Aurora (Illinois), Oct 28 (IANS) A local school auditorium was converted for a few hours into a mini India for the Diwali celebration hosted by the City of Aurora, the second largest in Illinois, after…
Washington, Oct 28 (IANS) Two Indian-Americans were sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Tennessee court, in the US, for conspiring to commit murder. In 2013, cousins Prattikumar Patel and Kalpesh Patel conspired to…
Washington, Oct 28 (IANS) An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer last February told him “no English” five times and said “India” three times, according to US prosecutors. Sureshbhai Patel,…
San Francisco, Oct 28 (IANS) Technology giant Apple has announced a profit of $11.12 billion for the last fiscal quarter and posted earnings of $53.4 billion for the entire year. Figures for the last quarter…
Athens, Oct 28 (IANS) Archaeologists unearthed a 3,500-year-old unlooted grave of a warrior in Peloponnese peninsula in “the most impressive discovery of prehistoric funerary wealth in Greece in the past 65 years,” according to the…
Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday convicted a 39-year old man of robbing, raping, burning and killing a techie from Andhra Pradesh in January last year. Women Court special judge Vrushali Joshi…
Bengaluru, Oct 27 (IANS) The 7.5 magnitude quake that rattled Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India on October 26 has made some analysts wonder if the date 26 is jinxed. Or is it just a coincidence…
Agra, Oct 27 (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday visited the Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city and said: “It is even more stunning than I expected.” “I’m in India…
Bengaluru, Oct 27 (IANS) Indian spinner Amit Mishra was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend in a city hotel recently and was freed on bail later, police said. “Mishra was formally arrested after…
Agartala, Oct 27 (IANS) Former Andhra Pradesh High Court chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta will be the first chairman of the Tripura Human Rights Commission, an official said here on Tuesday. “A three-member committee headed…
Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) For the second time in six months, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped a notice summoning Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in connection with the valuation of shares of his co-owned…
Vijayawada: Opulence is more visible in the capital villages these days. It is not just bikes and posh duplex houses that display wealth. It is more than that. Elevators in the residential houses and horses…
Chennai, Oct 26 (IANS) Dismissing a petition by a British national charged with child abuse, the Madras High Court has suggested to the central government to look into the option of castration as a punishment…
Hyderabad, Oct 26 (IANS) Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), a leading biologicals company, has set up a new facility with an investment of Rs.250 crore near here and is set to become India’s largest producer of…
Srinu Vaitla who has been going through a rough patch on his professional side and now looks like not all is rosy on the family front too. Roopa Vaitla has filed a case against Director…
The University of California, Berkeley, has expressed its interest in setting up two research centres in agriculture and basic sciences. Chief secretary IYR Krishna Rao has received a letter to this effect from the university….
Domestic handset-vendor Lava will invest Rs.500 crore to set up a manufacturing plant in 20 acres in Tirupati. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation for a mobile manufacturing and electronics hub in…
Beijing, Oct 26 (IANS) A Chinese biotechnological company announced that it has developed the world’s first 3D blood vessel bio-printer, which makes it possible to produce personalised functional organs, the media reported on Monday. Sichuan…
Bengaluru, Oct 26 (IANS) Karnataka is groping in the dark again as a deficit southwest monsoon has plunged the state into a major power crisis due to poor hydel generation and demand outstripping supply over…
Singapore, Oct 26 (IANS) A stem cell bank in Singapore, which will allow members of the public to store their own stem cells for the future, is set to open on Tuesday, officials confirmed on…