An Indian doctor and his wife have pleaded guilty to charges of federal tax evasion and to illegally distributing weight loss medicines to patients, agreeing to pay nearly USD 5.2 million in restitution. Rakesh Anand, 57, a licensed physician in Indiana and Illinois and Meena Anand, 53, entered their guilty pleas on January 8 before US District Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen in federal court in Hammond. ...
01:19 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Indianapolis: Splintered beams and boards on a piece of charred earth were all that remained on Sunday where three Indianapolis homes were leveled in a blast that killed two people and rendered homes for blocks uninhabitable. A backhoe raked through the rubble in the middle-class subdivision as clusters of firefighters and rescue workers weary from a long, chaotic day that began late the night before waited for their next assignment....
06:38 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Indianapolis: An Indiana father watching television with his children was accidentally shot to death by his 3-year-old son after the boy found a loaded handgun nearby, police said on Saturday. Michael Payless, 33, was found dead in the southern Indiana town of Salem on Friday night. Payless was watching television with two of his children when the other child, a 3-year-old boy, found the gun. "The child accidentally discharged the...
05:51 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Washington: Millions of people across the eastern United States baked in record heat on Saturday after deadly thunderstorms downed powerlines from Indiana to Maryland, killing at least 12 people and leaving over 3 million homes and businesses without power. Emergencies were declared in Washington DC, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia because of damage from overnight storms, which unleashed hurricane-force winds across a 500-mile (800-km) stretch of the mid-Atlantic region. President...
12:31 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Washington: An American brewery company has apologised for naming a beer after Hindu goddess Kali and said it is currently scrambling to rename the product, amidst protest in the Indian parliament. The 'Kali Ma' beer which was scheduled for launch on Tuesday has now been postponed till the Portland-based company Burnside Brewing Co finds a new name to it. "In response to pleas from the Hindu community we have decided...
08:25 PM, May 15, 2012
Washington: A woman in the US state of Indiana sent her gay son to school with a stun-gun to counter students bullying him. Chelisa Grimes did it after administrators apparently didn't do enough to stop the bullying against her son. The mother says she will do it again - even though the teen now faces expulsion, CNN reported on Monday. "I do not promote violence - not at all -...
09:24 AM, May 08, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Indianapolis: Powerful tornadoes ripped through the US midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison and tossed around vehicles across the region. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another 12 in neighbouring Kentucky and two more in Ohio from storms that battered a band of states from Ohio to Alabama, officials said. "We are no...
11:51 AM, Mar 03, 2012
In a freak accident in the US, three freight trains crashed in Northwest Indiana on Friday. One of them was ferrying highly flammable material. The accident occured when one of the trains rear-ended another that had stopped on the tracks for unknown reasons. The crash triggered an explosion. Firefighters struggled to control the blaze. No casualties were reported. ...
10:39 AM, Jan 07, 2012
The tweet asked people about their fav ads that featured in Doordarshan. ...
10:01 AM, Feb 03, 2010
The robbers shot Gurpreet Singh, 26, after a brief scuffle at a convenience store. ...
01:14 PM, Jun 21, 2009
Lahore: With the under-19 cricket World Cup just over a month away, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked former Test skipper Javed Miandad to guide the country's younger lot during their conditioning camp here. "Javed is not appointed as batting consultant, but he has been asked to work with the under-19 players before they leave for Australia," one of the sources in the PCB said. He added that Miandad has...
12:39 AM, Jun 07, 2008
Dubai: India remained fourth even as England took an outright lead as the number one team in the latest ICC Test Championship table after claiming the three-match Test series against the West Indies 2-0. England (117) now lead second-placed South Africa (116) by one ratings point, while Australia are placed at No. 3 with 112 points and India are down at number four with 111 points. If England had managed...
12:08 AM, May 31, 2008
Hello and welcome once again to DRS, my own personal space where I discuss matters cricket on Cricketnext.com. Let's talk today about an interesting comparison between the two geniuses of our time – Sachin Tendulkar, the first international batsman to score a hundred international centuries, and Vishwanathan Anand, now a five-time world chess champion. Clearly these two individuals are the biggest achievers, in a sense, of our times when it ...
12:01 PM, May 30, 2008
Bangalore: Keeping his cards close to the chest, Mumbai Indians' coach Shaun Pollock on Sunday said his team certainly has a plan for RCB's batting line-up but hopes Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers do not fire against them in Monday's encounter. We will be in trouble if we made our strategy against RCB public. Obviously, we have a strategy against RCB that we would like to keep within the ...
06:50 PM, May 22, 2008
Some may say he has been hot and cold this IPL season. Some might call him a touch inconsistent. Some will stop just short of saying he is the best finishers in the limited-overs game. But the truth of the matter is that on his day, Abraham Benjamin de Villiers can set a cricket field on fire like no one else. And those who need to record testimonies can ring ...
12:49 PM, May 20, 2008
Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians go head to head in the Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. After a not-so-convincing start to their campaigns, both the teams have improved a bit of late, but a lot more is needed for both to feel secure about their play-offs qualification, more so in Chennai's case. This will be the second time this season that both the teams are...
06:29 PM, May 19, 2008
Wellington: A broken bone in his left forearm forced New Zealand captain Ross Taylor out of action on the last day of the final Test against South Africa. Taylor was on 18 on Monday when he was struck by a rising ball from Morne Morkel and rushed to hospital. An x-ray confirmed that Ross Taylor has a fracture of the ulna bone of his left forearm, New Zealand Cricket's medical...
08:12 AM, May 07, 2008
Islamabad: The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board says he is in talks with couple of other countries if Bangladesh does not tour next month. Zaka Ashraf says he doesn't want to disclose which cricket boards they are and will wait until Bangladesh make a decision. Bangladesh's cricket board has submitted a security report on Pakistan to its government after its president Mustafa Kamal led a nine-member delegation to the ...
01:40 AM, May 07, 2008
