March 8, 2013
ISLAMABAD: Citing a series of recent attacks on minority Shias in Pakistan, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has directed authorities to take "stern action" against all banned militant groups, saying such assaults were bringing a bad name to the country and Islam.
March 8, 2013
MUMBAI: That India Inc has had an abysmally low representation of women at the top has been well chronicled over the years. But there is a bright spot emerging that gives hope. Women's presence in senior management roles has now crossed the double-digit mark, signaling the progress that they have made in the corporate world.
March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON: A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
March 8, 2013
NEW DELHI: The US has circulated a draft resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka on Thursday, which militates against India's consistent stand of non-interference in internal affairs of countries.
March 8, 2013
The brutal Delhi gang-rape case sparked off protests across the country forcing the govt to announce various safety measures for women. But a TOI survey reveals that 96% of women still feel unsafe in the national capital after sunset.
March 7, 2013
WASHINGTON: The 2016 US election might be a full three and a half years away, but that is not stopping pollsters from asking voters who has the early presidential edge. And the advantage goes to Hillary Clinton.
March 7, 2013
India’s leading economic strategist also stressed that the pace of poverty reduction in the country was within the target set by the Government
March 7, 2013
Though some small steps have been taken for making women economically independent and gain social acceptance in society, they are still far way from "holding up half the sky"
March 7, 2013
NEW DELHI: Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar feels that Virender Sehwag could have been given another chance keeping in mind the batting-friendly pitch in Mohali, which will host the third Test against Australia from March 14.
Sehwag is not out of form, Gavaskar says
March 7, 2013
UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON: The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States.
