July 5, 2012
The US has demanded Colombo stop harassing the media after the country shut down websites and arrested journalists who were critical of the government. The New York based Committee to Protect Journalists claims President Mahinda Rajapakse and his officials are determined to silence the opposition.
July 5, 2012
While young cricketers have a very good option to earn money and become rich in this generation Rahul Dravid insists them not to be in surge for money. Dravid feels that he has no other great experience than playing for the country for the test cricket.
July 4, 2012
Washington, July 3 — The lights are back, the TV has again started blaring, the air-conditioner is humming and the internet has come alive. It seems an aeon since the hot Friday night when a savage storm plunged the American capital into darkness, a situation more familiar in Delhi perhaps.
It's good to be back in good old DC as one has known it for years.
July 4, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram, July 4 — UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday denied his signature in his letter of resignation from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was fake.
July 4, 2012
Finance group SREI has bought $72 million of Kingfisher Airlines’ debt, calling it a “good buy”. The airline has never posted a profit and recently shut down all international operations.
A Kingfisher Airline flight awaits clearance to take off from the city airport in Mumbai
July 4, 2012
Pakistan will reopen NATO supply routes after the US apologized for the loss of life in an air raid last November. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US is committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to make sure a similar incident never happens again.
Pakistan Re-Opening Afghan Supply Routes: Clinton
July 3, 2012
If this year’s budget was not hurting you enough, the change in service tax rule will. Effective today, almost all services that we use are subjected to 12% service tax. Only a few on the negative list and the exempt list have been spared.
July 3, 2012
Rating agency Crisil Ltd sees a high probability of the rupee touching 50 a dollar by March 2013. The current level of the domestic currency closed at 55.43 to a dollar on Monday.
July 3, 2012
Physicists at a US laboratory said on Monday they have come tantalizingly close to proving the existence of the elusive subatomic Higgs boson - often called the "God particle" because it may bring mass and order to the universe.
July 2, 2012
Several books these days are an adaptation of books. Chetan Bhagat is one such writer where most of him books made into movies. The Aamir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots (2009), which was based on Bhagat’s debut novel Five Point Someone turned out to be the biggest grosser of all time in Indian cinema.
