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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 24, 2014
The Hague – US President Barack Obama gathered his allies in The Hague on Monday to hammer out a response to Russia's lightning annexation of Crimea, as Ukraine pulled its last troops from the peninsula.
G7 leaders meet at the official residence of the Dutch prime minister in The Hague on March 24, 2014
March 24, 2014
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 170 for 6 (Duminy 86*, Amla 41, Anderson 2-28, Southee 2-46) beat New Zealand 168 for 8 (Taylor 62, Williamson 51, Steyn 4-17) by 2 runs
Dale Steyn goes berserk after a sensational victory, New Zealand v South Africa, World T20, Group 1, Chittagong, March 24, 2014
