NATO gives woman top press job for first time
Brussels: NATO on Thursday announced that it has given a woman its top press job for the first time in its 61-year history as it announced the hiring of international journalist Oana Lungescu as spoke
Nobel prize for dissident is like encouraging crime: China
Beijing: China on Thursday upped its hostile rhetoric against the Nobel Peace Prize for jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, saying it was 'equivalent to encouraging crime'.
"Liu Xiaobo is a convicted crimi
Kashmir: Death toll reaches 110, curfew returns
Srinagar: A 55-year-old man, allegedly beaten up by security forces on October 7, died at a hospital here on Friday, taking the death toll in the over four-month-long unrest in Kashmir Valley to 110.
Infosys returns to double-digit growth, ups guidance again
Bangalore: Returning to double digit growth in net profit and revenue during the second quarter (July-Sep), India's second largest IT bellwether on Friday revised revenue guidance for this fiscal (201
India's annual food inflation nudges up to 16.37 per cent
New Delhi: India's annual food inflation moved up a bit to 16.37 per cent for the week ended on October 2 compared to 16.24 per cent the previous week, increasing the pressure on the Reserve Bank of I
Indian goodwill triumphed over Kalmadi: Oz paper
Melbourne: "The people of India, their goodwill and their kindness triumphed over the (Commonwealth Games) Organising Committee's chaos and corruption in the end," an Australian newspaper said on Frid
Obama in India: Focus on outsourcing concerns, exports
New Delhi: India on Friday said it will raise concerns expressed by its IT industry over the US curbs on outsourcing when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets US President Barack Obama next month and w
Police inspector jailed for raping minor
Hyderabad: A police inspector, accused of raping his colleague's 16-year-old daughter, surrendered on Thursday before a city court after evading arrest for over a month.
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Heena’s medals missing
New Delhi, Oct. 13: Pistol shooter Heena Sidhu’s bag, containing the gold and silver medals won by her during the Commonwealth Games, went missing on Wednesday when she placed her bag in the scanner d
Aussie CWG delegate on `Cinderella hunt'
A pair of 200-year-old embroidered Mughal slippers belonging to an Indian "princess" has set an Australian delegate to the Commonwealth Games on a Cinderella hunt in India.