New Delhi, Dec 16 Finally, India’s squash queen Dipika Pallikal has broken her silence to confirm that Dinesh Karthik and she are indeed engaged. For good measure, she adds that she hated cricketers till she met the wicketkeeper-batsman, believing the enormous fame and publicity they get is dwarfing other sportspersons. Not that she has changed […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 India Tuesday sought “unconditional apology” from the US over the arrest and the purported strip search of its ranking diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York and also took a slew of steps to pare down the privileges of American diplomats in an apparent retaliatory measure. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said […]
Johannesburg, Dec 17 India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday said the team has accepted the fact that they are into an era without cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and has moved on to focus on the Test series against South Africa. As India gear up for the first Test at the Wanderers here starting Wednesday, it […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday said it will take a final decision on government formation Dec 23, after seeking public opinion in the capital until the weekend. AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said it would seek a “yes” or “no” from the people following a split verdict that has given no political […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 The Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, which provides for creation of an anti-corruption ombudsman. The most prominent of the group of anti-graft bills on the anvil, the Lokpal bill seeks to establish a Lokpal at the central level and asks states to establish Lokayuktas within a year’s […]
Addis Ababa, Dec 15 In a gesture well appreciated here, Indian businessmen and the Indian community here have come to the aid of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian returnees from Saudi Arabia. Sanjay Verma, newly-appointed Ambassador of India to Ethiopia, accompanied by Mayur Kothari, the convener of the Indian Business Forum (IBF) and Rajeev Sharma, Deputy […]
Singapore, Dec 17 Two more Indian nationals, aged 35 and 41, were charged Tuesday in connection with the riots in this city-state Dec 8, taking the total number of people charged to 35. If the men charged in the case are found guilty of rioting they could be jailed for up to seven years and […]
Qamishly (Syria), Dec 16 UN aid agencies have begun airlifting urgently needed humanitarian aid to Qamishly in northeast Syria as winter storm Alexa dumped large amounts of snow on hundreds of thousands of homeless war victims and brought down temperatures in the region. Households displaced by the civil war are facing one of the country’s […]
Wellington, Dec 17 Two women in the New Zealand have been jailed for eight years and eight months each for killing an Indian man after luring him with promises of sex. Crystal Black, 26, and her partner Krystel Pokai, 25, appeared before Justice Murray Gilbert in the high court at Gisborne city in northeastern New […]
Chicago, Dec 17 Indian American groups have taken keen interest in the recent Indian state elections with a large number of them seeing the defeat of the Congress as a chance to root out the endemic corruption in the country and restore good governance. Community meetings have been held in several cities from Chicago to […]