Christine Fair, who infuriated New Delhi when she alleged that India was meddling in Balochistan, has been offered the India portfolio in the Obama administration.
Four men and a woman were convicted and sentenced for stealing money and other items from the hotel rooms of some England players, South Africa's prosecution authority said on Monday.
The New York-based Rand Corporation's 182-page report, 'Film piracy, organized crime and terrorism' essentially says film piracy is increasingly becoming a way to finance terrorism.
Suspended Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi on Friday denied making a bonus payment of one million rand to Cricket South Africa chief Gerald Majola for agreeing to host the second edition of the T20 League in South Africa last year.
India's Deepika Kumari missed out on a medal as she lost to Kwon Un Sil of North Korea in the bronze-medal play-off of the women's individual archery event in the Asian Games.
US President Donald Trump identified New York, California and Washington as the three major coronavirus hot spots.
India should review its Kashmir policy for itself, not for others, C Christine Fair, senior political scientist, RAND Corporation, tells KS Manjunath.
Pakistan is still courting militant groups and needs to abandon militancy as a tool of its foreign and domestic policy as this has the potential to backfire, a new study has warned.
In the test, a space rocket boosted a hypersonic glide vehicle, one capable of carrying a nuclear device, which circled the globe before impacting.
A Rand Corporation study on the November 26 terrorist attacks on Mumbai has concluded that India will remain a target of Pakistan-based terrorism for the foreseeable future because of the inability of New Delhi and the international community to compel Islamabad to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in that country.
American model Cindy Crawford who will turn 50 on February 20, will no longer be walking the ramp
The Spanish man who ran onto the pitch at the World Cup final and tried to place a hat on the trophy was fined 2,000 rand ($260) by a South African court.
'I don't see any relationship between them and ex-army or ex-ISI as has been happening in the past,' says strategic analyst Shuja Nawaz, who is convinced the Pakistan army and its intelligence wing, the Inter-Services Intelligence, are not complicit in the Mumbai terror attacks.
Just as the Sumerians had to make the transition from hunting to farming, bankers are learning to deal with derivatives while curbing their dangers.
Faf du Plessis pointed out that they were missing out on their best players due to the Kolpak deal.
In India, it is not easy to fight it out with the large banks which are nimble-footed and technology-savvy and are continuously innovating on the retail turf with newer products for customer acquisition.
Parth J Shah is the man behind the The 100 Laws Project, a listing of the country's ludicrous but extant legislations.
Former technology executive Carly Fiorina formally entered the 2016 United States presidential race on Monday.
Greenspan never saw how derivatives would make the housing crisis a global one.
The Islamic State rakes in over US $1 million (Rs 6.4 crore) per day in extortion and taxation and the dreaded terror group has enough assets to cover its expenses despite falling oil prices, according to a media report.
While the FPI limit on most bond issues would not be raised above 6 per cent, there would be some in which there would be no limits, reports Arup Roychoudhury.
The companies that recruited the nurses are Netcare, Medi-Clinic and Life said they are planning to recruit even more staff from India. The nursing director of Netcare, Eileen Branigan, said she interviewed more than 900 nurses during a two-week-drive in South India.
Indian captain Virat Kohli and his South African counterpart Faf du Plessis made the donation of 100,000 Rand to the Gift of the Givers Foundation at the third T20 International cricket match at the Newlands Stadium on Sunday.
An interview with Kekoo Colah, executive director of Knight Frank (India) Pvt Ltd.
Mittal has been named at the top for third consecutive year with a net worth of 27.3 billion rand ($4 billion) in the latest annual list of 100 richest in South Africa, compiled by that country's weekly The Sunday Times.
An investor would be better off concentrating on the job on hand than to spend a lot of time towards investments
The Rand study suggested that al Qaeda cannot be defeated by force, but only by reaching out to its roots in religion and promoting convergence of Christianity and Islam.\n
The central African country of Equatorial Guinea has asked South Africa to extradite Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who reportedly funded a coup attempt in that nation.
A recent study finds out that one in every 50 adults are extremely obese tipping the scales over by at least 45 kgs or more.
The bond market expects at least 25 basis points cut in the June 6 policy.
Weakness in other currencies against the dollar overseas, after US Fed indicating interest rates could rise earlier than expected as the jobs market picking up, also put pressure on the local unit, forex dealers said.
With banks staying out of the bond market, and foreign investors exhausting their investment limit, the question is: Who will buy the Rs 4.6 trillion bonds that will be issued from April.
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The Reserve Bank of India sold dollars via state-owned banks around 62.3575 per dollar to contain the rupee's fall, traders said.
The bill which would have given a two-year window to bring a replacement of Obamacare was defeated by 55-45 votes on Wednesday in the Republican-majority Senate.
A top United States lawmaker has introduced a "joint resolution" in the House of Representatives to express Congress's disapproval over an arms deal with Pakistan which includes the sale of eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to the latter.
Sixty-year-old Sophie Matala, an employee at the Pretoria Medforum Hospital, found it in goulash she had ordered from the hospital canteen.
Ten South African cricket fans shared a million-rand prize after catching one-hand sixes in the recently concluded domestic cricket tournament -- The Ram Slam T20.
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