May 12, 2015
Kathmandu: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake killed at least 53 people and spread panic in Nepal on Tuesday, bringing down buildings already weakened by a devastating tremor less than three weeks ago and unleashing landslides in Himalayan valleys near Mount Everest.
May 12, 2015
Beijing: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit here, a state-run newspaper on Tuesday carried a highly critical article, accusing him of "playing little tricks" over the border dispute and security issues against China to boost his domestic prestige.
May 11, 2015
CHENNAI – He was derisively called a 'benami' by his rivals and taunted on social media and messaging apps. But on Monday, Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam was beaming as he reached Poes Garden, his leader Jayalalithaa's residence in Chennai.
May 11, 2015
Bengaluru/Mumbai: For someone who used to revel in publicity, Vijay Mallya is keeping an uncharacteristically low profile these days.
The board's order to Mallya to vacate the chairman's office at the firm he built into India's biggest liquor maker was the biggest blow to Mallya in three torrid years. Photo: AFP
May 11, 2015
NEW DELHI – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government will soon bring a new benami law as part of its efforts to deal with the black money issue.
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court, which acquitted former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets case on Monday, came to the conclusion that the percentage of assets amassed by her in relation to her known sources of income was merely 8.12 percent in excess and not as claimed by the prosecution.
May 11, 2015
Sunrisers Hyderabad 185 for 5 (Warner 81, Hendricks 2-40) beat Kings XI Punjab 180 for 7 (Miller 89*, Henriques 3-16) by 5 runs
David Warner struck six fours and five sixes in his 52-ball 81. © Getty Images
May 11, 2015
HYDERABAD – Satyam Computers founder Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and eight others were granted bail on Monday by a Hyderabad court. The court also suspended their sentences.
Former Satyam Computers chairman B Ramalinga Raju arrives for the final hearing at Nampally Criminal Courts in Hyderabad.
May 11, 2015
Washington D.C. – Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of US Navy SEALs was nothing at all like the official accounts given by the United States government and military, according to a controversial article in the London Review of Books by veteran investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh:
May 11, 2015
The compendium has been tentatively titled SAMVAD, an acronym for “Self assessment of Narendra Modi government on various deliverables”.
