January 8, 2013
LONDON: England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen has named old foe Yuvraj Singh as India's 'danger man' in the forthcoming one-day series.
It will be Yuvraj's powerful batting which Pietersen fears the most in the forthcoming ODI series.
January 8, 2013
Washington — With the India-US civil nuclear deal removing the biggest obstacle in their relationship, a US think tank has said their concerted cooperation could help India's global rise and provide a rich opportunity for US businesses.
January 8, 2013
Kolkata — India needs to strengthen its translational research sector to become one of the five global scientific powers by 2020, eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here Monday.
January 8, 2013
An argument over a restaurant bill sparked a riot between Hindus and Muslims that killed four people and left close to 200 injured. A customer allegedly gathered 50 people from his community and assaulted the restaurant owner, which set off the fighting.
January 7, 2013
Indian women hope that the debate sparked by a recent brutal gang rape will lead to changing attitudes. Women in India constantly live in fear that they could be sexually abused.
January 7, 2013
Google executive chairman and ex-New Mexico Gov. Richardson arrive in North Korea
January 7, 2013
Melbourne Stars captain, Shane Warne and Renegades batsman Marlon Samuels, face severe disciplinary action over their fiery exchange during the Big Bash League at the MCG.
All fired up: Shane Warne remonstrates with Marlon Samuels. Photo: Getty Images
January 7, 2013
The New Delhi gang-rape victim's identity has been revealed by her father who told a British newspaper that her name should be made public "to give courage to other women." Indian law forbids the naming of victims of sexual offences to shield them from social stigma.
January 7, 2013
Alien planets born in widely separated two-star systems face a grave danger of being booted into interstellar space, a new study suggests.
The widest binaries and triple systems have very elongated orbits, so the stars spend most of their time far apart. But once in every orbital revolution they are at their closest approach.
January 6, 2013
New Delhi — Business confidence in India worsened during the October-December quarter, due to high interest rates and infrastructure bottlenecks, a survey by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has revealed.
The CII's quarterly Business Confidence Index dropped below the 50-point-mark during the third quarter of the current financial year, reflecting a continuing deterioration in the macro economic scenario.
