An Indian doctor who devoted her lifetime to Ghana
ACCRA: Hope is at hand for an Indian gynaecologist who has worked for 45 years in Ghana without a permanent residency permit and is currently being sheltered in the ward of a local hospital. Uma Sen, 80, popularly called “Mama”, who has spent over half her life working as a specialist all over Ghana, is now being […]
New York City sues FedEx for illegally shipping cigarettes
New York: New York City has sued FedEx Corp, accusing it of illegally delivering millions of contraband cigarettes to people’s homes and seeking $52 million in fines and unpaid taxes. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, marks one of the last acts by the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose more than decade-old […]
Arvind Kejriwal keeps his power promise; 50% tariff cut for usage upto 400 units in Delhi
New Delhi: The Delhi Cabinet has cleared a 50 per cent cut in electricity tariffs for the capital. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced this after chairing a cabinet meeting at the Delhi Secretariat this evening. He had earlier announced that the three major power distribution companies in the capital will be audited starting tomorrow. Mr Kejriwal said the […]
Bobby Jindal will run for President in 2016: US
WASHINGTON: Top Republican leader and current governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal is planning to run for President in 2016, a top US Senator from his home State has said. “I do think, he (Jindal) will run. He is being running. He would be a significant candidate,” Senator David Vitter told private American TV channel C-SPAN’s Newsmakers programme in an interview. “I […]
Christie’s First Auction in India Breaks Records for Local Artists
Demonstrating the robust demand for Indian art, Christie’s first auction in India almost doubled its high estimate of $8 million to bring in $15.4 million, or 965.9 million rupees, selling nearly all the works on offer and breaking a number of records for Indian artists. Among the records broken at the sale, which was held […]
U.S. Flouts Its Own Advice in Procuring Overseas Clothing
WASHINGTON — One of the world’s biggest clothing buyers, the United States government spends more than $1.5 billion a year at factories overseas, acquiring everything from the royal blue shirts worn by airport security workers to the olive button-downs required for forest rangers and the camouflage pants sold to troops on military bases. But even […]
Devyani Khobragade case: US embassy paid for air tickets of domestic help’s family, say sources
New Delhi: The US embassy had paid for the air tickets for three family members of domestic help of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade when they were ‘evacuated’ from New Delhi to New York last week, sources said today. The tickets for domestic help Sangeeta Richard’s husband Philip Richard and their two children – Jennifer and […]
Arvind Kejriwal to be Delhi chief minister, it’s ‘AAP ki baari’
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal will be the new Chief Minister of Delhi. His one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party or AAP will form government in Delhi with external support from the Congress. “The aam aadmi will be chief minister, not me,” Mr Kejriwal said after meeting Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung. He has requested that his oath-taking ceremony, at an […]
Devyani Khobragade transferred to India’s permanent mission at UN
NEW DELHI: Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested in the US, has been transferred to the permanent mission at United Nations, which entitles her to full diplomatic immunity. Earlier, the Prime Minister’s remarks on the issue came soon after the government asserted in Parliament that India will take strong steps to ensure the return of the […]
A Top Iraqi Official’s Advice to Karzai? Take America’s Deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — With one of the most important chapters of Afghanistan’s history open before him, President Hamid Karzai took time this month for a personal meeting with the longtime foreign minister of Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari. It had been years since an Iraqi official had been to Afghanistan, and the trip was nominally meant to […]
Alcohol consumption ban in Singapore’s Little India extended
Singapore: Singapore today extended by six months the ban on alcohol consumption in public during weekends and holidays at Little India, the scene of the country’s worst riot in 40 years. The ban on alcohol consumption in public at Little India would continue every weekend, public holiday and eve of public holiday within the proclaimed area, […]
Devyani Khobragade case: she was strip searched ‘like other arrestees’ say US Marshals
New Delhi/New York: At the centre of the diplomatic row between India and the US is the humiliation of high-ranking diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was inexplicably treated like a hardened criminal after her arrest for alleged visa fraud last week. In an email to her colleagues in the Indian Foreign Service, Ms Khobragade, the deputy consul […]
Reliance, Dassault planning facility to produce warplane wings: report
New Delhi: France’s Dassault Aviation and Reliance Industries are planning to set up a facility to produce wings of Rafale combat aircraft selected by IAF for meeting its requirement of 126 fighter planes. The two firms are planning to set up a Rs. 1,000-crore facility for producing the wings of the Rafale combat aircraft and it is […]
Supreme Court verdict on plea against decriminalising gay sex likely today
New Delhi: In a decision that will have a far-reaching implication for gays, lesbians and transgenders across the country, the Supreme Court will today pronounce a crucial verdict on whether homosexuality should be treated as a criminal offence. The top court will deliver its order on petitions challenging the landmark Delhi High Court judgment of 2009 […]
Nonresident Indians Play Major Role in Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi Campaign
During the month of November, Mohan Thirumalai, an information systems manager at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, would pick up his phone at his home in Alabama around 10 p.m. and dial a random number in Delhi, the first of around 60 calls he would make each night. When someone answered the phone, Mr. […]
Iran will ‘immediately’ export more oil once sanctions lifted
Vienna: Iran will “immediately” export more crude oil once sanctions are lifted in the wake of the international deal to roll back its nuclear programme, the country’s oil minister said Tuesday. “Immediately we can” return to full export capacity of four million barrels per day, Iran Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters ahead of OPEC’s meeting […]
KCR says Rayala-Telangana is unacceptable, calls bandh on Thursday
Hyderabad: Politician K Chandrasekhara Rao or KCR, as he is known, has warned that he will lead a massive agitation against any plans by the centre to create a larger Telangana state than originally discussed. A total bandh or strike has been called by him in the Telangana region on Thursday. “Now is the time for each one […]
India says ready to start Iran oil cash transfer after deal
New Delhi: Indian refiners are ready to start transferring cash owed for Iranian oil as early as next week following a landmark deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme that allows importers to shift billions of dollars back to Iran. World powers agreed on Sunday to ease some of the sanctions they had imposed to force Iran […]
Talwar couple found guilty of killing daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj
NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Monday convicted dentist Rajesh Tawlar and his wife Nupur Talwar for killing their daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj. Special CBI judge Shyam Lal held the couple guilty of murder and destruction of evidence under section 302 and 201 of Indian Penal code(IPC) respectively. Rajesh Talwar was also separately held guilty, under section 203, of […]
‘Too fat to fly’ Frenchman lands in Britain
London: A young Frenchman who was stranded in the United States because he was deemed too heavy to fly finally took a plane to Britain on Monday, one step closer to going home. Kevin Chenais, who has a hormone imbalance and weighs 230 kilograms (500 pounds), arrived at London’s Heathrow airport with his parents early Monday […]
