February 2, 2013
India's Cabinet accepted several recommendations Friday for toughening laws in crimes against women. The penalty for rape is now 20 years while gang rape can result in a life sentence.
India's Cabinet accepted most of the recommendations of a commission for toughening laws for crimes against women, including increasing the penalty for rape.
February 1, 2013
For the last two decades women in Basatpur, a village in Bangaldesh’s Jessore district, have crossed the country’s boarder to work as dancing girls in the bars of Mumbai. The impoverished village has become known as "Bombay Colony."
February 1, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Pakistan 6 for 0 (Hafeez 6*, Jamshed 0*) trail South Africa 253 (Kallis 50, Hafeez 4-16) by 247 runs
Mohammad Hafeez: Finished with four wickets
February 1, 2013
The statement Thursday came in response to a report by the The Hindu claiming China is looking to build three hydro projects on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. The Yarlung Tsangpo becomes the Brahmaputra when it crosses into India.
February 1, 2013
PreetiDua had her Eureka moment when she took her daughter to preschool in Mumbai in 2004. Dua, then 30, had been toying with the idea of starting her own venture but did not know where to begin.
February 1, 2013
Washington — As Hillary Clinton made her final speech as America's top diplomat, she suggested US had encouraged India's "Look East" policy as an exercise in 'smart power' in its pivot to Asia Pacific.
"There are limits to what soft power on its own can achieve," said Secretary of State Clinton Thursday emphasising American leadership, and the need to reshape diplomacy to meet the changing landscape of the world.
February 1, 2013
NEW DELHI: Walmart and the US government have conveyed their concern over the Centre's move to let states decide on the entry of global supermarkets, in what is being seen as an indication of the world's largest supermarket chain's reluctance to enter the Indian market immediately.
Februray 1, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India Women 284 for 6 (Kamini 100, Raut 72, Dottin 3-32) beat West Indies Women 179 (Dottin 39, Niranjana 3-52) by 105 runs
India's openers Thirush Kamini and Poonam Raut put on 175
January 31, 2013
LONDON: A piece of legislation that permits US agencies to snoop on foreign nationals by hacking into cloud servers of Google and Apple, has sent alarm bells ringing among privacy campaigners, a British media report says.
January 31, 2013
An Indian worker pays his respects to Mahatma Gandhi in Amritsar on January 30, 2013.
