April 12, 2012
Here is a factbox showing the 10 strongest earthquakes recorded since 1900, by order of magnitude as Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after a huge 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off its westernmost province of Aceh on Wednesday.
May 22, 1960 - Chile - An earthquake of magnitude 9.5 struck Santiago and Concepcion, triggering tidal waves and volcanic eruptions. Some 5,000 people were killed and 2 million made homeless.
April 12, 2012
"I am thankful to God that I got my life back," said Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh in his first media interaction after undergoing treatment for a rare germ cell cancer, conceding that it would take at least two more months before he returns to the field.
April 11, 2012
Presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) at GWU Lisner Auditorium on Friday, April 13, at 8:00pm, “Anoushka and the ‘Traveller’ Ensemble,” is Anoushka Shankar’s latest fusion experiment of Indian classical raga and the gypsy-flavored Spanish flamenco. Traveller has had successful tours of Europe, UAE, and India.
April 11, 2012
On the eve of her departure to New Delhi as the United States's first woman ambassador to India, Nancy J Powell made it clear that economic and commercial relations would be at the top of her agenda and she would aggressively promote Indian investment in the US.
Powell, a career diplomat, speaking at the reception in her honour hosted by the US-India Business Council, greeted the guests by clasping her palms together and saying Namaste.
April 11, 2012
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the visit of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to India would improve bilateral trade and relationship."Let us hope that with this visit, our bilateral relations and trade will improve," he told reporters on the sidelines of 'bhoomi pooja' of IFCI Financial City in the outskirts of Bangalore.
April, 2012
China is now the world's largest food and grocery market, having overtaken the US in terms of sales in 2011, a market research firm said. British food industry analysts IGD also noted that BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - will make up four of the top five grocery markets by 2015.
April 11. 2012
Communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal Tuesday said that 3G services have not been a success in the country so far. "3G has not delivered so far. The operators have paid huge money to get the bandwidth but they are not able to build the required infrastructure due to illiquidity," Sibal said here at the launch of Airtel's 4G LTE services.
April 10, 2012
Special By Geeta Goindi
Vienna, VA, April 6 – Some 500 music connoisseurs congregated at the Tysons Sheraton Premiere, Friday evening, to hear young ghazal maestro Jaswinder Singh perform in a concert, ‘Ishq 2012', billed as a tribute to the legend Jagjit Singh.
April 10, 2012
A last-ball six hit by Rohit Sharma sealed the victory for Mumbai Indians who defeated Deccan Chargers by 5 wickets at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. Mumbai Indians needed 18 runs to win from the final over.
April 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records weren't just broken, they were deep-fried.
