Yearly Archives: 2015

October 15, 2015

London: Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns approached current skipper Brendon McCullum with a "business proposition" about match-fixing, McCullum told a London court on Thursday.

October 15, 2015

Washington: The US went soft on Pakistan's nuclear smuggling efforts during former President Ronald Reagan's administration, fearing that any action would upset their bilateral ties at a critical time of the Afghan war, according to new declassified documents.

October 14, 2015

Bengaluru: Eminent author Shashi Deshpande on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident was "far too weak."

October 14, 2015

China has hit back at the US in a row over marine territorial claims.

Chinese dredging vessels purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a US surveillance aircraft on 21 May 2015© Reuters

October 14, 2015

Brief Scorecard: India 247 for 9 (Dhoni 92*, Rahane 51, Steyn 3-49) beat South Africa 225 (du Plessis 51, Axar 3-39, Bhuvneshwar 3-41) by 22 runs

MS Dhoni launched four sixes in his 92, India v South Africa, 2nd ODI, Indore, October 14, 2015

October 14, 2015

Mumbai: Growth in wealth creation by the middle class in India is higher than its pace globally, but lags far behind the scorching pace of growth in middle class wealth in China.

October 13, 2015

NEVADA, LAS VEGAS: Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would support a proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana, saying he wanted to reduce the number of people sent to jail for drug use or minor possession.

October 13, 2015

HARYANA – A day after the video of Haryana Minister Krishan Kumar Bedi “mocking” at Prime Minister Narendra Modi went viral, BJP’s Haryana unit president Subhash Barala had called him for a meeting on Tuesday.

The video was shot when Bedi was attending a cleanliness drive in Fatehabad as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

October 13, 2015

Earth's gravitational pull is massaging the moon, opening up faults in the lunar crust, researchers say.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images (LROC) revealed thousands of lobate fault scarps on the moon, including this prominent one in the Vitello Cluster. Image released Sept. 15, 2015.

October 13, 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" along with that of institutions like the Sahitya Akademi is permitting a new "degree of thuggish violence" in India, celebrated Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie said, referring to a raging debate over the 'rising intolerance' in the country.