India

Mumbai, Mar 21: With 40 stores in 17 months of its operations, India is the fastest growing market in the history of the Seattle-based iconic American coffee chain Starbucks, according to a company statement. The US-based coffee chain, which had sewed up an equal joint venture with Tata Global Beverages, opened its first outlet in Mumbai in October 2012. "With 40 stores in four cities (in 17

Mumbai, Mar 21: A Mumbai sessions court on Friday awarded life sentence to four convicts in one of the two gang rape cases that took place at the Shakti Mills compound in 2013. The survivor, who worked as a telephone operator was violated in July last year. However, she registered the case much later, after the gang rape of a photojournalist by five men at the same location on August 22, 2013

Tokyo, Mar 21: India and Singapore won the 2014 edition of the UN-Water "Water for Life" Best Practices Award for their sustainable practices of water resources, authorities said Friday. The award was announced by the United Nations Office during an official UN ceremony here to mark World Water Day 2014 Friday, reported Xinhua. "The winners this year are excellent examples of two organizations

New York, Mar 21: A US court has asked Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport to show that she was not in the US between Sep 2 and Sep 9 last year. Gandhi had filed a motion in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, seeking dismissal of a human rights violation case against her relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, asserting she had not been served the summons as

New Delhi, Mar 21: Finance minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha contest, with Congress announcing his son Karthi as the candidate from Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu. Kirit Patel will take on BJP patriarch LK Advani in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The passing of baton in Sivaganga caps the intense speculation on Chidambaram's candidature in the wake of Congress's bleak prospects

Chennai, Mar 20: In a bid to placate a sulking L K Advani, BJP President Rajnath Singh today said that it has been left to him to choose which constituency he wants to contest from, either Gandhinagar in Gujarat or Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha elections. "It is the choice of Advaniji to choose from where he wants to contest," he told a press conference here when asked about reports

Five men were today held guilty of gangrape of two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound here last year by a sessions court here.The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow. A total of seven persons, including two minors, were arrested in both the cases in which three of them are common.The principal sessions court judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi convicted Vijay Jadhav, 19

New Delhi, Mar 20: Narendra Modi today met senior BJP leader LK Advani, who is sulking over being fielded from Gandhinagar in Lok Sabha elections as he wanted to shift to Bhopal. Modi went to his residence and was there for about half-an-hour apparently to persuade him to contest from Gandhinagar, which he has represented for five times in Lok Sabha. The BJP's parliamentary board and the central

New Delhi, Mar 19: With Russia facing sanctions from the US and some other countries after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, India today made it clear that it will not support any "unilateral measures" against Russian government. "India has never supported unilateral sanctions against any country e.g Iraq or Iran. Therefore, we will also not support any unilateral measures by a country or a group of

New Delhi, Mar 19: Amid the unease in his ties with Narendra Modi, BJP veteran L K Advani has expressed desire to contest from Bhopal, shifting from Gandhinagar in Gujarat which has represented five times in the Lok Sabha. Advani is learnt to have informed party chief Rajnath Singh about his preference for Bhopal, sources said. The 86-year-old leader has argued that since most of the senior party