July 8, 2015
AUSTRALIA – Marcus Stoinis, an allrounder playing for Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers in Australia's domestic circuit, matched a rare feat on Wednesday as he hit National Indigenous Squad's medium-pacer for six sixes in an over.
Australia’s Marcus Stoinis hits six sixes in an over© Getty Images
July 8, 2015
NEW DELHI – Last week, certain malicious revisions were made to Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page from an IP address that belonged to the state-run National Informatics Centre (NIC).
July 7, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.
July 7, 2015
I spent much of this spring obsessed with a question: Could the United States and Russia stumble into war, perhaps even nuclear war?
Results of survey on risks of war. (Jay Ulfelder)
July 7, 2015
NEW DELHI – An open war broke out in the BJP on Monday as Union Water Resources Minister and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti fired a barrage of accusations at Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over discrepancies in the Vyapam scam . She feared for her own life, she said. Over 40 deaths have been linked to the scam so far.
July 6, 2015
LONDON – The Indo-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis stormed into the women's doubles quarter-finals at the Wimbledon Championships on Friday by beating the 16th-seeded Spanish team of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-4, 6-3 in just 66 minutes.
July 6, 2015
Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space: alien microscopic life.
An image taken by Rosetta's Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows part of the lander, in a photo released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on November 13, 2014
July 6, 2015
NEW DELHI: With an eye on boosting strategic, economic and energy ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel from July 6 to 13 to five Central Asian countries as well as Russia where he will attend the summits of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
July 6, 2015
ATHENS — Greek voters on Sunday gave their government a desperately needed victory in its showdown with European creditors as the country decisively rejected a bailout proposal that officials here had scorned as “blackmail.”
July 5, 2015
MADHYA PRADESH – There is something really sinister and rotten in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Nearly 50 persons connected to an ongoing probe into a mammoth scam have died, half of them under suspicious circumstances.
