January 4, 2013
SYDNEY: Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath was on Friday inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame, making him its 68th male member.
Australian Paceman: Glen McGrath
McGrath was formally inducted during the lunch interval of the ongoing third Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Sydney.
January 4, 3013
New Delhi: The “U.S. treasury bonds” with a face value of $5 billion seized by Income-Tax officials from a businessman in Tirupur district are most likely fake since the U.S. Treasury Department has largely dispensed with issuing paper T-bills and has certainly not issued any with a denomination as high as $1 billion.
January 4, 2013
SHIMLA: A private professional university setting up its campus in Himachal Pradesh has been accused of violating environmental laws and now faces action, an official said here Thursday.
January 4, 2013
ISLAMABAD: After focusing on the perceived danger from India for decades, the Pakistan army has made a paradigm shift by describing homegrown militant groups and internal dangers as the biggest threat to the country's security in its new military doctrine.
January 4, 2013
NEW DELHI: In a gross violation of its own rules, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has senior management pilots from airlines working for it as seconded flight operations inspectors (FOIs).
Indian aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
January 4, 2013
Former Indian and Pakistani criketeers felicitated at Eden Gardens, Kolkatta
January 3, 2013
India claims it did not export large amounts of counterfeit medicine to Africa. An article claims malaria drugs, antibiotics and contraceptives were all identified as fake.
"No fake medicines have been sent from India to the continent of Africa," a spokesman for the ministry of external affairs in Delhi said.
January 3, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Pakistan 250 (Jamshed 106, Hafeez 76, Ishant 3-34, Jadeja 3-41) beat India 165 (Dhoni 54*, Ajmal 3-20, Junaid 3-39) by 85 runs
Pakistan defeated India by 85 runs in Kolkata to take an assailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series
January 3, 2013
Washington — Even as the Indian Science Congress began in Kolkata, a leading Indian-American scientist raised several questions about the direction of Indian scientific research, saying the diaspora can play an important role in promotion of science and technology in the country.
January 3, 2013
India's Supreme Court has said that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing "havoc" in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests. Low costs, weak laws and inadequate enforcement and penalties have made India an attractive destination for the tests, activists say.
