August 4, 2012
London: Saina Nehwal earned India its third medal at the London Games, clinching a bronze under fortuitous circumstances as her opponent and world number two Xin Wang of China conceded the third-place playoff match due to a knee injury after winning the first game.
August 4, 2012
Pop quiz: Does life exist after death?
A University of California, Riverside philosophy professor, John Martin Fischer, has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the John Templeton Foundation to study just this topic—and yes, students can take his class.
August 3, 2012
So after a couple of road bumps we hit in the London Olympic 2012 we have something good to cheer about. Tennis super starts Leander Paes and Sania Mirza enter into quarter finals after defeating Serbian duo Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic in a mixed double on Thursday.
August 3, 2012
New Delhi: It was seen coming, finally it has happened. Anna Hazare and his team, who have been fighting for a strong Lokpal, on Thursday announced that they are ready to give a political alternative to the people of the country.
August 2, 2012
PUNE: Within hours of Sushilkumar Shinde taking over as the country's home minister on Wednesday, coordinated serial terror bomb blasts rocked Pune, a city scarred by the horrible German Bakery attack that killed 17 people two years ago.
August 2, 2012
Pakistan's deputy attorney general sought to create inter-faith harmony by serving devotees and polishing shoes in Sikh temples in Pakistan and India. But now the man has been fired from his job.
August 2, 2012
MUMBAI -- With increasing attacks from hoodlums from political parties and growing extortion demands, Bollywood--s filmmakers are seriously considering moving out of India--s entertainment capital.
August 2, 2012
Pakistan has told India that recently obtained evidence of the 2008 Mumbai attacks is inadmissible in court because Pakistani lawyers were not allowed to cross-examine Indian officials. Pakistan charged the seven men over the attacks, but insists it needs to gather more evidence in India before proceeding further.
August 1, 2012
According to the last census, one-third of the India's 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity even in the best of circumstances. But the scale of the power outage on Tuesday, impacting nearly 10 percent of the world's population underscored the yawning gap between India's superpower dreams and a sweltering, gritty reality.
August 1, 2012
A 150 year old brothel in Bangladesh founded for jute traders during the British colonial era is facing closure following protests by Islamic groups. Some sex workers allege that the reason behind the protests is the ambitions of a prominent Muslim family who are erecting a multi-storied building next to the brothel.
