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.
June 2, 2012
A prosecution witness in the Rajat Gupta insider trading case has said that he believed that the Indian American secretly worked as an executive for the Galleon Group - a hedge fund run by the convicted billionaire Raj Rajaratam.
Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Insider Trading Trial Begins
June 2, 2012
The Reserve Bank of India has warned that the unimpressive GDP numbers released on Thursday could be a signal for a further decline in the Indian economy. Commentators said that the results were a wake up call for the current government that has been hit by corruptions scandals and infighting.
June 1, 2012
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad) Thursday.
According to an ISPR statement, Ra’ad Missile has the range of over 350 km that can enable Pakistan to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and at Sea.
June 1, 2012
India has said that there is an attempt to paint it in negative colour on the issue of importing oil from Iran, arguing that it needs enormous energy for its 1.2 billion people.
