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.
March 19, 2013
Tuesday India's lower house approved a bill that toughens punishments for rapists and other sexual offenders. The legislation, which now goes to the upper house for approval, provides for a minimum 20-year prison sentence for gang-rape, that can be extended to life in jail.
March 19, 2013
Chennai — DMK chief M. Karunanidhi Tuesday quit the Congress-led UPA and its government expressing dismay on India's stand over Sri Lanka at the United National Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
"Continuing in this government will be an injustice to the Sri Lankan Tamils," the former Tamil Nadu chief minister told the media.
March 19, 2013
By Staff Reporter & Columnist, Sam Prasad Jillella
BALTIMORE, MD — America’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), popularly known as “Obama Care,” was passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009, and by the Congress on March 21, 2010.
March 19, 2013
LONDON: Herbal medicines are causing millions in India to develop kidney failure and bladder cancer.
March 18, 2013
Bangladesh has banned an umpire for 10 years after a sting operation showed him apparently willing to fix matches. Nadir Shah was one of six umpires caught in the undercover investigation, including three from Sri Lanka and two from Pakistan.
