March 9, 2013
KOLKATA: Expressing surprise over the dropping of dashing India opener Virender Sehwag, former captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said current skipper MS Dhoni had a hand in the exclusion.
March 9, 2013
NEW DELHI: Indian households are allocating less of their spending to education and healthcare and more to travel and eating out than they did in the past, the latest GDP data reveals.
Expenses towards education and medical care have, in fact, been declining since 2008-09, according to the data, along with a decline in spending on food.
March 9, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh government's mission in a pre-election year seems cut out: To check and roll back retail food inflation that rose from 4% in January last year to 13% in December, a trend that could blight its 2014 poll ratings.
March 8, 2013
Afghanistan marked International Women's Day by hosting a festval dedicated to women's films from 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, India, Canada, South Korea, China, and Bangladesh. Afghanistan produced dozens of films annually in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but its film industry was destroyed by civil war and the Taliban.
March 8, 2013
A fund set up to collect a small percentage of each bus fare in major cities in Maharashtra, where thousands of children die from malnutrition each year, has been diverted to maintain public buses. The state's minister for children and women's development, said she was unaware the fund existed and would set up an enquiry into the matter.
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.
