January 27, 2013
Washington DC — Indian community in the US celebrated India's 64th Republic Day with Ambassador Nirupama Rao unfurling the national flag at a colourful function at the Indian embassy here on a clear but chilly day.
After hoisting the flag in front of the embassy overlooking a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Rao read out President Pranab Mukherjee's address to the nation.
January 27, 2013
India wil host Pakistan's women cricketers in the World Cup starting next week. The visiting team's batting coach hoped the team will 'build bridges' between the two nations despite recent tensions.
January 27, 2013
Washington DC -The White House and Congress must move quickly to enact just and humane comprehensive immigration reform.
In the wake of the 2012 elections, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have expressed the need to act on the issue. The window for bipartisan legislation is now open.
January 26, 2013
PALAKKAD (Kerala): Veteran south Indian playback singer S Janaki has declined to accept the Padma Bhushan award as she feels that the honour has come late in her five-and-half-decade long career.
January 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: As a pleasant winter sun shone on the manicured lawns of the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Pranab Mukherjee mingled with dignitaries at a reception he hosted here Saturday, and in a break from tradition, walked up to the guests and exchanged greetings with them.
January 26, 2013
Sri Lanka 5 for 138 (Mathews 35*) beat Australia 3 for 137 (Warner 90*, Voges 25*) by 5 wickets
January 26, 2013
India is disappointed with the 35-year sentence given to David Headley for the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying he deserved more prison time for terrorism that killed 166 people. Headley was born in the U.S. to a Pakistani father and an American mother and changed his changed his birth name from Daood Gilani.
January 26, 2013
India’s president has warned that a ceasefire between the rival countries shouldn’t be taken for granted following border shelling in Kashmir that has left 5 dead.
January 25, 2013
New Delhi — Noted scientists Yashpal and Roddam Narasimha, cricketer Rahul Dravid, actor Rajesh Khanna and comedian Jaspal Bhatti (both posthumous), and boxer Mary Kom, are among the 108 eminent and illustrious personalities named for India's highest civilian honours, Padma awards, this year.
According to a release from the home ministry Friday, President Pranab Mukherjee approved the names of the 108 awardees, who include four Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri.
January 25, 2013
Karachi is a notoriously violent place, but most murders occur in the city's poorest neighborhoods, where gangs affiliated with the main political parties battle over land and extort money from local businesses. Violence in the city's upscale neighborhoods of is much rarer, and anger is often directed at the "feudal elite."
