Category: Foreign News

Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations/Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy was chosen for the Special Jury Prize 2012 by the Fondation Chirac (Chirac Foundation), states a press release from the Sri Lankan Embassy in Paris. […]

MUMBAI: Singer Asha Bhosle’s 56-year-old daughter, Varsha, was found dead on a blood-soaked sofa in the Pedder Road flat she shared with her mother on Monday. She had shot herself in her right temple with the licenced pistol of her younger brother. […]

This image provided by NASA shows shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed. (AP Photo) CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found […]

Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan has alleged that India and the United States are making secret moves to conduct neutrino experiments deep inside the mountainous terrain of Idukki and Theni districts on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. […]

(CNN) — The United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in a rocket attack on the American Consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a contractor working at the mission said Wednesday after seeing Stevens’ body. […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Fires swept through two factories in Pakistan, one in the city of Karachi and the other in Lahore, killing at least 125 people, police and government officials said on Wednesday. […]

A protestor was killed when the police opened fire to control a mob after fresh clashes broke out near the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district on Monday evening. […]

US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday. […]

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard defended her decision to send asylum-seekers, arriving by boat, to Pacific islands, saying it was a “tough” policy but could save lives. […]

The Hindu DMK President M. Karunanidhi along with (from left) DMK Treasurer M.K. Stalin, Nava Sama Samaja Party president Wikramabahu Karunaratne, Lok Jana Sakthi president Ram Vilas Paswan and DMK General Secretary Anbazhagan ahead of the TESO Conference at the Accord Metropolitan Hotel in Chennai on Sunday. Photo: R. Ragu The Madras High Court on […]

From left: Brian Wijeratne, 19, his sister, Eleesha, 16, and his parents — Antonette, 50, and Jayantha, 49. Jayantha and Eleesha were killed in a head-on crash. Antonette suffered serious injuries. TORONTO, Ont. – Police have identified the man and his 16-year-old daughter killed in a two vehicle crash on the eastbound QEW ramp to […]

The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars. The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet’s equator at 06:32 BST (05:32 GMT). […]

Christened by the media as the “Olympic mystery woman” after she gatecrashed the athletes’ march on the inaugural day of the 2012 London Olympics, Madhura Nagendra, back home in Bangalore, says that it was an “error of judgment” that led her to walk beside Indian flag-bearer Sushil Kumar. […]

Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown. More than half the country was hit by the power cuts after three grids collapsed – one for a second day. […]

At least 47 passengers were charred to death and 25 others injured when a fire broke in a coach of the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore early this morning after a suspected short circuit. Twenty-six passengers were rescued from the coach S 11 which was completely gutted, Nellore Collector Sridhar said. […]

LONDON: The Indian contingent is still awaiting a communication from the Olympic Games organisers on how an unidentified lady was allowed to gatecrash into the team’s march past at the Opening Ceremony even as media reports claimed to have identified the ” mystery woman”. […]