June 13, 2012
Bangalore: “You don’t need the weatherman to know which way wind blow.” This phrase fits very well in context of the recent survey by rating agency Standard & Poor that primed the position for a downgrade of India’s rating. S&P weatherman surely knows which way the economic wind is blowing.
June 13, 2012
PARIS: A plan to build the biggest land-based optical telescope in the world has cleared an important hurdle, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced late Monday.
Two-thirds of ESO's governing council gave full or provisional approval for the so-called European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which opens the way to starting work on the project, it said in a press release.
June 13, 2012
KANNAUJ (UP): Dimple Yadav, the newly-elected MP from Kannauj, today said she would fight for women's rights in Parliament.
"I will use my position as MP to fight for women's rights," Dimple told mediapersons after collecting her victory certificate from district electoral officer Selva Kumari J here.
June 13, 2012
WASHINGTON: Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal liminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan has been nominated by President Barack Obama to what is "often called the nation's second-highest court", the US court of appeals for the American capital.
June 13, 2012
Amid protests in Tamil Nadu over a cartoon on anti-Hindi movement in NCERT textbooks, Government on Tuesday said the panel set up last month to review political science textbooks containing BR Ambedkar's cartoon is also examining "inappropriate material" on Tamil movement.
June 13, 2012
Special By Geeta Goindi
Every once in a while, a film comes which sears your soul. ‘A Little Revolution’ is just that kind of film!
June 12, 2012
US tech giants Google and Apple are in the race to come up with aerial maps so detailed and precise that they can practically catch you with your pants down, even in your own backyard.
Google says it has already sent planes over cities while Apple has acquired a firm using spy-in-the-sky technology that has been already tested on at least 20 locations, including London.
June 12, 2012
Washington, June 12 — In a milestone in the educational partnership between India and the United States, eight institutional partnership projects, four each led by either country, were announced for the first Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative awards.
June 12, 2012
The US has exempted India from Iran oil sanctions after they significantly cut imports of Iranian oil. However, the US did not exempt China, which is heavily dependent on oil from Iran.
US exempts India, but not China, from Iran sanctions
June 12, 2012
A judicial investigation in Pakistan has found that the country's former ambassador to the US did write a letter to US officials seeking assistance in case of a potential coup against Pakistani president. The former ambassador has denied the charges calling them politically motivated.
