The world number one meets France's Paul-Henri Mathieu in the final game of the day session on Rod Laver Arena. ...
09:12 PM, Jan 13, 2013
The double Olympic gold medallist and three-time 'FIH Player of the Year' award winner feels that Indian youngsters will gain vital exposure due to this league. ...
08:03 PM, Jan 12, 2013
The north east club finished fifth last term but are down in 15th this season and have been shipping goals. ...
08:52 AM, Jan 12, 2013
EU's competition commissioner intends to prevent Google from allegedly distorting choices for consumers and taking business from rivals. ...
02:57 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The European Commission (EC) will provide 42 million euros (around $55 million) in humanitarian aid to Pakistan for 2013, a media report said Friday. The aid was announced in Brussels Thursday, as part of a 661 million euros assistance the EC has allocated for 2013, the Dawn reported. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Emerging markets ended 2012 with a modest acceleration in economic growth thanks to a pick-up in manufacturing activity that hints at further improvement in coming months, a survey found on January 10. All four big BRIC economies posted a rise in economic activity in the last quarter of 2012, with Chinese manufacturing returning to growth for the first time in 18 months, according to HSBC's emerging markets index (EMI). ...
12:07 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Shares in Oil & Natural Gas Corp rose as much as 3.6 per cent on January 10 as part of a rally across oil companies after the oil ministry moved a proposal to raise diesel prices to the federal cabinet. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday favoured phased rationalisation of energy prices to bring it in line with global levels and curbing energy subsidies to achieve the targeted rapid, inclusive and sustained growth. He said the central and state governments must work together to create awareness among the public on the need for 'curbing' energy subsidies. ...
12:12 AM, Jan 08, 2013
UEFA said the Italian hosts had been charged over racist chanting by their fans, missile-throwing and also because their team arrived late. ...
08:06 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The Chandigarh golfer had a good year in 2012 as he clinched his fourth European Tour title at the Scottish Open. ...
06:19 PM, Jan 07, 2013
As the fable goes, in the summer when the ants were busy gathering food, grasshoppers lived a carefree life. Come winter, the ants lived off their store, while the grasshoppers were left starving. It appears that this lesson was eventually learnt by humans, who shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The wisdom of ants that they borrowed did not end here but helped to lay the foundation of economics...
04:57 PM, Jan 07, 2013
A man was arrested for allegedly passing lewd remarks at a young woman who was waiting for her husband at a bus stop in central Delhi today, police said. ...
08:10 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Delhi Metro will soon have a working women's hostel for its staff staying alone in the capital, a move that comes in the backdrop of the brutal gangrape and assault of a 23-year-old paramedical student. The new age transport system has also cancelled the annual celebrations at the Metro Museum and other events relating to the New Year in view of recent incidents in the city. ...
07:29 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Amid turbulent times for the stock markets across the world, the equity turnover fell on Indian bourses as well in 2012, but the fall was meagre at 1.57 per cent when compared to the global average. Globally, the equity turnover fell sharply by 14.7 per cent, while the fall was nearly 8 per cent for the bourses in Asia Pacific region as well. ...
02:11 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Diesel prices may be hiked by Rs 10 per litre over a 10-month period and kerosene rates increased by same quantum over the next two years if a proposal of the Oil Ministry is accepted. The price hike is being considered as the government scrambles to find ways to meet an unprecedented Rs 160,000 crore deficit expected this fiscal on selling diesel, cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene below their production...
04:32 PM, Dec 27, 2012
In a shrill attack on the Centre, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on December 27 accused it of an "unholy nexus" with the erstwhile Left Front government of West Bengal, leaving the state in a "disastrous" financial situation with a debt burden of Rs 2 lakh crore, and warned that patience was running out. ...
03:35 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Judicial reforms were the flavour of the year as the government focused its efforts on bringing a bill on judicial accountability and kept up its plans to change the present system of appointment of judges where the executive has little say. In March, the Lok Sabha passed an ambitious bill to lay judicial standards but despite two sessions of Parliament the bill could not be brought in the Rajya Sabha....
12:52 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Over a year after two youngsters were allegedly killed in Andheri while trying to protect their woman companions, the first witness in the Reuben and Keenan murder case will depose in a court on Thursday. Avinash Solanki, who is the complainant and also an eyewitness in the case, will depose in the court. ...
09:58 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Global entrepreneurship summit, an annual conclave of IIT Kharagpur, will be held at its campus from January 11 to 13. ...
01:46 AM, Dec 27, 2012
At least 83 people have died in Ukraine from a cold spell that has been gripping the country, BBC reported. Temperatures as low as minus 23 degrees Celsius and heavy snowfall this month have left the capital Kiev and most of the country under a thick frozen layer. ...
02:06 PM, Dec 22, 2012
