June 23, 2014
‘While in power, Karunanidhi remained silent when A.P. tried to build a dam’
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa
June 23, 2014
A superb header by Silvestre Varela deep into time added on saved Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal from crashing out of the World Cup finals on Sunday as it secured a 2-2 draw with the United States.
June 23, 2014
Ratifies IAEA Additional Protocol; decks cleared for nuclear imports
The picture shows the fifth and sixth reactor units, each of 220 MWe, at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) at Rawatbhatta.
June 22, 2014
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 460 (Brathwaite 129, Bravo 109, Blackwood 63, Sodhi 4-96) and 95 for 0 (Gayle 80*) beat New Zealand 221 (Latham 82, Taylor 4-34) and 331 (Craig 67, Watling 66*, Williamson 52, Roach 4-74) by ten wickets
June 22, 2014
‘Music is the common language of the world’
Flautist B. Shankara Rao speaking at the World Music Day celebration at the Kannada Bhavana in Bangalore on Saturday.
June 20, 2014
BAGHDAD: Sunni militants have hung their black banners on watch towers at Iraq's largest oil refinery, a witness said on Thursday, suggesting the vital facility had fallen to the insurgents holding vast territories across the country's north. A top Iraqi security official, however, said the government still holds the facility.
June 19, 2014
Taiwanese poet Yu Hsi has been roped in to translate 1,330 couplets of Tirukkural
Taiwanese poet Yu Hsi
The Chinese translation of Tirukkural, a Tamil classic in couplets, and select poems of national poet Subramanya Bharathi has been completed, thanks to the efforts of Tamil University here.
June 19, 2014
DIPP says no proof of urgent need for copy of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s blood cancer drug Dasatinib
June 19, 2014
Other members in the committee are Additional Solicitor General L Nageswara Rao, senior advocate Niloy Datta and senior IPS officer B B Mishra.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has joined the Supreme Court-appointed Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal committee probing the allegations of betting and spot-fixing in the sixth Indian Premier League.
June 19, 2014
Centre directs Department of Telecommunications to file an “effective” affidavit that supports CBI’s stance in the 2G scam case before the Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Centre has reversed the stance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government in the multi-crore 2G spectrum allocation scam.
