In a world where personal and urban mobility is dominated by the bland dorkiness of the Segway, a 13 year old girl and her inventor father are hoping the RYNO Motors microcycle, a motorized unicycle, will revolutionize how mall cops, Arab sheiks and Hollywood's flush rising stars travel.
The trial in the whistleblower case involving Infosys and one of its employees in the U.S. has been postponed from August 20 to September 17.
Most of the Asian markets rose Friday as investor confidence was lifted after German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed her country's commitment to support measures to alleviate the debt crisis faced by the euro zone.
From December 1, cigarettes and tobacco products in Australia must be sold in plain olive green packets with graphic health warnings, such as pictures of mouth cancer and other smoking-related illnesses.
R.K. Singh, India’s Home Secretary, tried to calm the situation by blaming the unrest on "rumor- mongering" and rejected the notion that migrants were at risk in Bangalore, India’s affluent technological hub.
Ethnic violence in India's northeastern state of Assam, which has left at least 80 dead and 200,000 displaced so far, has continued to spread panic across India, including southern Indian cities like Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad where people of Northeast origin feared a backlash.
India's leading carmaker Maruti Suzuki will restart production at its Manesar plant August 21, almost a month after the plant was shut down following violence by workers.
The upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran, quite ironically, has become a stage to gauge the member nations' stand on certain international issues, though the world's largest single political coalition doesn't promise support to any major power bloc.
There comes a time in the life cycle of most commodities when China, home to 1.3 billion people and counting, takes over as the world's biggest consumer. For gold, that moment is drawing near.
Two of ancient India’s most important and grandest Sanskrit epics, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana, vividly describe giant, magnificent space vessels which took fantastic voyages to distant stars and planets.
The demand for gold fell to its lowest level in two years in the second quarter of 2012, as the price rise along with the economic slowdown has deterred major consumers India and China from buying the yellow metal, the World Gold Council said on Thursday.
Heavily armed suspected Islamist militants Thursday attacked one of Pakistan's largest air bases, resulting in an intense firefight for several hours that left seven gunmen and two security personnel dead.
Expect a popular backlash if the government raises diesel prices to halt the subsidy drain on its finances - not only from the millions of poor who need cheap fuel but from increasing numbers of the well-off and businesses who don't.
Asian markets were mixed Thursday as investors maintained a watchful mode awaiting monetary easing measures from policymakers around the world to tackle the weakening of the global economic growth.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that the country was unable to create an environment for rapid economic growth due to lack of political consensus and promised to work hard to shield the country from the effects of global economic slowdown.
India's leading carmaker Maruti Suzuki will restart production at its Manesar plant early next week, Reuters reported quoting the Nikkei business daily.
A rights group has urged the Nepal government to revoke its recently imposed ban on women under the age of 30 working in the Persian Gulf nations and, instead, improve protective measures to ensure safer migration for domestic workers.
India Wednesday celebrated its 66th Independence Day with gaiety and fervor. The celebrations were held in offices, colleges and schools across the country with cultural programs.
Most of the Asian markets fell Wednesday as investor confidence was weighed down by the lack of stimulus measures from policymakers to support the global economy and regain the growth momentum.
Unless India's Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been hiding all the ground-breaking policy decisions for next year, the 2014 general elections aren't likely to go their way. However, a latest survey indicates that they won't go the other way either, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led main opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) likely to lose seats, raising the hopes for a third political front to come to power.
India's cabinet minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died Tuesday at a hospital in Chennai, Indian media reported. He was suffering from malignant hepatoma, a type of liver cancer, which had led to multiple organ failure.
India's exports and imports declined for the second consecutive month in July due to the global economic slowdown and a fall in the prices of oil.
