Saina enters Australian Open final
June 28, 2014
Sixth-seeded Saina prevailed 21-19 16-21 21-15 over China’s Shixian Wang in a marathon match, which lasted an hour and 16 minutes.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal stunned world number two and top seed Chinese Shixian Wang in a three-game semi-final contest of the Star Australian Super Series in Sydney on Saturday.
‘India’s economic reforms will create ripple effect in Asia’
June 27, 2014
Article in state-run Chinese daily says healthy competition between regional powers in Asia will promote continuous integration among Asian economies and form global economic engine
2014 FIFA WC: USA 0-1 Germany: Muller makes the difference for...
June 27, 2014
USA progressed to the knockout stages of the World Cup despite going down 1-0 to Germany on Thursday.
TCS’ women employees set to top 100,000
June26, 2014
Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services should soon become the first private sector company in India to employ more than 100,000 women.
According to the company’s 2013-14 annual report, it had 98,122 permanent women employees in its 300,464-strong workforce.
Delhi court summons Sonia, Rahul in National Herald case
June 26, 2014
A Delhi court has summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders as accused in National Herald newspaper case filed on charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference in New Delhi.
Naidu vows to make farmers free of debt
June 25, 2014
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that he was committed to take farmers out of debt trap by waiving loans and promised a separate budget up to Rs. 4,000 crore for agriculture to make it profitable.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu speaking in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Earth size white dwarf star found in space
June 25, 2014
A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cold that its carbon has crystallized, forming, in effect, an earth-sized diamond in space.
Air India joins Star Alliance
June 25, 2014
Air India users will have a wider reach because Alliance members operate 21,900 flights daily to 195 countries
Ending a seven-year-long wait, the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB), at its meeting in London on Monday, gave an endorsement vote to induct Air India into the fold.
Swiss denial of black money list a setback, but we won’t...
June 25, 2014
‘As of now, even if a team is sent there, we can’t do anything’
Justice M.B. Shah
New evidence shows particle found in 2012 is the Higgs boson
June 24, 2014
There is a strong indication that the particle discovered in 2012 is the Higgs boson.
picture released by CERN in 2012 showing the birth of the ‘God particle’
