Word lovers rejoice as OK celebrates 175 years
March 22, 2014
WASHINGTON: Whatever you're doing this Sunday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?
Credit for finding its first use in print goes to Allen Walker Read, a Columbia University professor who died in 2002 after a lifetime interest in OK.
1984 anti-Sikh riots case: US court seeks copy of Sonia Gandhi’s...
March 22, 2014
JALANDHAR: A US court on Thursday asked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport by April 7 to establish she was not in the US from September 2 to September 9, 2013 as she had claimed in a declaration before it in a rights violation case.
Missing Malaysian jetliner: Australia widens search area as hunt ramps up
March 22, 2014
PERTH: Australian rescue officials broadened the search area for missing Malaysian Flight MH370 on Saturday and boosted the number of spotter planes in the Indian Ocean, with weather conditions favorable.
Indians are 2nd largest users of MIT-Harvard online courses
March 21, 2014
BANGALORE: Over 2.5 lakh Indians have registered for courses on edX, the massive open online course (Mooc) platform founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in May 2012 to host online university-level courses.
6.5-magnitude quake jolts Andaman and Nicobar islands, no tsunami threat
March 21, 2014
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar islands were jolted by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale this evening but chances of Tsunami are ruled out, the government said.
"An earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter scale occurred some 70 kms east of Indira Point at 7.11pm today.
World T20: India strangle Pakistan with spin in opening game
March 21, 2014
Brief Scorecard: India 131 for 3 (Kohli 36*, Raina 35*) beat Pakistan 130 for 7 (Umar Akmal 33, Mishra 2-22) by 7 wickets
Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli give themselves credit for a facile win, India v Pakistan, World T20, Group 2, Mirpur, March 21, 2014
Search for missing plane: Malaysia says ‘this is going to be...
March 21, 2014
PERTH: Spotter planes spent a second fruitless day scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean for wreckage from a Malaysian jet on Friday, as Chinese relatives of the missing passengers clashed with Malaysian officials.
Sania-Cara pair advances, Paes-Stepanek ousted from Sony Open
March 21, 2014
MIAMI: Sania Mirza and Cara Black fought their way into the second round even as Leander Paes made his third first round exit in five tournaments this year when he lost his opening round at the Sony Open with partner Radek Stepanek.
14 Indians jailed for rioting in Singapore
March 21, 2014
SINGAPORE: Fourteen Indians were on Thursday jailed for clashing with a group of people in Singapore's Little India, where the country's worst riot in 40 years broke out last year.
Eleven of them were sentenced to seven months in jail, and the remaining three will serve an additional week for stealing food and beer from supermarkets.
Putin’s sanctions on Americans unite Democrats, GOP
March 21, 2014
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin probably didn’t expect that newly announced Russian sanctions on nine Americans – three top White House aides, three Republicans and three Democrats in Congress – would spark a bipartisan love-in in Washington.
