February 20, 2013
According to police in a rural western India three sisters aged between six and 11 were raped and murdered before their bodies were dumped down a village well. The incident led to protests by villagers, echoing angry rallies in New Delhi after the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus.
February 20, 2013
BOSTON — A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say.
February 19, 2013
LONDON: British PM David Cameron's confession in Mumbai that he hasn't "appointed enough women to cabinet" has thrown open a global trend — the number of women ministers across countries are abysmally low.
While only four out of Cameron government's 27 cabinet ministers are women, globally too, the percentage of women ministers improved but by just over 2% in eight years time — from 14.2% in 2005 to 16.7% in 2012.
February 19, 2013
Friday night shooting of Sri Lankan journalist Faraz Shauketaly was the latest attempt to muzzle the country's independent press, according to Reporters without Borders and Journalists for Democracy, a group of Sri Lankan reporters in exile. Shauketaly, an investigative journalist at the Sunday Leader newspaper, had reported on alleged graft in Sri Lanka's energy sector.
February 19, 2013
New Delhi — India and Britain Tuesday called upon Pakistan to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack and said there was considerable potential for expanding their bilateral relations in trade and investment.
According to a joint statement issued after summit talks here between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and British Premier David Cameron, the two countries agreed that all terrorist networks, wherever they exist, must be defeated.
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.
