February 19, 2013
India's Prime Minister said he hoped the country's parliament would enact a tough law against rapists.
Indian activists rally for harsher punishments and quicker trials for rape cases in New Delhi on February 4, 2013
February 19, 2013
BANGALORE: The slight improvement in profitability at Indian software services firms in the December quarter is only a flash in the pan, and margins are headed inexorably downwards, analysts said.
February 19, 2013
NEW DELHI: In many towns and villages across the country, government dispensaries and hospitals have the latest equipment but no doctors or nursing staff. Often government schools have students, but no teachers. But in Delhi, there is no dearth of government employees — from peons to clerks and officers — to handle the ever-expanding list of ministries and regulatory agencies.
February 18, 2013
Washington — Louisiana's Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal is laying the groundwork for a likely presidential bid and using his state as a testing ground for policies that play well with national conservatives, according to a media report.
February 18, 2013
Britain's prime minister arrived in Mumbai on a three-day trade-focused visit, but his arrival is clouded by a corruption scandal over British-made helicopters purchased by India in 2010 for $748 million. An investigation has suggested kickbacks were paid via middlemen to secure the deal.
February 18, 2013
MUMBAI: Diabetic men are twice more likely to suffer from DNA damage to sperms than healthy individuals, an ongoing study by Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre has revealed.
The study also showed that diabetes significantly reduced sperm count and affected the movement and appearance of sperm.
February 17, 2013
CHENNAI: A vast majority of salaried class people want the finance minister to raise the exemption limit of income tax to at least Rs 3 lakh and increase deductions such as medical and educational allowances in the Union Budget so that they are left with more purchasing power, as per a recent survey conducted by Assocham (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India).
February 17, 2013
NEW DELHI: Trial of the five men charged with gang-raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16 will take another three months to conclude, say advocates.
February 17, 2013
NEW YORK: The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, Nasa scientists say.
February 17, 2013
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI called on the Roman Catholic Church and its faithful on Sunday to "renew themselves" as tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists attended his penultimate Angelus prayers.
