March 22, 2013
Bikram yoga founder's former student alleges the yogi prevented her from teaching because she refused his sexual advances
Bikram Choudhury and his wife Rajashree pose with yoga competitors at 2010's International Yoga Asana Championships.
March 22, 2013
Washington — The US wants to increase commercial space cooperation with India to create opportunities for US and Indian companies as their "very capable space science communities" have much to offer each other.
"India's first Indian Mars Orbiter Mission, slated for October 2013, is an exciting opportunity for US-India collaboration," Geoffrey Pyatt, principal deputy assistant secretary for South Asia said opening a meeting of the US-India Civil Space Joint Working Group.
March 22, 2013
Wild leopards are expanding their territories in India and encroaching on towns and villages. A new study suggests the animals may become even more menacing than Europe's urban fox.
March 22, 2013
Sri Lanka would like to regain control of India-owned tanks in the northeastern port of Trincomalee. According to Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, the tanks are not in use by India. Rambukwella maintains that the move is not meant as retaliation for India's recent vote to censure Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.
March 21, 2013
NEW DELHI: Starting a new venture anywhere in the world is fraught with challenges, but in India, start-ups face even more daunting hurdles.
There are regulatory burdens and policy uncertainties. In the past decade India's start-up ecosystem has developed phenomenally but remains quite immature relative to the world's famous entrepreneurial hotspots such as Silicon Valley.
March 21, 2013
An Iraq War veteran who joined the U.S. Army two days after 9/11 has written a powerful open letter to former President George W. Bush and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney accusing them of war crimes, "plunder" and "the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."
March 21, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has to spend another three-and-a-half-years in jail in the Mumbai serial blasts case, today said he is ‘heart broken’ and under ‘emotional distress’ after the Supreme Court verdict.
March 21, 2013
MELBOURNE: An Indian-origin male nurse lost his registration and was banned from practising in Australia for at least a year after he was found guilty of professional misconduct for feeding dishwashing liquid to an elderly patient apparently due to his poor English skills.
Bhavesh Shah was practicing as a nurse at the Sydney Adventist Hospital at Wahroonga in May 2009 when he treated a 79-year-old patient who had come in for a hip replacement.
March 21, 2013
LONDON: High doses of statins, a drug prescribed to lower cholesterol, could dramatically increase the risk of kidney damage, a new study has warned.
Researchers from University of British Columbia and the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal studied more than two million statin users.
March 21, 2013
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was once a popular vacation spot for colonial adventurers and upper-class Pakistanis. A group of 20 Buddhist monks recently made a pilgrimage to the to the area to visit the Takht-e-Bahi monastery, 106 miles from Islamabad. Officials are eager to promote the country’s rich Buddhist heritage.
