June 3, 2012
How thousands of Indian women have their heads shaved to please the gods... only for the hair to end up as £3,000 extensions.
Selfless act: Pujari Aruna before and after having her head shaved at the Hindu temple of Tirumala Venkateswara
June 3, 2012
A man in India is being accused of blasphemy after claiming the source of a “dripping crucifix” was a leaky toilet drain. After water began falling from the feet of Jesus, Indians drank the water hoping it had special powers.
June 3, 2012
Rome – A 37-year-old Indian migrant in Italy killed his pregnant wife because she loved wearing western clothes and he wanted to punish her for going against Indian traditions.
The Indian -- whose name was given as Singhj Kulbir -- told police in Piacenza city in northern Italy that he strangled to death his 27-year-old wife -- named as Kaur Balwinde -- before throwing her corpse in the Po river, the AKI news agency reported.
June 3, 2012
A court in Pakistan has acquitted four men accused of involvement in the attempted 2010 Times Square bombing. Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to trying to blow up his SUV.
An image of terror suspect Faisal Shahzad is seen on a tv screen
June 3, 2012
Five global financial services majors, including Morgan Stanley, Stanchart and Citi, have lowered India's growth prospects to 5.7-6.4 percent for the current fiscal, a day after markets received a "shock" from nine-year low GDP growth of 6.5 percent for 2011-12.
June 3, 2012
India may have low penetration of computers, but it is ahead of countries like US, Japan and Singapore when it comes to basic PC protection, says a report by security software maker McAfee.
June 2, 2012
Scorecard: Sri Lanka 132 for 7 (Perera 32*, Tanvir 3-12) beat Pakistan 95 (Mathews 2-8, Malinga 2-12, Kulasekara 2-13) by 37 runs
Angelo Mathews stood out with figures of 2 for 8 against Pakistan
June 2, 2012
Kolkata, June 2 — Observing that there was lack of optimum use of science and technology for development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday that the profile of science must be raised in India.
"We did not use science and technology in our development processes as much as we should have," Manmohan Singh said at the Indian Science Congress Association meeting here.
June 2, 2012
A restaurant in Kathmandu, called Dining in the Dark, has opened in hopes of helping people experience what it is like to be blind. Diners will eat in a darkened hall with black curtains and be waited on by five visually impaired individuals.
June 2, 2012
Washington — Three Indian-American children were the only spellers left in the final championship round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee at a convention centre outside Washington Thursday night.
The three were among the nine who nailed words derived from Greek, Latin, French, German, Hawaiian and Afrikaans to make the finals as the field of 278 children was narrowed down after several intense rounds of spelling.
