamabad/Lahore: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left for Dubai after a tiff with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, over the affairs of the PPP, leaving the party without its star campaigner for Pakistan’s general election.
March 26, 2013
Miami — India's Sania Mirza and American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands moved into the women's doubles quarter-finals of the Sony Open Miami Masters tennis while her compatriot Rohan Bopanna was knocked out from the second round.
The Indo-America duo of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands
March 26, 2013
Washington — US President Barack Obama yesterday said that it was time for a comprehensive and sensible reform to fix the country’s broken immigration system in order to attract “the best and the brightest” the world has to offer.
March 26, 2013
Durban — As leaders from the five BRICS nations, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of invitees, gather here for the BRICS Summit March 26-27, Africa will be the focus at the 5th edition.
In fact, the theme of the event itself is: "Brics and Africa: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialization", with a formal BRICS-Africa dialogue scheduled Wednesdy.
March 26, 2013
Skepticism and violence are preventing polio eradication in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan. Success in India shows that polio eradication is technically feasible according to a spokesman for the World Health Organization’s Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Polio around the world
March 25, 2013
Durban — The Indian delegation at the 5th BRICS Summit is keenly awaiting the meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with new Chinese President Xi Jinping, hoping for a new direction to Sino-India ties.
Keeping with the protocol, Manmohan Singh will be calling on Xi Wednesday evening on the margins of the Summit, which will be the first since the Chinese President took over the reins of the Asian neighbor.
March 25, 2013
Ford Motor Co.'s Indian unit has apologized for advertisements decried as demeaning to women. The ads caused an uproar online and came just after India passed a new law on violence.
March 25, 2013
M K Alagiri reacts to succession issue, says DMK not a mutt.
CHENNAI: In further signs of fissures within DMK, party chief M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party's pullout from the UPA.
