South Sudanese men wait to casts their vote at a polling station in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Monday. Thousands of people began casting ballots Sunday during a weeklong vote to choose the destiny of this war-rav
Your mobile phone can help treat you medically. Even as the global mobile health technology market is looking at growing at 25% annually from the current $1.5 billion (Rs 6,750 crore) to $4.6 billion (Rs 20,700
Former US President Jimmy Carter, right, greets Southern Sudanese men waiting to cast their vote at a polling station in Juba, Southern Sudan on January 9. About four million Southern Sudanese voters bega
New Delhi, January 9 (PTI): Paresh Baruah, the military chief of the banned outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), seems to be enjoying hospitality in China as his presence in the neighbouring cou
Kolkata, January 9 (PTI): Chief Election Commissioner S. Y. Quraishi on Sunday favoured banning of opinion polls with the enforcement of the model code of conduct and said the constitutional body should also be
New Delhi, January 9 (PTI): Telangana protagonists may claim Hyderabad as an integral part of their region but the statehood demand does not arouse the “same intensity of emotions” among the residen
GUWAHATI, January 9 (TAT): Peasant organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti alleged that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is involved in embezzling the public money of the State and part of the money laundered by hi
GUWAHATI, January 8 (PTI): BJP on Saturday adopted a statement on Telangana issue at its national executive meet, demanding that the government introduce a bill in Parliament at the earliest for the creation of
New Delhi, January 8 (PTI): Taking forward her resolve to take corruption head on, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written letters to Union Ministers and state chief ministers asking them to give up their d
NEW YORK, January 8 (Reuters Life!): News organizations had the most influence on the top Twitter topics in 2010 but some celebrities were not far behind, according to new research. Alok Choudhary, the chair of
Juba (Sudan), January 8 (Agencies): A new country is widely expected to emerge on the African continent following southern Sudan’s independence referendum, which begins Sunday. The week-long poll gives th
NEW DELHI, January 6 (THE HINDU): While terming the demand for a separate state of Telangana as only the “second best option’’, Justice Srikrishna Committee report on the situation in Andhra P
Centre’s interlocutor for ULFA talks P. C. Haldar (right) and ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa along with the outfits’ ‘deputy commander—in—chief’ Raju Barua, talk to media af
New Delhi, January 6 (The Pioneer): Barely a few days have passed since the observation of World AIDS Day with much fanfare allover the country, reiterating the pledge striving to achieve “universal acces