January 5, 2013
Tulsi Gabbard (31), the first Hindu ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives took her oath of office on Thursday on the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu scripture
Tulsi Gabbard being administered the oath of office on the Bhagwad Gita by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner in Washington on Friday.
January 5, 2013
Artistes from the music fraternity — both Carnatic and Hindustani — paid rich tributes to violin exponent M.S. Gopalakrishnan, who passed away here on Thursday. Terming his death an irreparable loss to the world of music, they reflected on different aspects of MSG’s music and personality.
January 4, 2013
Central and state governments on Friday failed to evolve a consensus on death penalty for rape convicts even as they seem to have agreed on the definition of juvenile by bringing down the age bar to 16 from 18 years.
January 4, 2013
SYDNEY: Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath was on Friday inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame, making him its 68th male member.
Australian Paceman: Glen McGrath
McGrath was formally inducted during the lunch interval of the ongoing third Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Sydney.
January 4, 3013
New Delhi: The “U.S. treasury bonds” with a face value of $5 billion seized by Income-Tax officials from a businessman in Tirupur district are most likely fake since the U.S. Treasury Department has largely dispensed with issuing paper T-bills and has certainly not issued any with a denomination as high as $1 billion.
January 4, 2013
SHIMLA: A private professional university setting up its campus in Himachal Pradesh has been accused of violating environmental laws and now faces action, an official said here Thursday.
January 4, 2013
ISLAMABAD: After focusing on the perceived danger from India for decades, the Pakistan army has made a paradigm shift by describing homegrown militant groups and internal dangers as the biggest threat to the country's security in its new military doctrine.
January 4, 2013
NEW DELHI: In a gross violation of its own rules, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has senior management pilots from airlines working for it as seconded flight operations inspectors (FOIs).
Indian aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
January 4, 2013
Former Indian and Pakistani criketeers felicitated at Eden Gardens, Kolkatta
January 3, 2013
India claims it did not export large amounts of counterfeit medicine to Africa. An article claims malaria drugs, antibiotics and contraceptives were all identified as fake.
"No fake medicines have been sent from India to the continent of Africa," a spokesman for the ministry of external affairs in Delhi said.
