March 16, 2013
IPOH (Malaysia): A controversial penalty stroke enabled Malaysia to hold India to a 2-2 draw in the final round-robin match of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament on Saturday.
A controversial penalty-stroke decision with 50 seconds left on the clock helped Malaysia force a 2-2 draw against India.
March 16, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 283 for 0 (Dhawan 185*, Vijay 83*) trail Australia 408 (Starc 99, Smith 92, Cowan 86, Warner 71, Ishant 3-72, Jadeja 3-77) by 125 runs
Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay gave India a solid platform
March 16, 2013
New Delhi — Three leading Muslim groups are against the government decision to lower the age for consensual sex, saying it will be a blow to family and social values.
Some of the groups are asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw the proposal.
The Jamaat Islami Hind, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and the Muslim Majlis Mushwarat, an apex body of Muslim social and religious groups, said the move will have "dangerous consequences" for the society.
March 16, 2013
NEW DELHI: A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said Saturday. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.
March 16, 2013
India is angry over a resolution adopted by Pakistan's National Assembly condemning the execution of a Kashmiri man, who was convicted in the 2001 attack on India's Parliament. Indian parliament passed its own resolution calling upon the Pakistani assembly not to support "extremist and terrorist elements."
March 15, 2013
BEIJING: China's legislature elected Li Keqiang as premier on Friday, installing an English-speaking bureaucrat as the man in charge of the economy, the world's second-largest, and its aim of reviving growth through consumer-led expansion.
March 15, 2013
Bhubaneswar — Raghunath Mohanty, Odisha's minister for housing and urban development, Friday resigned after his daughter-in-law accused him of torturing her for dowry.
March 15, 2013
India's army chief has said that he opposes the idea of ending tough emergency laws in Kashmir and the northeast. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act was introduced in 1990 in Indian Kashmir to give the army and paramilitary forces sweeping powers to detain people, use deadly force and destroy property.
March 15, 2013
NEW DELHI: India is downgrading its diplomatic ties with Italy and has asked its ambassador-designate to that country Basant Kumar Gupta, who was scheduled to leave for Rome on Friday, not to proceed to take up his posting.
March 15, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Australia 273 for 7 (Cowan 86, Warner 71, Smith 58*, Jadeja 3-56) v India
Ed Cowan and David Warner provided a strong start but India hit back after lunch
