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.
May 30, 2013
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The game to oust N Srinivasan from the pinnacle of Indian cricket seemed to have entered the death overs on Wednesday, with powerful politicians like Sharad Pawar and the government openly asking for his resignation.
May 30, 2013
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: India's top security brass has claimed that the Obama administration came up with an executive order that resembles India's cyber security initiatives after it had failed to get the Cyber Security Bill approved in the US Senate.
May 30, 2013
BEIJING: Even as the official media here charged Japan with attempting to "encircle" China by courting India and neighboring countries, Beijing on Thursday reacted cautiously to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Tokyo hoping India-Japan ties could be conducive to regional peace.
