'Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals not run out of beds.''That good news, or absence of expected bad news, is the truth that so many in the international community, and also......
About 9 million people in Mumbai live in areas where homes are hardly two metres apart.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com reports on the lurking dangers in the city's slums in the times of the......
Finally, to end the dispute Sharma threatened to show her shoes.Pasbola declared regally that he would like to forgo that particular honour.Sharma ignored him.Instead, she bent down, took off her......
United States Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen (R) is welcomed by the chair of Joint Congressional Economic hearing, Senator Daniel Coats on 'The Economic Outlook' in Washington. Photograph:......
HSBC Holdings has named a former agent of the Department of Homeland Security and expert on high-risk clients to head a US anti-money laundering operation being revamped after the bank paid a......
Raja Sen analyses the 2013 Oscar nominations.What are we to make of you, Uncle Oscar? When you can have 10 Best Picture nominees and choose instead to have only nine, thus snubbing The Master and......
We stand poised on the brink of certain history. I will take wagers -- at whatever odds you offer -- that despite The Dark Knight coming to theatres only on Friday, there is already more than......
The Czech Republic's Frantisek Cermak and Slovakia's Michal Mertinak became the latest players to be banned and fined for betting on tennis matches, the ATP said on Monday. As the governing body......
Giorgio Galimberti has become the fourth Italian player to be banned for betting on tennis matches, the ATP said on Monday. In a statement, the men's governing body said the 31-year-old had been......