The Australian government has set up a high-level group to look into the causes of the continuing attacks on Indians in its country.

Nations that press ahead with economic revamp are placing more emphasis on maths and science, building their infrastructure and investing in clean energy, because they want to create jobs, President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address.

After months of speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced on Wednesday night what the U.S. technology company Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the planet: a slender tablet computer called the iPad.

Amid confusion about the availability of spectrum for the launch of 3G mobile services, the Department of Telecommunications might delay the spectrum auction till the next fiscal.

Sixty two years after Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, ashes of the apostle of peace, preserved by a family friend, were finally immersed in the Indian Ocean off the South African coast on Saturday.

From Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, from Gujarat to Assam, Indians celebrated a peaceful 61st Republic Day on Tuesday, undaunted by terror threats, Maoist shutdowns, separatist boycotts or even the morning fog that blanketed New Delhi where thousands congregated for the grand parade of military might and cultural diversity.

From Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, from Gujarat to Assam, Indians celebrated a peaceful 61st Republic Day on Tuesday, undaunted by terror threats, Maoist shutdowns, separatist boycotts or even the morning fog that blanketed New Delhi where thousands congregated for the grand parade of military might and cultural diversity.

A day after Home Minister P Chidambaram criticised Indian Premier League organisers for doing a “disservice to cricket” by not including Pakistani players, IPL chief Lalit Modi said cricketers from across the border still had a chance to be part of the Twenty20 event.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a second term in office today, defeating joint opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka, the army chief who helped him crush the LTTE. Gen Fonseka rejected the outcome, and had not, till late evening, emerged from his central Colombo hotel, which was surrounded by heavily armed soldiers.