January 18, 2013
Shops, businesses and schools shut on Friday across Karachi, as the city braced for further unrest after the murder of a politician and a night of sporadic shootings. Overnight violence, linked to ethnic and politically linked tensions in Karachi, left five people dead and around 30 wounded according to police.
January 18, 2013
Hyderabad — President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday called upon private sector to join hands with government in fighting blindness and visual impairment.
National Programme For Control Of Blindness
January 18, 2013
Pakistan recently announced the release of 26 prisoners to kick start peace talks ahead of the withdrawal of US-led NATO troops from Afghanistan; however, no one knows what happened to the prisoners. According to the US ambassador to Afghanistan, a real peace process has yet not begun.
January 18, 2013
A magistrate in India has ordered the trial of five men accused in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus to be shifted to a special fast-track court in New Delhi. The government has set up five fast-track courts in the capital in recent weeks to deal swiftly with crimes against women.
January 17, 2013
Pakistan's political crisis seemed to easing as a group of ruling ministers held talks with a cleric leading a mass protest in Islamabad. The adjournment by the Supreme Court of an alleged corruption case against the prime minister, after officials claimed not to have enough evidence to arrest him, also seemed to give the government breathing space.
January 17, 2013
Melbourne — India's doubles specialists Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna won their first round matches with different partners while Somdev Devvarman lost a marathon battle against fancied Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the men's singles second round at the Australian Open here on Wednesday.
January 17, 2013
New Delhi — Asserting that universal healthcare was a "matter of faith" for the government, President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said the country needed "out of the box" reforms to take medical services closer to people's homes.
January 17, 2013
A low-caste woman was beaten and gang-raped in front of her husband and child when seven robbers invaded their home. The husband had been bound and gagged, unable to protect his wife.
Women protest recent rapes
January 16, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has halted a new visa program with Pakistan and nine Pakistani field hockey players were asked to withdraw from the India team, as tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries continue to rise. Earlier this month Pakistani troops allegedly killed Indian troops in Kashmir, beheading one.
January 16, 2013
Washington — After a sharp slowdown pushing down its projected growth to 5.4 percent in the fiscal year ending March 2013, the World Bank expects India to grow at 6.4 percent this year, rising to 7.3 percent by 2015.
The slowdown in India, South Asia's largest economy, also weakened growth in the region to an estimated 5.4 percent in 2012 (7.4 percent in 2011), said the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects, issued Tuesday.
