March 13, 2013
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with 58 current and former students at a school where an ex-teacher was accused of taking bondage-style photos of pupils, a lawyer for the district said on Tuesday.
The settlement would resolve nearly half of the 129 claims filed by former students of Miramonte Elementary School, attorney David Holmquist said.
March 13, 2013
India's largest state-run bank has 1,500 openings for entry-lavel clerks, but its job advertisement generated 1.7 million applications. The chairman of the State Bank of India attributed the huge interest to good marketing and attractive employment terms.
March 13, 2013
Washington — With the Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), believed to be behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, remaining Pakistan's most problematic militant group, the US fears an Islamabad-linked terrorist attack against India could undo efforts to improve ties between them.
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
