August 25, 2013
NEW YORK: World number one Serena Williams would become the oldest US Open women's champion in the Open era if she defends her crown in the Flushing Meadows fortnight that begins Monday.
If Williams wins the final she would pass Australian Margaret Court to become the oldest US Open women's winner.
August 24, 2013
WASHINGTON: Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, officials say, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how — and if — the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case will be allowed to live as a female behind bars.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: The falling rupee has thrown a googly at the Indian Premier League ( IPL), with team owners having to pay a higher fee to their foreign players with whom they have dollar contracts till the end of this season while local players have been left sulking since they wouldn't reap the benefit as their fees are fixed at 46 to a dollar.
August 24, 2013
MUMBAI: India is fast emerging as a talent hotspot for the global cyber-crime industry amid slow hiring in the traditional software industry, the lure of easy money, and lack of law enforcement, according to computer security experts.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Government is in talks with the private sector on the issue of providing reservation in jobs, but wants to do it in an "amicable way", social justice minister Kumari Selja said on Saturday.
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appeared to rule out early Lok Sabha polls, saying "our aim is to go till the very end".
August 24, 2013
NEW DELHI: Several US-based technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo, not only helped the National Security Agency in spying on their users but were also paid millions of dollars by the US government for their efforts.
August 24, 2013
Turning down an RTI appeal, the PMO said that releasing secret files about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's widow Emilie Schenkl and daughter Anita Bose may upset relations with foreign countries
August 23, 2013
Sushil Kumar said he was offered a few crores to throw the 66kg-category 2010 final in Moscow
New Delhi: India's two-time Olympic medal-winning wrestler Sushil Kumar told an Indian newspaper on Friday that he was offered money to lose a world championship title bout in 2010 in Moscow.
August 23, 2013
NEW DELHI: Out of favor Yuvraj Singh, hero of the 2011 cricket World Cup, said on Friday he was not thinking too much about the 2015 World Cup and was doing everything possible to regain his place in the Indian team.
The southpaw said he was not looking at the 2015 World Cup and his immediate goal was to get back in the team.
