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.
August 1, 2012
Scorecard: India 255 for 4 (Kohli 128*, Raina 58*) beat Sri Lanka 251 for 8 (Tharanga 51, Tiwary 4-61) by six wickets
Manoj Tiwary claimed his best List A figures - 4 for 61 - to help set up India's comfortable victory
July 31, 2012
Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was switched to the finance portfolio on Tuesday in a minor reshuffle that also saw the power minister promoted as a massive electricity failure struck the country.
July 31, 2012
Washington, July 30 — The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), a powerful professional community of doctors with over 65,000 members, has not only become a "force to reckon with" but aims to "advance the science of healing" worldwide, particulary in India.
Jul 30, 2012
In a major train accident 32 people were charred to death and 80 others injured when a fire broke out in a coach of New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express.
