March 9, 2016
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Vijay Mallya over a banks consortium plea seeking to stop him from leaving the country.
Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines, which was grounded in 2012, owes dues of over `9,091 crore to the consortium of banks. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint
March 9, 2016
Karachi: Irked by Wasim Akram questioning Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) decision to form an inquiry committee on team's disastrous show in Asia Cup, influential board official Shakil Sheikh on Tuesday threatened to open old files related to legendary fast bowler's alleged involvement in match-fixing.
March 9, 2016
Amazon has started screening video clips in some of its warehouses showing how employees accused of stealing were caught and fired, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The news agency says the alleged offenders are represented by silhouettes and the words "arrested" and "terminated" are superimposed.
An Amazon spokesman had no comment.
March 9, 2016
WINDOR, CANADA – For years now, a low, rumbling hum has plagued the residents of Windsor, Ontario – just across the river from Detroit.
Background, March 2 in Detroit, Michigan. The Detroit River flows between the downtown area and Windsor, Canada
March 9, 2016
PALEMBANG, Indonesia — People gazed at the sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia on Wednesday, briefly plunging cities into darkness and startling wildlife.
March 9, 2016
WASHINGTON — An Islamic State detainee currently in American custody at a temporary detention facility in Erbil, Iraq, is a specialist in chemical weapons whom American military officials are questioning about the militant Sunni group’s plans to use the banned substances in Iraq and Syria, Defense officials said.
March 8, 2016
MIRPUR – Virat Kohli termed Mahendra Singh Dhoni the "best finisher in the world" after the India skipper made short work of Bangladesh with a flurry of sixes and boundaries in the final of the Asia Cup in Mirpur.
March 8, 2016
The UK today appointed veteran career diplomat Sir Dominic Asquith as its new High Commissioner to India.
The 59-year-old Asquith will take over from Sir James Bevan, who joined the UK's Environment Agency (EA) as chief executive last November, soon after Narendra Modi's first visit to the UK as Prime Minister.
March 8, 2016
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney delivered an impassioned speech last week blasting Donald Trump as a “fraud” who would hand the White House to Hillary Clinton.
Mitt Romney is interviewed ny Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network March 4, 2016.
March 8, 2016
It might be easy to be a woman today, in the 21st century, but it has not always been this way. There was a time when the word 'feminism' or ‘women empowerment’ wasn't even coined. There was a time, when women struggled to break society’s so-called ‘norms’ and achieve what they were truly born to be.
