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.
March 20, 2013
This is the first test-firing of an underwater supersonic cruise missile anywhere in the world and the missile travelled its complete range of over 290km
March 20, 2013
NEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni still feels shy to speak to his idol Sachin Tendulkar off the field but says his honest opinions on a cricket field about team strategy, including occasional differences of opinions with the veteran, might have landed him the India captaincy in 2007.
March 20, 2013
Washington —Amid a contentious debate over comprehensive immigration reforms, a top Republican senator has introduced a bill to eliminate what he calls "fraud and abuse" from H-1B visa programme coveted by Indian techies.
March 20, 2013
Two men appeared in a court in Agra accused of harassing a British tourist who jumped off her hotel balcony fearing a sex attack. The British woman was due to return home after recording her statement in court.
