October 17, 2012
India's 'untouchable' caste has thrown its support behind Tesco and other foreign supermarkets' bid to open stores, believing they could help to lift them out of poverty.
The Congress-led government's decision to defy the opposition and some of its own coalition partners to allow Tesco and others to enter the country's vast market has provoked uproar and demonstrations by its powerful shopkeepers' lobby.
October 17, 2012
An aggressive President Obama fought back in his second debate with Romney, while his Republican challenger pressed his case that the last four years have been a failure.
October 17, 2012
Izhar Gafni has created a bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard that costs around $20. He says it could change the way the world moves, helping those in the most congested cities and even the poorest reaches of Africa.
October 17, 2012
Kareena Kapoor, 32, and Saif Ali Khan, 42, tied the knot this week after five years of dating. The bride wore an orange lehenga and dazzling golden choli, while Saif wore all white.
October 17, 2012
New Delhi — President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said progress in the health sector is key to India's future place of prominence in the world and sought a high quality national health system which could be used by the poor and the rich alike.
October 17, 2012
Chennai — DMK president M. Karunanidhi Tuesday accused Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa of having double standards and betraying Tamil Nadu's interests by submitting to the Supreme Court that the Sethusamudram ship channel may not be in public interest.
October 17, 2012
More than 70 environment ministers meet in India on Wednesday for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth's natural resources, under pressure to put up the money to match their political pledges.
October 16, 2012
LUCKNOW: In order to oppose fundamentalist in their own community, Shia and Sunni Muslim clerics have come together under the banner of World Waeela Front. Formed by Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad, the front has demanded ban on Talibani ideology as they perceive is to be the one of the biggest threat for the counry.
October 16, 2012
NEW DELHI: There was uproar on the social microblogging site Twitter after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced on Tuesday that Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar would be conferred with the Member of the Order of Australia award.
October 16, 2012
'He did nothing,' said Brian J. Antal, president of the charity that runs the soup kitchen in Ohio. 'He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.'
