Yearly Archives: 2015

November 25, 2015

New Delhi: When Australia and New Zealand players step out at the Adelaide Oval in the afternoon of 27 November to play the first ever Day-Night Test match with pink kookaburra, there will be another little first that will be associated with the 'Game of Glorious Uncertainties'.

November 25, 2015

CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU – Chennai has seen nearly four floods in the last 30 years, yet the city found itself ill-prepared for the recent rains that started on November 8. The heavy downpour that began two days before Diwali inundated large parts of Tamil Nadu, particularly the coastal districts of Cuddalore, Kancheepuram, Chennai and Tiruvallur.

November 25, 2015

Kurdish security forces in a tunnel complex under the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq that were used by Islamic State fighters to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes before the town was retaken from the militants. (Source: AP)

November 25, 2015

The year 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest on record, the UN's weather agency said on Wednesday, a week ahead of a crucial climate change summit in Paris.

"2015 is likely to be the hottest year on record, with ocean surface temperatures at the highest level since measurements began," said Michel Jarraud, head of the World Meteorological Organization.

November 25, 2015

Chennai: Showers continued to lash parts of Tamil Nadu, including the state capital, as death toll in the rain-related incidents mounted to 176 on Wednesday, even as the weatherman has forecast more rains in the next 24 to 48 hours.

November 24, 2015

President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet "a stab in the back" carried out by the accomplices of terrorists, saying the incident would have serious consequences for Moscow's relations with Ankara.

November 24, 2015

Singapore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sought greater engagement of the diaspora in making the country strong, pointing to the large requirement of foreign direct investment and stating that his only task was development that wipes tears from the eyes of the poor.

November 24, 2015

New Delhi: A central team will visit Tamil Nadu on Thursday to make first-hand assessment of the damage caused by rain.

A team will also be sent to Andhra Pradesh as soon as its memorandum is received, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

November 24, 2015

NEW DELHI: Tearing into actor Aamir Khan for his comments on perceived "intolerance", Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Tuesday that his criticism at a public event in the presence of a union minister proved that there is free speech in India. She also called herself the living example of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tolerance.

November 23, 2015

U.S. politicians condemned Pfizer Inc's deal with Allergan Plc as a tax dodge on Monday, bringing another round of hand-wringing in Washington over the corporate tax code, though legislative action before 2017 is unlikely.

A woman passes by the Pfizer World Headquarters building in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 23, 2015.