JUNE 14, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 347 for 6 (Dhawan 107, Vijay 105, Ahmadzai 2-32) v Afghanistan
June 14, 2018: India v Afghanistan, Only Test, Bengaluru, 1st day Before their historic inaugural Test, the Afghanistan players were presented commemorative caps - BCCI
BENGALURU - It didn’t look like Afghanistan were going to have a pleasant initiation for a large part of their...
JUNE 14, 2018
It's yet another proud moment for India and it doubles in scale as the Dhivya Suryadevara has become the first woman Chief Financial Officer of the biggest auto company, General Motors. Known as a financial wizard, Dhivya Suryadevara will succeed Chuck Stevens on September 1.
Dhivya Suryadevara will be following the footsteps of Mary Barra who broke the glass ceiling when...
JUNE 14, 2018
India today described as "fallacious, tendentious and motivated" a UN report that tears into both India and Pakistan for human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. In the report, the UN body has laid out recommendations for both countries and very controversially asked India to "respect the self-determination of the people of Kashmir".
The...
JUNE 13, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 218 for 7 (Morgan 69, Root 50) beat Australia 214 (Maxwell 62, Plunkett 3-42 Moeen 3-43) by three wicket
Moeen Ali made quick inroads into Australia - Getty Images
They were handing out sandpaper boundary placards on the way up from Vauxhall Tube Station, but in the end, nothing could smooth away the rough edges in...
JUNE 13, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves a press conference at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump falsely declared victory after his meeting with North Korea's leader and twisted history in celebrating Tuesday's summit with Kim Jong Un.
A look at some of...
JUNE 13, 2018
Chess champion Soumya Swaminathan of India is seen in a photo posted to her Facebook page. - Soumya Swaminathan/FACEBOOK
NEW DELHI -- A female Indian chess player said Wednesday she has decided to not participate in an Asian championship being held in Iran next month because she could not comply with an Iranian rule requiring women participants to...
JUNE 13, 2018
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un participate in a signing ceremony during a meeting on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. - AP Photo/Evan Vucci
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - U.S. President Donald Trump agreed that denuclearization of the Korean peninsula would require a step-by-step approach and made a number of other...
JUNE 12, 2018
Paves way for virtual ID to replace Aadhaar number in e-KYC process for SIMs - ens economic bureau
The Department of Telecommunications has removed Aadhaar number as one of the 29 parameters required to be included by telecom companies in their databases of mobile subscribers. This paves the way for use of virtual ID, which can be used...
JUNE 12, 2018
NEW DELHI - A sudden haze descended upon Delhi and its neighboring areas on Tuesday as the air quality plummeted into the severely polluted category, bringing back memories of November when the city’s air reached dangerous levels of pollution.
Tuesday’s pollution was driven by dust particles classified as PM10, which are roughly a fifth of the width of...
JUNE 12, 2018
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, along with the Mumbai Congress Chief Sanjay Nirupam addressed almost 15,000 booth-level workers as a part Project Shakti today in Mumbai.
Project Shakti is Nirupam's brainchild which aims at empowering the ground-level workers and facilitating two-way communication between the party workers and the central leadership.
Ekalavya cut off his right thumb because his Guru demanded...
