May 25, 2013
MUMBAI: Claiming that he has no knowledge of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan's involvement in betting, BCCI chief N Srinivasan on Saturday said there will be no discrimination and action will be taken against him with the "same alacrity" with which steps were taken against players.
May 24, 2013
RIYADH: India will issue at least 27,000 more emergency certificates to enable its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia for home after a new labour policy came into force in the Gulf Kingdom.
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Friday left for Saudi Arabia on the invitation of his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud Al-Faisal.
May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON: The United States Senate on Thursday voted 97-0 to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the prestigious US Court of Appeals in the capital, the highest judicial appointment achieved by an Indian-American, and a precursor to his widely forecast elevation to the US Supreme Court before the end of President Obama's second term.
May 24, 2013
Mumbai Police on Friday indicated it would not extend the deadline for Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan to appear before it for questioning in the IPL betting scandal, saying “he has been asked to present himself by 5 pm today“.
May 24, 2013
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a proposal by the Department of AIDS Control for the implementation of the National AIDS Control Support Project (NACSP) at a cost of Rs. 2,550 crore.
May 24, 2013
Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving the longstanding problem of twin prime conjecture.
There has been a breakthrough in number theory, with Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang coming up with a result that is seen as a step towards solving the twin prime conjecture, a longstanding problem in mathematics.
May 23, 2013
The latest in a string of recent cricket-related police inquiries has Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf under investigation in Mumbai for spot-fixing. Amid media reports of the investigation, Rauf has been booted out of next month’s Champions Trophy in England.
May 23, 2013
Her inventive, carefully-crafted and hard to categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world
London: American author Lydia Davis was declared the winner of the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
May 23, 2013
Exposure in the womb to chemicals like Bisphenol-A (BPA) and Diethylstilbestrol (DES) can increase an offspring''s risk of breast cancer
May 23, 2013
An Indian man bathes as a woman prepares to wash clothes at a lake on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
