October 6, 2015
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday termed "unfortunate" the lynching of a man over beef rumours in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri and appealed to the people to maintain communal harmony.
October 5, 2015
SYRACUSE – The co-pilot of an American Airlines flight landed the plane Monday morning after the pilot died during the trip, according to an airline official.
In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo, an American Airlines jet takes off from Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport.
October 5, 2015
London: A giant cake baked in Italy that measures over 16 metres long and weighs more than 1,000 kg has set the Guinness record for the world's largest cake sculpture.
The cake, measuring 16.46 metres long by 13.94 metres wide, was decorated with a map of Italy and its most famous landmarks, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Alps.
October 5, 2015
GERMANY – The number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year will be as high as 1.5 million - almost double the previous estimate, German media report.
Most migrants get to Bavaria via Austria, Hungary and the Balkans
October 5, 2015
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and McKinsey & Company released a report containing the latest digest of what seems like a bottomless trove of sad data about women at work.
"Women in the Workplace" sourced data from 118 companies and almost 30,000 employees, hoping to illuminate why inequalities persist between men and women in corporate spaces.
October 5, 2015
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 96 for 4 (Duminy 30*, Ashwin 3-24) beat India 92 (Raina 22, Rohit 22, Morkel 3-12) by six wickets
Farhaan Behardien and JP Duminy were made to wait to clinch the series - Associated Press
October 5, 2015
UTTRA PRADESH – Amid outcry over lynching of a 50-year-old Muslim man in Dadri, senior Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan today sought intervention of United Nations to look into the "miseries" of minorities in India.
October 4, 2015
It took her more than five years, but with Priyanka Chopra’s debut on ABC’s new drama Quantico, which opened in the US on 27 September and launched in India on 3 October, Anjula Acharia-Bath finally achieved her goal—to get a desi artist into mainstream America.
A file photo of Anjula Acharia-Bath. Photo: The New York Times
October 4, 2015
NEW DELHI – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today warned that those who did not declare overseas black money during compliance window will face the consequences as the government will receive information about their wealth under automatic exchange of information, while others who took advantage of the scheme to come clean can "sleep well".
October 3, 2015
Karachi: Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has advised the PCB to focus on organising the Pakistan Super League and getting international cricket teams to tour the country instead of chasing the Indian board for revival of bilateral series between the two nations.
