June 2, 2013
CHENNAI: Bowing to all-round pressure, N Srinivasan on Sunday agreed to "step aside" as BCCI president under a compromise formula that brought back former chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member "interim arrangement" to run the Board, more than a fortnight after the spot-fixing scandal rocked cricketing world.
June 2, 2013
NEW DELHI: India has asked the US to "temporarily" hand over LeT terrorist David Headley for a year and extradite his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to get more information about the conspiracy hatched to carry out Mumbai terror attacks.
June 2, 2013
NEW DELHI: Government's efforts to promote India as an investment destination does not seem to be yielding fruits as FDI inflows registered 38 per cent decline to $22.42 billion in 2012-13 compared to the previous year.
June 2, 2013
WASHINGTON: The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level talks on how to set standards of behavior for cyber security and commercial espionage, the first diplomatic effort to defuse the tensions over what the United States says is a daily barrage of computer break-ins and theft of corporate and government secrets.
June 1, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 337 for 5 (Kohli 144, Karthik 106*) beat Sri Lanka 333 for 3 (Dilshan 84, Kusal Perera 82) by five wickets
Virat Kohli (Left) and Dinesh Karthik (Right) raise their bats after scoring a century, India v Sri Lanka, Champions Trophy 2013 warm-up matches, Cardiff, June 1
June 1, 2013
SINGAPORE: US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday accused China of waging cyber espionage against the United States, stepping up pressure on Beijing over the issue ahead of a key summit between their leaders.
June 1, 2013
KOLKATA: In what is likely a global first, inhabitants of 11 Lakshadweep islands have decided to stop using diesel and turn to coconuts for meeting their frugal power needs.
June 1, 2013
ISLAMABAD: Fourteen years after his last stint as a parliamentarian, Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif on Saturday returned to Pakistan's National Assembly, taking oath with other lawmakers in the first democratic transition of power in the country's 66-year history.
June 1, 2013
SINGAPORE: The US military will devote more air power, ground troops and high-tech weaponry to the Asia-Pacific region as it moves ahead with a strategic rebalance, the US defense chief said on Saturday in a speech that accused China of cyber incursions.
June 1, 2013
BANGALORE: Something that he hasn't imagined in his "wildest dreams", N R Narayana Murthy on Saturday described his "second innings" at Infosys as an exciting yet "somewhat" a new challenge.
