Holders Bayern Munich kept Arsenal at bay to reach the Champions League quarter-finals with a 3-1 aggregate win on Tuesday while Diego Costa scored twice as Atletico Madrid won 4-1 on the night to knock out AC Milan. Bayern, defending a 2-0 lead from the first leg, increased their grip on the Continue Reading
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After a 15 year old Turkish boy died during an anti government demonstration last summer after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister, the protestors clashed with the police in cities across Turkey. The police The police unleashed water cannon and tear gas on thousands of demonstrators, which comes as another burden […]Continue Reading
To help save newborns from infection, here is now an antiseptic gel known as “Navi Malam,” or chlorhexidine whichs applied to prevent umbilical cord infection, which happens to be a main cause behind the death of newborns in Nepal. After Sangita Shrestha, gave birth to her baby daughter at Dhulikhel hospital, a nurse applied the […]Continue Reading
India has curbed their plans to join hands in the major emerging market bond indexes which would require India to remove restrictions on the foreign capital inflow. Also a plan to look into joining the Euroclear which happens to be the world’s largest securities settlement system has also been put on halt until the next […]Continue Reading
Indian politicians are expected to spend around $5 billion on campaigning for elections next month – a sum second only to the most expensive U.S. presidential campaign of all time – in a splurge that could give India’s floundering economy a temporary boost. India’s campaign spend, which can include cash stuffed in envelopes as well […]Continue Reading
Asian stocks slid on Monday and the dollar stepped back from its recent highs as disappointing Chinese trade data and uncertainty over the crisis in Ukraine kept risk appetite in check. Investors greeted the new week in Asia on a cautious note after data issued on Saturday showed China’s exports unexpectedly tumbled in February, swinging […]Continue Reading
Sapna is a 21-year-old woman from a lower-middle class family in the Nand Nagri area of eastern Delhi. Her face is scarred by acid. Last August, her 32-year-old relative hired men to throw it in her face as she returned from her part-time job as a helper at an adhesives factory. The relative was angry […]Continue Reading
An Indian navy officer died on Friday from a gas leak during shipyard work on a new destroyer, just two weeks after a fatal submarine accident prompted the resignation of the country’s naval chief. A navy spokesman said an unknown number of dock workers was also taken to hospital after being affected by a leak […]Continue Reading
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using falseidentities.There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the Boeing 777-200ER would have vanished from radar screens about an hour […]Continue Reading
The New York Times on Tuesday corrected a 161-year-old story about Solomon Northup, whose memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie “12 Years a Slave.” The January 20, 1853, article, headlined “The Kidnapping Case,” tells the story of Northup, a black man born free in the northern United States, who was kidnapped in […]Continue Reading



















