Apple has acquired a Silicon Valley startup, WiFiSlam, which makes mapping applications for smartphones. ...
08:33 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades embarked on last-minute crisis talks with international lenders on Sunday in an attempt to save the Mediterranean island from financial meltdown. ...
07:05 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Atwal, lying second after the second round at 10-under, is now eight-under 205 and tied 24th. ...
07:46 PM, Mar 24, 2013
In other matches, Tunisia pipped Sierra Leone 2-1 at home while South Africa eased to 2-0 win over Central African Republic. ...
12:43 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Cyprus's bid to avert financial collapse will go down to the wire after the island said it would hold a crucial sitting of parliament only after finance ministers of the 17-nation euro zone meet on Sunday. Cyprus faces a Monday deadline to clinch a 10 billion euro bailout from the European Union or the European Central Bank sauys it will cut off emergency funding to the country's stricken banks, spelling...
06:50 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Women and Child Development ministry has planned an initiative under which hospitals in 100 districts would have one-stop crisis centres to resolve problems being faced by women. ...
02:12 AM, Mar 24, 2013
At 10-under 132, he is one shot behind the leader, Darron Stiles (64) at the midway stage of the tournament. ...
08:35 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Cyprus is expected to make a dramatic U-turn on Saturday to avert the imminent threat of financial meltdown, having signalled it is willing to tax big savers in its stricken banks to clinch a bailout from the European Union. The island's partners in the 17-nation euro zone scheduled a meeting for Sunday in Brussels, in a strong sign they believe a solution is near. ...
06:40 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defence, the United Nations report said on Friday. ...
05:15 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao on Friday expressed concerns over Cyprus banks facing meltdown, saying it has implications on the banking sector everywhere. The Cyprus banks' is "such a big issue" as the island nation is inter-connected with the world and what happens there has implications on the banking sector everywhere, he said. ...
02:19 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Talks in Moscow on a possible funding lifeline from Russia to Cyprus ended without result, further cutting the island's options for raising the billions of euros it needs to find by Monday to avert a financial meltdown. ...
01:57 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searches at Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Stalin's residence came within 24 hours after the party withdrew support to the UPA government and claimed it was a "clear signal" to the parties supporting the ruling dispensation. Senior party leader Sitaram Yechury also termed the agency as "Congress Bureau of Investigation". ...
08:35 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The Civil Aviation Ministry on Thursday abolished the Aircraft Acquisition Committee (AAC), which used to permit import of planes by airlines and other operators, thus doing away with time-consuming procedures that affected the companies. ...
06:13 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The 1993 serial blasts in Bombay was the first terror attack in which RDX was used on a large scale since the World War II, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while dealing with the havoc caused by 12 coordinated explosions in the country's financial capital. "This was the first ever terrorist attack in the world where RDX (Research Department Explosive) was used on a large scale basis after the...
05:07 PM, Mar 21, 2013
One of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case masterminds Yakub Memon's death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court even as 10 others, who were used to plant the bombs, have got some relief as the the apex court commuted their death penalty to life term. Yakub was convicted in 1993 blast case and is the brother of Ibrahim Mushtaq 'Tiger' Memon, one of the prime accused of the attacks...
12:08 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Cyprus considered nationalising pension funds and ordered banks to stay shut till next week to avert financial chaos after it rejected the terms of a European Union bailout and turned to Russia for aid. ...
07:40 AM, Mar 21, 2013
A panel of judges on Wednesday recommended the dissolution of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which President Mohammed Morsi hails, arguing it has no legal status. ...
06:18 AM, Mar 21, 2013
United Progressive Alliance's estranged ally Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sprang a surprise by promising to support the Centre on whatever stand it took on Sri Lankan Tamils issue at the UNHRC. ...
08:00 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Targeting the government on the ongoing crisis over Sri Lanka issue, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said the UPA was on "ventilator". "The government is on ventilator, why is the Samajwadi Party supporting the government, it has to answer," he said. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 20, 2013
While DMK has pulled out of the UPA government, even Samajwadi Party which has been extending outside support to the ruling coalition has been playing hardball. The UPA government has been claiming that it is stable and there is no threat of elections taking place before the Lok Sabha terms ends. ...
05:35 PM, Mar 20, 2013
