June 1, 2013
NEW DELHI: A day after two of its senior functionaries called it quits, the crisis-hit BCCI's vice-president Arun Jaitley said the next 24 hours could bring about a "significant" development in the unfolding drama.
Major announcement soon, says Arun Jaitley
May 31, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama today said the American economy is starting to pick up steam with the creation of some seven million jobs in the past 38 months.
May 31, 2013
LONDON: A Sikh man has for the first time become the mayor of the town of Warwick in England's West Midlands region.
Prabhjit Singh Dhillon, who has been elected the 280th mayor of Warwick, described it as a "privilege", the Coventry Telegraph reported Friday.
"I have become the 280th mayor, a privilege for a local Warwick boy and first Sikh since that time," Dhillon, a former local schoolboy, was quoted as saying.
May 31, 2013
NEW DELHI: Two top BCCI officials, secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke, on Friday quit from their respective posts in a bid to put pressure on beleaguered cricket board president N Srinivasan in the wake of the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.
Ajay Shirke stepped down as BCCI treasurer.
May 31, 2013
NEW DELHI: The asteroid that is going to zip past the Earth at nearly 6 million kilometers away tonight is not travelling alone. NASA scientists tracking the asteroid with the giant Deep Space Network antenna in California have discovered that the asteroid has a small satellite or moon.
May 31, 2013
The Little Master said he was shocked and angry over recent reports on the spot-fixing saga in IPL
May 31, 2013
Washington: Arvind Mahankali from New York has scripted history by winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the year 2013, becoming the sixth Indian-American to win the title in a row.
May 31, 2013
LOS ANGELES: Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported on Thursday.
Handout NASA photograph shows a radiation assessment detector prior to installation on Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover.
May 30, 2013
LONDON: Rudyard Kipling, India-born famed author of 'The Jungle Book', in a letter has admitted to plagiarizing some of his best known works, including parts of the iconic children's book.
May 30, 2013
The treaty will help both the countries in expedited extradition of fugitives and further strengthen the relationship between law enforcement agencies.
