Yearly Archives: 2015

September 15, 2015

Washington: US President Barack Obama has determined India and its three neighbors, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, among a list of 22 nations that are major illicit drug producing or transit countries.

September 15, 2015

NEW DELHI – Amid reports of more hospitals denying admission to dengue patients coming in, the death toll due to the disease in the national capital has gone up to 11 on Tuesday.

In the latest incident, a 29-year-old woman succumbed to the disease shortly after getting admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in Delhi.

September 15, 2015

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given a go-ahead for the three-match Twenty20 series promoted by legendary duo of Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne in the United States of America.

Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne having a chat – Getty Images

September 15, 2015

Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday inaugurated five 'Pakistan-China Friendship Tunnels' built at the cost of about USD 275 million to restore a strategic road link to China via Gilgit-Baltistan.

The tunnels are part of a 24 kilometre realignment project which has been completed in collaboration with China in over three years.

September 15, 2015

The secret files related to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose reveal that there is no official proof about his alleged death in Taipei plane crash in 1945. In a letter to Netaji's family in 1949, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had said that he could still be alive and the Indian intelligence agencies also knew about this.

Septemebr 15, 2015

In a striking example of the law of unintended consequences, a popular automotive convenience feature, push-button start, can lead to accidental death from carbon-monoxide poisoning. A simple technical fix—an attention-grabbing warning audible from outside the car—could head off the problem before it happens.

September 14, 2015

Pakistan is insisting that India extend an invitation for a meeting between Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.

September 14, 2015

MUMBAI – Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur has taken his fight against N Srinivasan to a new level by questioning the audacity of the former president's valuation of Indian Premier League (IPL) team Chennai Super Kings.

September 14, 2015

Tamil Nadu – The ongoing probe into a multi-crore illegal mining scam in Tamil Nadu took a bizarre twist after M Sevakodiyan, a driver who worked with PRP Granites in Madurai district’s Keelavalavu village, reported witnessing a human sacrifice by the company officials ahead of major business decisions between 1999 to 2003.

September 14, 2015

NEW YORK – Thrilled to win a point in the US Open final, and bent on proving a point, Novak Djokovic leaped and roared and threw an uppercut, then glared at some of the thousands of spectators pulling for Roger Federer.