Tennessee Doctor Threatened to Kill Wife After Plans to Leave: Police
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn:Dr. Vijay R. Singh, a Johnson City physician, threatened to shoot and kill his wife Dec. 4 after she told him she planned to return home to their native India, police said in a court document. Police confiscated several fire arms and a cache of ammunition from the house. According to the Johnson […]
Obama Nominates Shamina Singh to Community Service Board
President Barack Obama Jan. 16 nominated Shamina Singh, the current executive director of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, to the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Singh has held the position at the MasterCard Center since December 2013. She is also global director of government social programs in MasterCard’s […]
Rahul’s game-plan: Do whatever it takes, win 2019
BANGALORE: The nation may be eagerly awaiting the course of the NaMo versus RaGa battle and its outcome in the April-May Lok Sabha elections. But AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi seems to have his eyes set on the 2019 chapter. Seeking to build a new, youthful brigade in the next five years, the AICC vice-president has reportedly laid out a […]
Sunanda Tharoor’s death: police ordered to investigate cause of poisoning
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has been ordered to determine whether the death ofSunanda Pushkar Tharoor was accidental, a suicide, or murder. The inquiry into the death of Mrs Pushkar, the wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, was ordered today by a Delhi magistrate, based on the autopsy that said the 52-year-old died of poisoning. Doctors at […]
Australia Open: Maria Sharapova advances to second round
Third seed Maria Sharapova clawed her way into the Australian Open second round on Tuesday with a straight-sets win over Bethanie Mattek-Sands as she seeks her first Grand Slam title since the 2012 French Open. The glamorous Russian, on the comeback trail from a shoulder injury that forced her off the tour in August, battled […]
Hockey World League: India face uphill task against world champions Australia in quarterfinal
The morale-boosting draw against Olympic champions Germany has done a world of good to India’s confidence as the hosts face a herculean task when they square off with World Champions Australia in the quarterfinals of the Hero Hockey World League Final, in New Delhi on Wednesday. After back-to-back defeats against higher-ranked England and New Zealand in their […]
Ranbaxy Says F.D.A. Lists Possible Violations at Punjab Drug Plant
MUMBAI — Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s largest drug maker, said Monday that the United States Food and Drug Administration had raised concerns about possible violations in manufacturing practices at a plant in the northern state of Punjab. Ranbaxy said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange that after a recent F.D.A. inspection of the generic […]
In UK and India, the controversy over Operation Bluestar
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today asked the government to respond to allegations that the British government secretly helped Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar or the storming of the Golden Temple in 1984. (Explain foreign hand in planning Operation Bluestar, says Arun Jaitley) Over 1,000 people were killed after troops entered Sikhism’s holiest shrine […]
Devyani Khobragade row: expelled US diplomat, wife made offensive remarks about India
New Delhi: Wayne May, the US diplomat expelled last week by New Delhi in tit-for-tat action over the Devyani Khobragade row, and his wife Alicia Muller, also an embassy official, made deeply offensive comments about India, its people and culture on Facebook during their stay here. In a photograph posted online, they said their pet dog Paco looks […]
US Energy Secretary Cancels India Trip Amid Strain in Ties
WASHINGTON, United States: U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Jan. 8 canceled his crucial trip to India next week in view of the strained bilateral ties over the arrest of a senior Indian diplomat on alleged visa fraud charges, the most serious fallout of the ordeal yet. Moniz’s planned visit to India next week has been […]
The Serial Philanthropist: Romesh Wadhwani Nurtures Entrepreneurship in India
LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., United States: Romesh Wadhwani, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of strategic private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in Palo Alto, Calif., relishes solving large problems, not small ones. Whether it is sowing the seeds of innovation like an entrepreneurial Johnny Appleseed, urging President Obama to consider policy changes for the U.S. […]
Indian American Rights Groups Support Diplomat’s Maid
WASHINGTON D.C., United States: A coalition of South Asian rights bodies in the U.S. has came out in support of Devyani Khobragade’s maid Sangeeta Richard, who has claimed that she suffered while working for the Indian diplomat. “We stand with Sangeeta Richard and call upon our community members to support her and domestic workers around the […]
Theo Walcott’s 2014 FIFA World Cup injury blow saddens Roy Hodgson
London: England manager Roy Hodgson spoke of his disappointment on Tuesday after Arsenal forward Theo Walcott was ruled out of this year’s World Cup with a serious knee injury. Walcott, 24, damaged the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during Arsenal’s FA Cup victory over Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend, with his club announcing on Monday […]
India can make it to semis of Hockey World League Finals, says Netherlands coach
New Delhi: Netherlands head coach Paul Vanass is aiming for the summit clash of the Hockey World League Final to be held here at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium January 10-18. The team practised here on Tuesday ahead of their opening clash against Argentina on January 10, after which Vanass spoke to the media. […]
Bopanna-Qureshi work hard to score first win of 2014 season
New Delhi: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi recorded their first win after re-joining forces as they overcame a spirited challenge from Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Tecau in the first round of the ATP Apia International, here on Tuesday. The third seeded Indo-Pak pair recorded a hard-fought 7-6(5) 6-7(2) 10-3 win over the unseeded Dutch-Romanian team […]
Uday Kiran to be cremated on Tuesday
Hyderabad: Telugu actor Uday Kiran, who committed suicide, will be cremated on Tuesday. His body has been kept at the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce for the public to pay their last respects. Uday, 33, hanged himself to death from the ceiling in his flat on Sunday. “Since this (Tuesday) morning Uday’s body has been kept […]
Ram Setu case: New government advocate to represent Centre
New Delhi: The Ram Setu case in the Supreme Court will have a new advocate to represent the Centre. Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad will now represent the Centre in the case after the recusal of Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan. Mr Kuhad will be the third advocate to represent the government in the case. Solicitor General […]
Cold wave continues in Kashmir; Leh is coldest recorded place
Srinagar: The mercury continues to be in a free fall in Kashmir and Ladakh divisions as Leh was the coldest recorded place at minus 17.4 degrees Celsius in the state. Last night Leh recorded a plunge of almost 10 degrees from the previous night’s minus 7.9 degrees Celsius, an official of the MET Department said here. […]
Indian Passenger Arrested After Allegedly Attacking JetBlue Crew
By Indiawest A Southern California woman heading to Bogota, Colombia to meet her family for the holidays was arrested on Christmas Eve after allegedly attacking a JetBlue crew member on a flight from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Trisha Sen, 39, was arrested early morning Dec. 24 by Broward County sheriffs immediately upon landing, […]
The Man Who Forgot He Was Prime Minister
By Vaibhav Vats NEW DELHI — In political life, perhaps there is no public reaction more denigrating than ridicule. Criticism is part of the terrain, but ridicule entails a deeper kind of humiliation, where the right to even be heard seriously has been taken away. Ridicule was what greeted Manmohan Singh when, on Friday, he […]
