Ustad Amjad Ali Khan wants to promote peace through music
March 26, 2014
NEW YORK: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan says he is pleased that India now has a growing number of young musicians and artists who are extremely talented in playing classical instruments like the sarod, tabla and sitar.
Cricket: The only Parsi to be in Pakistan Test squad passes...
March 26, 2014
KARACHI: Rusi Dinshaw, the only Parsi to have ever been selected in a Pakistan Test squad, has passed away quietly and his death in tragic circumstances has brought into sharp focus the failure of the PCB to look after its former players.
A peek into the life Atal Bihari Vajpayee now leads
March 26, 2014
NEW DELHI: Less than a five-minute drive from the Ashoka Road headquarters of BJP, where the old guard is losing ground to the new, Atal Bihari Vajpayee sits quietly in a wheelchair in his SPG-guarded Krishna Menon Marg bungalow watching snatches of television and reading newspaper headlines.
Two policemen killed in Taliban attack on Kabul election office
March 26, 2014
KABUL: Taliban militants staged a gun and suicide attack on an Afghan election commission office in Kabul on Tuesday, killing two police officers, with less than a fortnight to go before the presidential poll.
The insurgents have vowed a campaign of violence to disrupt the ballot on April 5, urging their fighters to attack polling staff, voters and security forces in the runup to Election Day.
Malaysian plane mystery: Satellite clue ends wild theories, hope for MH370
March 26, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR: Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.
IPL fixing scandal: SC asks Srinivasan to step down for fair...
March 25, 2014
NEW DELHI: In a major setback to N Srinivasan, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the BCCI president must step down if fair probe is to be done into betting and spot-fixing charges in IPL.
Rupee up 23 paise against dollar in early trade
March 25, 2014
MUMBAI: Extending its rising streak, the rupee opened 23 paise up to trade at 60.54 against the US dollar today on heavy capital inflows.
Dealers said sustained selling of the American currency by banks and exporters also supported the rupee but a lower opening of the domestic equity market and dollar's rise against other currencies overseas, limited the gains.
Viswanathan Anand on the cusp of redemption in Russia
March 25, 2014
PUNE: "I didn't manage to understand either him or me! I was simply unable to execute my strategy."
Viswanathan Anand has not overstretched his positions but whenever he has got the opportunity to attack, he has not gone into his shell.
Flight MH370: Malaysia says jet crashed in Indian Ocean; China wants...
March 25, 2014
China has demanded proof and distraught relatives have reacted with shock and anger after Malaysia announced it now believed missing flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors.
China has repeatedly pressed the airline and the Malaysian government to give more information to family members.
Whispers, secrets and lies? Anonymity apps rise
March 24, 2014
NEW YORK: At a time when Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are pushing people to put forward their most polished, put-together selves, a new class of mobile applications aims for a bit more honesty.
