July 25, 2012
Gandhian Anna Hazare said he will continue to fast from July 29 at Jantar Mantar to raise the issue of Lok Pal bill which is kept under covers by the Government.
July 25, 2012
Scorecard: Sri Lanka 139 for 1 (Tharanga 59*, Dilshan 50) beat India 138 (Gambhir 65, Perera 3-19, Mathews 3-14) by nine wickets
July 24, 2012
Captain Lakshmi Sehgal India's leading female revolutionary died on Monday at the age of 97. She fought against the allied forces during World War II and unsuccessfully contested India's presidential elections in 2002.
July 24, 2012
Washington — Four Indian-American researchers figure among 96 named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest US honour for young professionals.
"Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people." Obama said announcing the awards Monday. "The impressive accomplishments of today's awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead."
July 23, 2012.
After two rounds of rate cuts last month, petrol price was today hiked by 70 paise per litre on firming international oil rates.
Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 68.48 per litre with effect from midnight tonight as compared to Rs 67.78 a litre now, state-owned oil companies announced today.
July 23, 2012
Not to be surprised and as expected the former Finance Minister and the UPA Presidential Nominee Pranab Mukherjee won the Presidential Election amidst high political drama. But to everyone’s surprise Mukherjee has won defeating the BJP Nominee PA Sangma with 70% majority.
July 23, 2012
Surpassing China and Britain, India has become the largest source of permanent migrants for Australia.
"India has surpassed China and the United Kingdom as the largest source of permanent migrants with 25,509 and 25,274 places respectively." Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese said in a press statement here Friday.
"Indian migrants comprised a total of 29,018 places or 15.7 percent of the total migration of 185,000 places under the 2011-12 permanent migration programme," he added.
July 23, 2012
‘Sin’ is a religious term. ‘Crime’ is a constitutional term.
Religion forbids certain things. Touching the forbidden thing is called a sin. But every sin need not be a crime.
July 20, 2012
So all the Cricket fans has something to cheer about. Yuvraj Singh who was recently diagnosed with rare germ cell cancer is included in the preliminary 30 member squad for T20 World Cup this September and October in Sri Lanka.
Yuvraj Singh started practicing at Bangalore after he came back from a treatment from Cancer in USA early this year.
July 19, 2012
John McCain lashed out against Michele Bachmann and other republican lawmakers after they claimed Huma Abedin is conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood. McCain called the accusations “an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman”.
McCain defends Clinton aide against allegations
