June 10, 2012
New Delhi, June 10 — Team Anna member Kiran Bedi Sunday compared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the blind king Dhritarashtra of the Mahabharata epic, saying he is aiding corruption in the government.
The Congress hit back, saying Team Anna had converted the movement against corruption into "a personal campaign and personal ambition".
June 10, 2012
In a modern, airy workshop located in a fashionable Katmandu shopping hub frequented by Nepal’s rich and famous, two skilled craftsmen assemble some of the world’s most exclusive luxury watches.
June 10, 2012
NEW DELHI: An Indian businessman was charged yesterday with attempting to bribe government officials in connection with allegations that Swiss-based Rheinmetall Air Defense AG paid him $530,000 to use his influence to stop the company from being blacklisted.
June 10, 2012
A spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry has rejected US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's claims that the South Asian nation is not doing enough to eliminate hiding places of insurgents. The spokesman called Panetta's remarks "misplaced and unhelpful"
June 9, 2012
Scorecard: Sri Lanka 280 for 4 (Dilshan 119*, Jayawardene 53) beat Pakistan 204 (Azhar 96, Perera 6-44) by 76 runs
Tillakaratne Dilshan dropped anchor and batted through the inning
June 9, 2012
NEW DELHI: Internet activists held protests in several cities against what they claimed as 'growing censorship of internet by the government' in the country.
June 9, 2012
BHOPAL: A day after RSS ideologue Sanjay Joshi was stripped of all the posts in the BJP following his differences with the Gujarat chief minister, Congress party general secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Saturday that Narendra Modi was a tyrant.
June 9, 2012
WASHINGTON: Ahead of the next week's India-US education dialogue, the United States Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said there is chance to provide a much better education for thousands of young people in India.
"I think the challenges India faces dwarf -- make ours look relatively simple. But I think there's a chance to provide a much better education for hundreds and hundreds and thousands of young people in India," Duncan told reporters at a White House news conference yesterday.
June 9, 2012
A bomb ripped apart a packed bus carrying government employees and other civilians near Peshawar, Pakistan killing 18 people. No one claimed responsibility for the horrific attack, but the Pakistani Taliban has carried out similar attacks in the past.
June 9, 2012
Agartala — Northeast India's first IIIT (Indian Institute of Information Technology) will be set up in Tripura, a minister said here Friday.
Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty told reporters: "Union Human Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal informed at a meeting in New Delhi Tuesday that northeast's first IIIT would be set up in Tripura."
