March 24, 2012
"My critics haven`t taught me my cricket," Sachin Tendulkar has said in a rebuttal to those who were calling for him to retire. The day he feels "a little less passion" when walking out to bat for India, "I will give up the game", the master batsman said, adding, "critics didn`t need to tell me to do so."
March 24, 2012
After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.
March 24, 2012
DMK MP Kanimozhi moved the Delhi High Court seeking that charges against her in 2G spectrum allocation case be quashed.
Kanimozhi’s counsel pleaded before the court that his client was not involved in granting of 2G licenses and there was no evidence to charge her in the 2G scam.
March 24, 2012
GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia (AFP) - Kieron Pollard smashed a blistering century as West Indies defeated Australia by 42 runs in the fourth one-day international on Friday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
March 23, 2012
Cross-cultural comedy "The Infidel", about a British Muslim caught in an identity crisis is set to get a desi twist. India-based marketing company Trigno Media has acquired the rights for a Hindi remake of the film.
March 23, 2012
The South Asian community failed to muster enough support for Raja Krishnamoorthi to win the Democratic Primary March 20 in the 8thCongressional District in Illinois.
Krishnamoorthi lost to his opponent and party favorite, Tammy Duckworth, a wounded Iraq War veteran.
March 23, 2012
Back in July, all of the Nikki Haley haters were all twitterpated over a story at FITSNews that the good guv had indicated that her race was white on her voter registration card. The P&C jumped on it and the S.C. Democratic Party head Dick Harpootlian followed suit.
March 23, 2012
WASHINGTON: Indian Americans numbering 3.2 million is the third largest Asian American community in US after Chinese Americans (3.8 million) and Filipinos (3. 4 million).
As per the details released by US Census Bureau for the year 2010, Asian American communities have emerged as the fastest growing ethnic communities in the last one decade.
The total US population grew by 9.7%, from 281.4 million in 2000 to 308.7 million in 2010.
March, 2012
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation recently published a research paper on the philanthropy within the Indian American community of Silicon Valley. The report looks at the roots of giving in India, a history of the Indian American community in the U.S. and then describes the vision and values of Indian American philanthropists in Silicon Valley.
March 23, 2012
Dinesh Trivedi, the now ex-railways minister, proposed an increase in passenger fares last week citing safety and modernization of the railways as primary concerns. The move resulted in his dismissal by West Bengal chief minister and his boss, Mamata Banerjee, who said the fare increase was unacceptable and demanded a rollback.
