Pravasi Bharatiya Divas begins today

New Delhi: India's flagship annual event to connect with its diaspora spread across the globe will begin in New Delhi on Thursday which will primarily focus on boosting investment and sharing of expertise. ...

Role of globalization after the crisis

Writer- D.S.Rajput, New Delhi The world economy has just after the financial turmoil has become a very large-scale destruction of wealth, and declines in industrial production and global trade. According to the...

McAfee Labs latest report says 'Social Networks Threat in 2010

New Delhi: McAfee Labs, in its latest report called "2010 Threat Predictions", said it foresees an increase in threats related to social networking sites, banking security, and botnets in 2010. With the ever...

UK and France reopen their embassies in Yemen

New DElhi: The UK and France have reopened their embassies in Yemen, after they were closed earlier this week in response to a possible al-Qaeda threat. The British embassy said its public services still remained...

Amar Singh quits as Samajwadi Party Gen Secretary

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh on Wednesday resigned as General Secretary of the party on health grounds and said he wanted to devote more time to his family. He also said he had no differences...

Bangladesh won't be base for another nation's terrorists: Hasina

New Delhi: Bangladesh will not allow its territory to be used by 'militants and terrorists of another country', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. Hasina Tuesday said she would 'not invite trouble for the...

India on verge of disaster on farm front, says MS Swaminathan

New Delhi: M S Swaminathan, top Indian Agriculture scientist and one of the architects of India's green revolution, has warned that the country would face a food crisis if agriculture and farmers were ignored. "We...

Former Punjab IAS Rupan D. Bajaj demands take back Gill's Medals

New Delhi: Now it is the turn of ex-IAS officer Rupan Bajaj Rupan Deol Bajaj to take back the demand Padma Shri from Punjab's former 'supercop' KPS Gill convicted for molesting her. The center government has...

US halts Guantanamo Detainees Transfers

New Delhi: Back from his before statement US president Barack Obama has suspended the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen in the wake of the country's links to the failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a...

Cold wave claims more than 195 lives across north India

New Delhi: Cold wave claimed 195 lives across north India even as its intensity slightly abated on Tuesday after the Sun came out lifting the fog and raising temperature in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and...

US secretary of state, warned that Yemen poses a global threat

New Delhi: The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has warned that Yemen poses a global threat and has offered US support in the Yemeni government's fight against al-Qaeda. Hillary Clinton's comments came...

Police slap abetment to suicide charge against Rathore

New Delhi: In further trouble for disgraced former DGP SPS Rathore, Haryana Police on Tuesday slapped a fresh charge of abetment to suicide against him in the Ruchika molestation case. A third FIR against Rathore...

Political parties divided over Telangana issue

New Delhi:  A key meeting of political parties has begun in the Indian capital, Delhi, to prepare a "road map" for the proposed new state of Telangana. Early last month the government announced that the new...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Discovers its First Five Exopl...

New Delhi: NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. Kepler's...

China-Peru FTA to take effect in mid-January

LIMA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Peru-China Free Trade Agreement will come into force on Jan. 15, slightly earlier than planned, after Peru accelerated the ratification process in hopes of reaping early benefits from...