June 28, 2012
Pakistan released 300 Indian fishermen who were arrested after crossing the indiscernible border into Pakistan. This marks the largest release of prisoners on a single day in Pakistan, which many see as a sign of improved relations.
June28, 2012
A gruesome video released by the Taliban shows 17 heads of Pakistani soldiers who were killed and beheaded in a cross-border attack from Afghanistan. The video obtained from the Pakistani Taliban indicates the domestic and external threat Pakistan faces from militants opposed to the current government.
June 27, 2012
Bollywood star A.R. Rahman has teamed up with American rock artist Liz Phair to write the score for ‘People Like Us’, an Indie film starring Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pine. Despite their musical differences, the duo successfully collaborated to create a piece of music that was a departure for both of them.
June 27, 2012
Due to opposition from powerful India, the International Cricket Council turned down a move to make the Decision Review System compulsory. India provides the majority of global ICC revenues and came out against the recommendation.
June 27, 2012
Under intense pressure from customers and others for an IT failure that affected the transactions of millions of customers, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has said there was no link to its outsourcing programme to India.
June 27, 2012
Washington – A diet enriched with a popular omega-3 fatty acid and curcumin, found in Indian curry spice turmeric, preserved walking ability in rats with spinal-cord injury.
The findings by researchers from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) suggest that these dietary supplements help repair nerve cells and maintain their function after degenerative damage to the neck.
June 27, 2012
Sania Mirza has criticized India's tennis chiefs, saying she was humiliated at being used as "bait" in an Olympic selection row to pacify a disgruntled Leander Paes.
June 27, 2012
Madhya Pradesh Government will henceforth not allow to carry out cremation rituals within the periphery of 5 km on the bank of Narmada river in the state, apparently to keep the resultant pollution in check. "The municipal bodies would be asked to take villagers in confidence and seek their support for carrying out cremations at at least 5 km away from the bank of Narmada river," Madhya Pradesh Municipal Administration Minister Babulal Gaur told reporters on Monday.
June 26, 2012
Seeking to wash his hands off the Adarsh scam, Union Minister of power Sushil Kumar Shinde today told a judicial panel the decision to allot government land and grant of additional FSI to the housing society was taken during the tenure of Vilasrao Deshmukh as Chief Minister.
June 26, 2012
India's minister for rural development has said that he would like the country to be "open defecation-free" in a decade. Sixty percent of all open defecation in the world takes place in India, Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said on Monday that he wanted to make India a nation free of open defecation in a decade's time.
