2nd Test: Vijay, Pujara deny SA pacers as India enjoy upper...
December 27, 2013
India 181 for 1 (Vijay 91*, Pujara 58*) v South Africa
Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay leave the field as bad light stops play during the first day of the second Test against South Africa in Durban on December 26, 2013.
McDonald’s closes employee website amid criticism
December 27, 2013
ILLINOIS: McDonald's Corp has shut down a website intended to provide employees with work and life guidance after it generated negative publicity for the fast-food company.
West Indies beat Kiwis by 2 wickets in 1st ODI
Decemebr 26, 2013
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 157 for 8 (Sammy 43*, McClenaghan 5-58)New Zealand 156 (Brendon McCullum 51, Nathan McCullum 47, Bravo 4-44)
Darren Sammy's aggressive cameo proved the difference between the two teams
SIT dismisses Zakia’s petition as a ‘piece of wastepaper’
December 26, 2013
After a four-year probe, the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team gave the Gujarat Chief Minister a clean chit in February 2012.
AAP all set to take the reins
December 26, 2013
700 litres of free water within 24 hours of swearing-in on Saturday
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal with Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas.
Tirumala teems with pilgrims on Christmas day
December 26, 2013
TIRUMALA: On Christmas Day, thousands jostled for space in serpentine queues more than a kilometre long for darshan of Lord Venkateswara even as authorities on the seven hills barred the aged from offering prayers and cancelled normal sevas to deal with the biggest turnout on a single day in recent years.
Preet Bharara’s activism in Devyani’s maid case even riles US judge
December 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Devyani Khobragade case has put the spotlight on US attorney Preet Bharara in a way that his other famous case against Rajat Gupta failed to do. Last week, Bharara's long press release on the case against Khobragade set teeth on edge in staid South Block, to the extent that the foreign ministry went out of its way to issue a rebuttal.
India: Price rise has hit school fees the most since 2004
December 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: The fact that inflation has been an area of concern for some years now is well known, but exactly what goods and services have seen prices rise most sharply? School fees, a CSO study shows, have seen the most dramatic spike over the tenure of the UPA, up 433% between March 2004 and March 2013.
South African Legend Jacques Kallis to retire from Test cricket after...
December 25, 2013
DURBAN: Jaques Kallis, one of the greatest all rounders of the game, on Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket.
Jacques Kallis has called time on a career that has lasted almost 18 years
Breaching the Vienna Conventions
December 25, 2013
Every Indian diplomat in the U.S. has told the same lie, because none of them can afford to pay the local minimum wage when their own pay, even with the foreign allowance, is barely more than that
Satyabrata Pal, a former High Commissioner to Pakistan, is a Member of the National Human Rights Commission.
