August 3, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 167 for 3 (Rahane 50, Jadeja 48*) beat Zimbabwe 163 (Williams 51, Mishra 6-48) by seven wickets
Amit Mishra picked up a career-best 6 for 48 to rout Zimbabwe for 163. His 18 wickets for the series equalled the record for the most successful haul by a bowler in a bilateral ODI series
August 3, 2013
Friendship Day, celebrated in India on the first Sunday in August, is an odd event. Its history suggests it was made up for commercial or promotional purposes.
August 3, 2013
NEW DELHI: Hit by yet another suicide bomb attack on its mission in Jalalabad, India on Saturday said "terror machines" that operate from "beyond the borders" was the main threat to the security of Afghanistan and refused to be deterred from its commitment to assist the war-torn country.
August 3, 2013
WASHINGTON: The New York Times Company announced on Saturday that it has agreed to sell The Boston Globe newspaper for $70 million cash to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
The Times, the premier US newspaper, is selling The Globe for a fraction of the $1.1 billion it paid for the Boston newspaper in 1993.
August 2, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee fell to a record closing low on Friday, posting its worst week in 22 months, raising concerns the RBI is losing the battle to prop up the currency while the government has yet to take any meaningful measures to bring in inflows.
August 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: US embassies that would normally be open this Sunday - including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo - will be closed that day because of unspecified security concerns, the US State Department said on Thursday.
CBS News reported that the embassy closings were tied to US intelligence about an al-Qaida plot against US diplomatic posts in the Middle East and other Muslim countries. CBS said the intelligence did not mention a specific location.
August 2, 2013
NEW DELHI: N Srinivasan's desperate bid to return as BCCI president was thwarted with the under-fire bard deciding to call off its working committee meeting here on Friday fearing legal trouble after the Bombay High Court declared its IPL spot-fixing probe "illegal and unconstitutional".
August 2, 2013
ISLAMABAD: US secretary of state John Kerry told Pakistanis on Thursday that Washington planned to end drone strikes in their country soon - a message aimed at removing a major source of anti-American resentment in the strategically important country.
August 1, 2013
LONDON: A controversial US surveillance programme that sweeps internet usage data had 700 snooping servers installed at 150 locations around the world, including one in India, according to a report.
August 1, 2013
NEW DELHI: State-run fuel retailers on Wednesday announced they would raise the price of petrol by 70 paise and diesel by 50 paise a litre, both excluding local taxes.
The revised prices will come into effect from Wednesday midnight. The actual increase at petrol pumps will be a tad higher due to the incremental increase in state levies.
