January 14, 2013
New Delhi — In a move to boost investor sentiment, the Indian government Monday deferred the implementation of the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), meant to prevent tax avoidance through foreign investments, by two years to April 1, and exempted non-resident Indians in foreign institutional investors (FIIs) from its purview.
January 14, 2013
Bus driver Ram Singh, accused of a gang rape and murder of an Indian student, confessed that he attempted to kill the victim to prevent her from identifying her attackers. He also revealed that the six men cleaned the blood from the bus with the victim’s clothes before burning it.
January 14, 2013
NASA has signed a $17.8 million deal to attach an inflatable private module to the International Space Station (ISS).
File photo shows space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Cananveral, Florida.
January 14, 2013
Suspended particulate matter found above permissible limit at 15 monitored locations
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials attributed the high levels of pollution to high humidity, low wind velocity and low temperatures.
January 13, 2013
WHO had removed India from the list of polio endemic countries in February 2012 and if no new polio case is reported by 2014, India will be officially declared polio free
January 13, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 2 for 172 (Thirimanne 102*, Dilshan 51) beat Australia 170 (Haddin 50, Malinga 3-32) by 8 wickets
Lahiru Thirimanne scored his maiden hundred in Sri Lanka's series-equalling win in Adelaide
January 13, 2013
Police have arrested six men in Punjab over the rape of a passenger on a coach in India. The incident reportedly occurred near Amritsar, nearly a month after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests.
January 13, 2013
Pakistan has agreed to a flag meeting in Poonch area of Jammu region along the Line of Control, in a bid to defuse the week-long tension between the two neighbors that gripped Mendhar sector after skirmishes between the Pakistani and Indian troops left four soldiers dead.
January 12, 2013
New Delhi — Jaypee Punjab Warriors will be shifting their base from Jalandhar to Mohali from the next season of the Hockey Indian League (HIL) for logistical reasons.
January 12, 2013
Washington — "Imagining our Future Together", an art exhibition organized by the World Bank, is aimed at taking forward the vision that art has the potential to connect people and countries in South Asia.
