July 28, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 187 for 3 (Kohli 68*) beat Zimbabwe 183 (Williams 45, Mishra 4-47) by seven wickets
Virat Kohli was among the runs again as India won a one-sided encounter
July 28, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama expressed concern in an interview published on Sunday over widening income inequality and an erosion in upward mobility that he said is leading to a fraying of American society.
July 28, 2013
KOLKATA: BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan seems set to return to the helm of affairs after a two-judge probe panel found no evidence against his team Chennai Super Kings in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal which rocked the sixth edition of the event.
IPL spot-fixing: Meiyappan, Kundra get clean chit
July 28, 2013
WASHINGTON: The controversy over Indian MPs' letters to President Barack Obama for denying visa to Narendra Modi has taken a new turn with a California-based forensic document examiner certifying that the signatures of the lawmakers are "original and authentic" and not a cut and paste job as claimed.
July 27, 2013
JAMMU: Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by targeting Indian posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district with RPGs and heavy machine guns on Saturday morning leading to heavy exchange of fire.
July 26, 2013
NEW YORK CITY: The dollar weakened slightly against the euro on Friday as traders awaited next week's Federal Reserve meeting hoping for clearer guidance on stimulus policy.
July 26, 2013
AHMEDABAD: Former Gujarat Ranji player Timil Patel has been appointed captain of US's national cricket team for a series against Canada for the Auty Cup. The tour started on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Amdavadi leg-spinner emigrated to the US with his family in 2010 after playing 38 first class games for Gujarat. He made his international debut for the US on November 14, 2012, against Canada in the previous edition of the Auty Cup played in Florida.
July 26, 2013
NEWARK (New Jersey): Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged in what's being called the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.
July 24, 2013
MUMBAI: US Vice-President Joe Biden on Wednesday said New Delhi should take fresh initiatives to help remove trade barriers and inconsistencies in tax regime and this could propel annual bilateral trade to $500 billion.
July 24, 2013
MANILA: Afghanistan's first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organizer, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday singled out Afghanistan's Habiba Sarabi, a 57-year-old doctor, for her "bold exercise of leadership to build up a functioning provincial government against great odds."
