AUGUST 12, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 396 for 7 decl (Woakes 137*, Bairstow 93, Pandya 3-66, Shami 3-96) beat India 107 (Ashwin 29, Anderson 5-20) and 130 (Ashwin 33*, Anderson 4-23, Broad 4-44) by an innings and 159 runs
August 12, 2018: England v India, 2nd Test, Lord's Cheteshwar Pujara had resisted best, but Stuart Broad broke through with one of...
AUGUST 12, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks that could see it becoming a significant investor in Tesla as part of Elon Musk’s plan to take the electric car maker private, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fund’s plans.
The Public Investment Fund, which has built up a stake just shy of 5 percent in...
AUGUST 12, 2018
Mr. Naipaul in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. - Sara Krulwich/NY Times
LONDON - V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more than a dozen unsparing novels and as many works...
AUGUST 12, 2018
The constituencies of Leavers Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have changed sides to back remain, polling shows. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Major new analysis shows most constituencies now have majority who want to Remain
LONDON - More than 100 Westminster constituencies that voted to leave the EU have now switched their support to Remain, according to a stark new analysis...
AUGUST 11,2018
Viktor and Amalija Knavs, the parents of first lady Melania Trump, listen as their attorney Michael Wildes makes a statement on Thursday in New York, after they were sworn in as U.S. citizens. - Seth Wenig/AP/
First lady Melania Trump’s immigration attorney is criticizing the president’s hostility toward “chain migration” — a process by which U.S. citizens or permanent residents...
AUGUST 11, 2018
Children prepare to hack mock versions of state election websites at DEF CON on Friday. (Photo by Donie O'Sullivan/CNN)
As hackers sit down to break into dozens of voting machines here in Las Vegas this weekend, some state and local election officials that have flown in to witness the spectacle at one of the world's largest hacking...
AUGUST 11, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 357 for 6 (Woakes 120*, Bairstow 93, Shami 3-74) lead India 107 by 250 runs
Jonny Bairstow congratulates Chris Woakes on reaching a half-century – Getty Images
The third day nearly produced 90 overs, and India nearly came back into the game, but the honours belonged, literally, to Chris Woakes. With his unbeaten 120, Woakes became...
AUGUST 11, 2018
Following heavy discharge of more than one lakh cusecs of Cauvery water by Karnataka, eight districts of Tamil Nadu, including Nilgiris where all the major and minor dams are full, have been put on flood alert.
The regional meteorological centre in Chennai has also warned of heavy rains in western Tamil Nadu.
“So far more than ten people have...
AUGUST 10, 2018
Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday termed the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam an important step in controlling the number of illegal immigrants in India, warning that if they are allowed to stay on, they would make 10 more Kashmir-like problems for the country.
Talking to the media during sidelines of a programme in Rohtak, Ramdev claimed...
AUGUST 10, 2018
States have been asked to accept driving licence, registration certificate or other documents in 'electronic form' presented through DigiLocker or mParivahan platforms, the government said today.
It also said that impounding of documents will be reflected electronically through 'eChallan' system.
"The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued an advisory to states to accept Driving Licence, Registration...
