Narendra Modi Casts B.J.P. as Tech-Friendly Party During Bangalore Rally
BANGALORE — In his first campaign stop in southern India, Narendra Modi, the opposition candidate for prime minister, appealed to voters in this outsourcing hub on Sunday by characterizing his Bharatiya Janata Party as the champion of information technology and the governing Congress Party as the enemy of social media. The 43.6 million voters in […]
India must boycott CHOGM: Tamil Nadu assembly
CHENNAI: Amidst large-scale protests across the state against external affairs minister Salman Khurshid participating in Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), slated to be held in Sri Lanka from November 15 to 17, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday moved a resolution in the assembly demanding that India boycott the summit. The special session of the assembly was […]
Story Behind a Stapled Chinese Visa
NEW DELHI — On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and Prime Minister Li Keqiang of China oversaw the signing of nine agreements on issues like river-sharing and cooperation against terrorism. The most notable among these was the Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, meant to calm down tensions along the disputed 3,380-kilometer (2,100-mile) Himalayan […]
Rising Despair as Officials Struggle to Get Aid to Victims
CEBU, the Philippines — An American aircraft carrier headed to the Philippines on Tuesday on an emergency mission to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan as the situation on the islands became increasingly desperate, with food and water supplies running low and bodies lying uncollected in the streets of at least one devastated city. Survivors of […]
US will get surveillance right, John Kerry says
WARSAW: US secretary of state John Kerry is vowing that a review into NSA surveillanceactivities will ultimately result in the “right” balance between security and privacy and says outrage over alleged espionage and eavesdropping should not disrupt key trade talks between Europe and the United States. Speaking in Warsaw after talks with Poland’s foreign minister, Kerry said on Tuesday […]
Bangladesh court sentences 150 soldiers to death for 2009 mutiny
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Tuesday sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death during a mass verdict over a 2009 mutiny in which scores of top officers were massacred, a prosecutor said. A judge convicted and sentenced to death the soldiers over the mutiny in which 74 people including officers were hacked to death, tortured or burnt alive before their bodies […]
India a Hub for Patients From Afghanistan
NEW DELHI – Three years ago, the family of Rohullah Afzali, 23, a medical student at a university in Herat in western Afghanistan, noticed changes in his behavior. He was often brooding, anxious and sometimes angry. He would stay awake for three, even four nights on end. Doctors suspected he had a bipolar disorder and […]
India’s mission to Mars successfully completes first stage
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh: India’s first mission to Mars successfully completed its first stage on Tuesday, entering orbit around Earth 44 minutes after blast-off from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. (First pics) The launch rocket “has placed the Mars Orbiter spacecraft very precisely into an elliptical orbit around Earth,” the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation […]
Two days later, more bombs found at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan
Patna: Two days after a string of bombs exploded at Gandhi Maidan in Patna just before Narendra Modi’s massive rally, three more bombs have been found in the park, despite it being cordoned off for inspection by forensic and other experts. At least one of these bombs was very powerful, a senior policeman said. One bomb […]
The Curious Case of India and China
During his recent visit to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India said that when the two Asian giants shake hands, the world takes notice. Although the statement stands true, the real question to ask is whether the media and the security and diplomatic community in the two countries make much of this handshake. It […]
Unnao treasure hunt yield so far: shards, bangles, brick wall
The search for gold in the 19th century Buxar fort in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh has so far yielded shards, broken glass bangles and hopscotch toys among other things, officials said on Monday. The Archeological Survey of India, which started digging for gold treasure on the basis of a dream by seer Shoban Sarkar […]
After Russia visit, PM eyes India-China border pact
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is leaving for Beijing on Tuesday morning on the second – and the challenging part of his two-nation visit – to seal a new border management pact and ask China to walk the talk on reducing the burgeoning trade deficit between the two countries. Singh’s visit is counted as historic because […]
India to launch Mars Orbiter Mission on November
CHENNAI: India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday. The launch, which was scheduled on October 28, got postponed because of a delay in one of the ships carrying radars for monitoring the rocket in reaching the […]
No Facebook! Bangalore schools ask students to delete profiles
Bangalore: If you’re a school kid in Bangalore, be prepared to confront the possibility of a life without Facebook. After banning logging onto social networks on campus, some schools have asked that Facebook accounts be deleted entirely by their students. Among them, prestigious and private schools like Delhi Public Shool, St John High School and Vidya […]
Sachin Tendulkar to play for Mumbai in Ranji Trophy before Test series
MUMBAI: In order to prepare for the two-match Test series against the West Indies next month, Sachin Tendulkar will play for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy preliminary round match against Haryana at Lahli starting on October 27. Tendulkar, who will retire after playing the second Test (November 14-18) against the West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium, will play in the Ranji […]
Gold premiums hit record in India
MUMBAI: Gold premiums in India, the world’s biggest buyer of the precious metal, hit a record $100 an ounce, about 8 per cent over London prices, on a shortage of supplies to meet festival demand, traders said on Tuesday. Banks, the primary dealers of bullion, are currently importing the yellow metal chiefly for exporters, as under the […]
24-year-old woman found stabbed to death in south Delhi
New Delhi: A 24-year-old wife of an army officer was found stabbed to death in her house in Delhi today, police said. The victim, identified as Saujanya, had several deep wounds on her body and her throat had been slit. Her husband Kishore discovered her body in a pool of blood at their home in Sarojini […]
US shutdown: House GOP drops plan, leaving fiscal talks in limbo
Washington: House Republican leaders struggled on Tuesday to craft a new proposal to reopen the government and change the president’s health care law, after a plan presented behind closed doors to the Republican rank-and-file failed to attract enough support immediately to pass. After more than two hours, Republican leaders backed off the plan that had emerged […]
India’s IT companies have become complacent: Ravi Venkatesan
Ravi Venkatesan, an independent board member of India’s second largest software services providerInfosys Ltd, says the country’s biggest information technology (IT) companies have become complacent after years of rapid growth and high-profit margins, and continue to avoid taking big, risky bets. “Fantastic growth and fat margins have made many companies quite complacent so there has […]
Andhra Pradesh: Seemandhra powerless as shutdown continues over Telangana
As large areas of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions reeled under power outages and shortage of essential goods on the fourth day of the shutdown on Monday, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy called the various associations and employees unions of Seemandhra which are on an indefinite strike for talks on October 9. Telangana crisis: […]
