March 13, 2013
In February the Indian government allowed the two Italian marines accused of killing a pair of Indian fisherman to return to Italy to vote in national elections and to celebrate Easter with their families. Now Italy has announced it would not send the marines back to India to face trial, making many opposition politicians angry.
March 13, 2013
RAIPUR: After initial survey, archaeologists claim to have found remains of a 2,500-year-old city, buried at Tarighat in Durg district of Chhattisgarh where excavation work is to begin shortly.
March 13, 2013
VATICAN CITY: Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Tuesday, signaling that cardinals had failed on their first vote of the papal conclave to choose a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church.
March 12, 2013
India aborted a test of its first domestically developed long-range missile after it veered off course. Less than a year ago India successfully launched a nuclear-capable missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers.
Missile Agni V is displayed during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2013
March 12, 2013
Washington — Describing forging deeper partnerships with emerging powers as a key pillar of US strategy for the Asia-Pacific, a top aide of President Barack Obama says Washington not just accepts, but fervently supports India's rise.
"US and Indian interests powerfully converge in the Asia-Pacific, where India has much to give and much to gain," Obama's National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon said discussing US policy in the Asia-Pacific region at Asia Society in New York Monday.
March 12, 2013
IPOH (Malaysia): India will have to put behind the disappointment of their back-to-back defeats and come out all guns blazing against arch-rivals Pakistan in their next round-robin match on Tuesday, to keep their chances alive in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament.
March 11, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 570 for 4 dec and 116 for 1 (Sangakkara 49*, Dilshan 63*) lead Bangladesh 638 (Mushfiqur 200, Ashraful 190, Nasir 100) by 48 runs
March 11, 2013
NEW DELHI: Expressing disappointment over 5 per cent growth, World Bank today said the Indian economy will soon get back to high growth path of 6 per cent next year and more thereafter.
"India is going to grow by 6 per cent next year and we hope for even more increase in future," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said.
Kim, who is on a three-day visit to India, was talking to reporters after meeting Finance Minister P Chidambaram here.
March 11, 2013
MOHALI: Australia's hapless tour of India took an extraordinary turn on Monday with a miffed vice-captain Shane Watson leaving for home hours after being sensationally dropped from the team for the third Test along with three other key players, raising intense speculation of a revolt within the squad.
March 11, 2013
WASHINGTON: Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has received rare praise from US President Barack Obama, for his sense of humour.
Jindal, the first-ever Indian American governor of a US state, has been a vocal critic of Obama and is seen as a potential 2016 presidential candidate from the Republican party.
