China is India's largest trading partner, with two-way commerce totalling $66.5 billion last year. But trade is skewed significantly in China's favour with the deficit totalling $29 billion in 2012, according to Chinese figures.
Test paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other bowlers were to appear Tuesday in court over allegations that they accepted tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing, police said.
Narendra Modi will attend his first meeting of BJP’s parliamentary board today, which follows party chief Rajnath Singh’s decision to handover Uttar Pradesh affairs to his close confidant Amit Shah to prepare for the Lok Sabha polls. HT reports.
A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and leaving at least 91 people dead, including 20 children, local officials said.
An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds. The so-called super-capacitor, charges quickly and holds its charge for a long time, according to reports.
Delhi Police detained one more former cricketer-turned-bookmaker on Monday and its officials made the startling claim that every team in the domestic T20 league may have been infiltrated by bookie “modules”.
Jatin Anand and
Karn Pratap Singh report.
A new exposé by a website, founded by journalist Ashish Khetan, claims to have evidence of how India’s anti-terror police framed 13 innocent Muslims, trumping up charges and withholding crucial evidence.
Zia Haq reports.
A Pakistani court granted bail to the former president Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto on Monday, an official said.
Accused of killing his teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, dentist Rajesh Talwar on Monday told a CBI court that he was not aware of what happened in his daughter's room on the night of crime as he was fast asleep.
At least 43 people were killed in car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi capital and the southern oil hub of Basra today, police and medics said.
On a day the teen girl set afire by the father of her alleged rapist died in Raisen district, a similar case was reported from Bhind. In Guna district, yet another girl set herself on fire to escape continuous harassment by her neighbour. HT reports.
A suicide bomber blew up a senior official and 14 others outside a government office in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Monday, police said.
Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) legislator Sanjay Singh Monday filed a defamation case against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad for allegedly using unparliamentary language against him.