June 23, 2012
Thick snow cover at Kashmir's Amarnath cave shrine and on the route leading to it is posing multiple risks to pilgrims and has increased challenges before the organisers of the annual pilgrimage, due to start on June 25.
June 23, 2012
Chennai — DMK activists will "fill the jails" across Tamil Nadu July 4 to denounce the "vendetta politics" of the AIADMK government, party president M. Karunanidhi said on Friday.
And if they are not released in time, DMK MPs and legislators will still vote in the presidential election next month, he told reporters.
He said he had called for the protests as the government had invoked the Goondas Act on one of its leaders and former minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam.
June 23, 2012
Pakistan's parliament elected a new prime minister - Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, ending days of uncertainty. But the election of Ashraf is unlikely to end the tensions between the current government and the country's judiciary.
June 22, 2012
Earlier this month, Adobe updated its Flash Player to version 11.3, but the upgrade has been a bit of a problem for Firefox users.
According to Mozilla's support page, Flash-based videos "may appear black, white or grey and never play" in Firefox since the update.
June 22, 2012
The matinee idol of the 70s and 80s Rajesh Khanna who has been going through a bout of illness is reportedly in a worse condition than before. But then, he is being showered with all love and support from family.
Bollywood's beloved 'Kaka' Rajesh Khanna, who has not been keeping well, is now more than fine, his family said
June 22, 2012
A Chicago-based Indian American who was involved in the Rod Blagojevich scandal and was once a fundraiser for Jesse Jackson Jr. has been arrested on bribery charges. Raghuveer Nayak was charged with bribing doctors to send patients to his surgery centers.
June 22, 2012
Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised Indian social activist Ela Bhatt as one of her "heroines" for her work for empowerment of women.
"I have a lot of heroes and heroines around the world," she said speaking at the National Partnership for Women and Families here Thursday. One of them was Ela Bhatt, Clinton said, recalling her role in starting the Self-Employed Women's Association in India.
June 22, 2012
Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi said he would review his ODI future after the series loss to Sri Lanka. Afridi stated that he would continue to play Twenty20 if he decides to leave one-day.
June 22, 2012
LeBron James won his first National Basketball Association championship, scoring 26 points as the Miami Heat won the title with a 121-106 victory tonight against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder.
June 22, 2012
LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi presents Stargazing – an exhibition bringing to London a discriminating selection of works by four prolific contemporary Indian women artists: Chitra Ganesh, Mithu Sen, Anita Dube, and Jaishri Abichandani, and an exciting new Muslim American artist, Nida Abida.
Chitra Ganesh, How We Do at the End of the World, 2011
