Yearly Archives: 2015

February 14, 2015

The Cricket World Cup is back - the tournament where teams who have been playing among themselves since forever will play among themselves, again. The tournament has 18 fewer teams than the FIFA World Cup but is still somehow almost two weeks longer.

February 14, 2015

MADISON, Alabama — An Alabama police officer has been charged with assault and will be fired after authorities say he badly injured an Indian man whom he stopped to question as the man was walking through his son's neighborhood. The man has filed a lawsuit, and the FBI has opened an investigation.

February 14, 2015

Brief Scorecard: Australia 342 for 9 (Finch 135, Maxwell 66, Bailey 55, Finn 5-71) beat England 231 (Taylor 98*, Marsh 5-33) by 111 runs

Aaron Finch gets a pat from Glenn Maxwell for his match-winning knock, Australia v England, Group A, World Cup 2015, Melbourne, February 14, 2015

February 13, 2015

Mumbai: IndiGo today said it was not in"talks" with any airline including Qatar Airways for a stake sale, a month after the gulf carrier's chief executive Akbar Al Baker expressed his desire to invest in the Indian company.

"Indigo is not even in talks with Qatar...the question does not arise. It’s kind of them (Qatar) to say that...

February 13, 2015

WASHINGTON D.C. - Some 200,000 Obamacare enrollees are about to be kicked off their insurance policies after they failed to confirm that they are legally living in the United States administration officials announced Thursday. Under the health law, people enrolled in exchange policies must be able to prove legal status.

February 13, 2015

Bengaluru: Many casualties are feared after multiple coaches of the Bangalore-Ernakulam Intercity Express train derailed and the engine caught fire in the early hours of Friday morning.

According to television news reports, the coaches of the trail derailed at Anekal between Bangalore and Hosur. The accident reportedly took place around 7:30 am.

February 13, 2015

Beijing: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Beijing visit, China on Thursday softened its stand on India's bid for a permanent membership in United Nation's Security Council.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) during a meeting in New Delhi

February 12, 2015

Costco and American Express will end their exclusive merchant agreement, the credit card issuer announced Thursday morning.

A customer packs groceries into his car outside of a Costco store on March 6, 2014, in Richmond, Calif.

February 12, 2015

Before this century ends, the Southwest and Central Plains states are likely to shrivel under a decades-long mega drought worse than those that ended the Ancestral Pueblo civilization in the last millennia, a new study finds.

A dry reservoir bed near San Jose, California, January 21, 2014.

February 12, 2015

Online retailers like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Lenskart have come in states' line of fire with some of them urging Union finance minister Arun Jaitley to impose higher taxes to discourage web-based shopping that takes place cutting across state borders.