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.
March 20, 2013
India has the fifth-biggest number of billionaires in the world. But like other emerging economies such as China, its charitable giving still lags behind that in the West where the tradition of wealthy businessmen donating chunks of their fortunes is much more deeply ingrained.
March 20, 2013
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested four Tuesday over an attack that killed five policemen. One of the detained is a Pakistani member of the of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
March 20, 2013
NEW DELHI: Italy has cocked a snook at India by refusing to let its marines face Indian law. But ironic as it is, 109 Indian prisoners are reportedly languishing in Italian jails and the Indian government seems to have done precious little to help their case.
March 20, 2013
CHENNAI: DMK on Tuesday withdrew from the UPA to pressure the Manmohan Singh government to harden its stand against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations of Tamils, enhancing the ruling coalition's vulnerability to political calculations of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati but without creating a real crisis.
March 19, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 346 (Sangakkara 139, Chandimal 102) and 160 for 3 (Dilshan 57, Sangakkara 55) beat Bangladesh 240 (Mominul 64, Herath 5-68) and 265 (Tamim 59, Herath 7-89) by seven wickets
March 19, 2013
New Delhi — The Delhi High Court was Wednesday told by the government that Vedanta Resources Plc and other companies, named in a petition alleging illegal foreign funding for the Congress and the BJP, are not international entities.
The home ministry, through an affidavit, informed the court that information has been obtained on the status of six of seven companies named in the petition and except for one, none of them was found to be foreign firms.
