“It is the duty of all parties in the country to solve problems according to the people’s wishes by participating in this Parliamentary Select Committee rather than relying on imported solutions and utilising foreign influences,” Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said.
Addressing the nation at Anuradhapura, on the occasion of the Sri Lankan Independence Day, [...]
Washington: To make America more attractive to highly-skilled foreign students and workers, the United States has announced a series of reforms, including changes in the F-1 and H-1B visa rules, that may benefit professionals from India.
The interim measures are aimed at improving the competitiveness of US companies in the world market and stimulating US job [...]
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar who started his first production house Grazing Goat Pictures along with Color Channel’s ex CEO Ashwini Yarde is now looking forward to make more regional films under his production house. Akshay aims to encourage regional filmmakers to make it big in Indian cinema and this serves just as an initiative by [...]
Repolling at 34 polling stations in Manipur’s hill districts began this morning amid tight security deployment in view of threats from insurgent organisations.
Extra security measures were taken as the government had received reports that militants particularly belonging to National Socialist Council of Nagaland (I-M) were roaming around the polling stations.
Officials said repolling began at all [...]
In a surprise development, the Indian cricket team’s long-time sponsor Sahara India on Friday ended financial ties with the BCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors’ ownership just hours before the players’ auction.
Sahara, which has been the team sponsor for 11 years, signed a renewed agreement with the BCCI [...]
While the government has been claiming paucity of land within the city to rehabilitate its poor; it has decided to construct luxurious quarters for IAS officers on its 113 acres of land across four prime areas in the city. The poor, however, have found no place on them yet.
Despite orders mandating allocation of at least [...]
A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police’s cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said today. Hacking collective Anonymous published a roughly 15-minute-long recording of a conference call apparently devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loosely-knit group.
The FBI said the information “was [...]
New Delhi: A trial court headed by Judge OP Saini is expected to decide at 12.15 pm today if Home Minister P Chidambaram should be made a co-accused in the case for allegedly allowing former Telecom Minister A Raja to gift mobile network licenses and scarce second-generation or 2G spectrum at staggeringly low prices to [...]
Dubai: Former Pakistan paceman and coach Waqar Younis on Friday called for a reduction in the five-year cricket ban meted out to talented teenage bowler Mohammad Amir for his role in a spot-fixing scandal.
Amir, 19, was released from a British prison on Wednesday after serving half of his six-month sentence for his part in the [...]
Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sanjay Kumar, managing partner of the Ghanshyamdas Gems and Jewels, here on Thursday, based on a complaint of fraud lodged on behalf of the State Bank of India (SBI). Sanjay allegedly availed of credit facilities running into hundreds of crores of rupees from the bank by [...]
For the second time in a month, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appear before it to be charged with contempt for repeatedly refusing to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Addressing the National Assembly later in the evening, Mr. Gilani said he would appear [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s supreme court on Thursday summoned PM Yousaf Raza Gilani to appear before it on February 13 to frame contempt charges against him for defying its orders to write to Swiss authorities to reopen a graft case against president Asif Ali Zardari.
Gilani told parliament later that he respects the court and will honour its [...]
New Delhi: In a major turnaround on Thursday, the Pakistan judicial commission probing the 26/11 Mumbai attacks called off its India visit without giving any apparent reason. The commission was supposed to record the statements of the 26/11 witnesses.
India has, time and again, raised concerns about the slow pace of the 26/11 trial in Pakistan. [...]
New York: A complaint from an Indian-American student who was near the top of his high school class but was rejected by both Harvard and Princeton universities has triggered an investigation by the US Education Department.
The unnamed Indian-American student in California complained that the two universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, according to a [...]
The Indian six yards for a long time did not make it to the red (or green) carpet of glamorous film events. Only Rekha always carried the Indian look more than perfectly in her gorgeous Kanjeevarams. After the introduction of evening gowns and more than a couple of faux paus by Indian actors on the [...]
Melbourne: Several people are feared dead after a ferry carrying as many as 350 passengers on board sank off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday.
“There has been a boat go down in Papua New Guinea with, as we understand it, 350 people on board,” Gillard said.
“This [...]
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaitis started casting votes on Thursday in a snap poll to elect the fourth parliament in less than six years with unofficial polls showing the Islamist-led opposition in the lead.
The election was called following bitter political disputes and youth-led street protests, inspired by the Arab Spring, that eventually forced the resignation of the [...]
HYDERABAD: Nearly two years after a feasibility study was done on a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for the Rethibowli-JNTU, Kukatpally route, a special purpose vehicle is yet to be created to take the project forward.
It appears that the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) department is not too keen on the project. The Unified [...]
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