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August 12, 2012

A state level minister in Uttar Pradesh drew a lot of criticism for his suggestion that it was fine for bureaucrats to "steal a little." The minister of the state chief minister later withdrew his remarks, but that did not silence the critics.

August 12, 2012

LONDON: Freestyle grappler Sushil Kumar capped the country's most successful campaign at the Olympic Games with a historic silver medal as he became the first Indian to win back-to-back individual medals at the mega event.

August 12, 2012

Pakistan's Taliban is scheduled to hold a meeting to decide whether cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will be allowed to hold a planned march to their tribal stronghold to protest U.S. drone strikes.

August 12, 2012

London: Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt clinched the bronze medal in the men's 60kg category to give the country its fifth Olympic medal from the London Games here Saturday.

August 11, 2012

Carmelita Jeter anchored the United States on Friday night to its first Olympic gold medal in the women’s 4x100-meter relay since 1996.

August 11, 2012

More than 3,000 gathered to mourn the 6 dead victims of the neo-Nazi, racist killer Wade Michael Page.

August 11, 2012

Washington — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has named the party's top Indian-American fundraiser, Dr. Akshay Desai, one of seven national co-chairs of his newly formed Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Romney committee.

August 11, 2012

Time magazine and CNN suspended columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria on Friday after he acknowledged that he plagiarized sections of another writer’s article about gun control.

Author Fareed Zakaria attends the Annual Meeting of the Harvard University Alumni Association at the 2012 Harvard Commencement on May 24, 2012 in Cambridge, MA

August 11, 2012

Lahore: Pakistan Rangers on Friday stopped 100 Hindus pilgrims from entering India at the Wagah Border.

According to Rangers officials, the pilgrims were stopped due to issues with their immigration documents.

Rangers officials added that these pilgrims would be allowed to travel to India when their No Objection Certificates (NOCs) were received.

August 11, 2012

Washington – The attorneys for James Holmes, the suspect in Denver's midnight movie theater shooting incident on July 20 in Colorado, said Thursday their client is "mentally ill."

James Holmes