March 17, 2013
WASHINGTON: Noted journalist Aparisim Bobby Ghosh, an Indian national, has been named the editor of Time International.
Bobby joined Time in 1998 after ten years as a journalist in India and two on the staff of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.
March 16, 2013
UNITED NATIONS: Muslim and western nations on Friday overcame deep divisions to agree a historic United Nations declaration setting out a code of conduct for combating violence against women.
Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations agreed to language stating that violence against women and girls could not be justified by "any custom, tradition or religious consideration."
March 16, 2013
WASHINGTON: Maryland is poised to become the 18th US state to abolish executions after lawmakers voted on Friday to end use of the death penalty.
Maryland: Death Penalty Repeal
The Maryland House of Delegates voted 88 to 56 in favor of abolishing executions, after the state Senate passed the same bill earlier this month.
March 16, 2013
Actress Anushka Sharma believes that Bollywood item songs should not be blamed for depicting vulgarity on screen as such songs are part of entertainment.
Bollywood Actress: Anushka Sharma
March 16, 2013
IPOH (Malaysia): A controversial penalty stroke enabled Malaysia to hold India to a 2-2 draw in the final round-robin match of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament on Saturday.
A controversial penalty-stroke decision with 50 seconds left on the clock helped Malaysia force a 2-2 draw against India.
March 16, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 283 for 0 (Dhawan 185*, Vijay 83*) trail Australia 408 (Starc 99, Smith 92, Cowan 86, Warner 71, Ishant 3-72, Jadeja 3-77) by 125 runs
Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay gave India a solid platform
March 16, 2013
New Delhi — Three leading Muslim groups are against the government decision to lower the age for consensual sex, saying it will be a blow to family and social values.
Some of the groups are asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw the proposal.
The Jamaat Islami Hind, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and the Muslim Majlis Mushwarat, an apex body of Muslim social and religious groups, said the move will have "dangerous consequences" for the society.
March 16, 2013
NEW DELHI: A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said Saturday. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.
March 16, 2013
India is angry over a resolution adopted by Pakistan's National Assembly condemning the execution of a Kashmiri man, who was convicted in the 2001 attack on India's Parliament. Indian parliament passed its own resolution calling upon the Pakistani assembly not to support "extremist and terrorist elements."
March 15, 2013
BEIJING: China's legislature elected Li Keqiang as premier on Friday, installing an English-speaking bureaucrat as the man in charge of the economy, the world's second-largest, and its aim of reviving growth through consumer-led expansion.
