Bangalore: Rahul Dravid is expected to call time on a 17-year international career on Friday. The BCCI on Thursday sent out an email to the media announcing that Dravid and board president N Srinivisan will address a press conference in Bangalore, Dravid’s home city. The news comes on the back of a poor Test series in Australia, in which Dravid scored 194 runs in eight innings. Prior to that, however,...
03:43 PM, May 01, 2008
James Anderson and Graeme Swann were all praise for each other and team England in the recent ICC award function. ...
01:23 AM, Feb 29, 2008
Chester-le-Street: Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath will replace Sachin Tendulkar in the remaining four one day internationals (ODI) against England after the maestro was ruled out of the ongoing series because of his toe injury. Badrinath, who made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in 2008, has scored 79 runs in seven one-dayers so far. He was also in the squad for India's tour of West Indies earlier this year,...
12:40 AM, Feb 27, 2008
New Delhi: Former Indian cricket captains Kapil Dev and Mohammad Azharuddin on Tuesday favoured the BCCI becoming a National Sports Federation and falling under the purview of the RTI Act, as proposed in the National Sports (Development) Bill. The Bill will come up for discussion in the Cabinet on Tuesday and after getting the clearance, it is expected to be introduced in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. BCCI, which...
11:29 PM, Feb 25, 2008
New Delhi: Half-centuries from VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid helped India extend their lead to 240 at the close of day four of the second Test in Barbados on a day in which the going was slow. It was a tricky day for India, needing to fully establish themselves before pushing on with thoughts of a victory while for the hosts the going was tough with the conditions not offering...
08:43 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Lahore: Within months of announcing his retirement citing death threats from match-fixers, Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has reversed his decision, claiming that the situation has changed. Zulqarnain, who returned home after fleeing the team hotel in Dubai last November to London, told the media that he had taken the decision to come out of retirement in national interest and he was now available for all cricket. "I have reversed my...
02:46 PM, Jan 24, 2008
Phillips Talbot has seen India change since 1939. ...
03:00 PM, Nov 04, 2007
Images of freedom struggle are mounted on 12 rail coaches of the train. ...
03:38 PM, Oct 31, 2007
It was more than just a 16th century mosque instead it was a symbol of Indian secularism. ...
02:47 PM, Aug 09, 2007
In London, 500 lucky fans got their first peek into the book with author J K Rowling. ...
03:53 AM, Jul 22, 2007
15 children get cameras to capture the lives of child prostitutes, industry workers and six-year-old housewives. ...
06:27 PM, Jun 16, 2007
If fate would have had it differently, Amitabh Bachchan would not have existed, he would have been Inquilab Bachchan. ...
08:28 PM, Apr 29, 2007
The Government wants to include chapters of Hinduism and other religions in history books for middle class students. ...
05:31 PM, Jan 10, 2007
Under the project govt school teachers will visit 41,000 villages of Rajasthan and compile history of each village. ...
09:45 PM, Jan 05, 2007
The project would include writing and sometimes rewriting the history of Rajasthan's 41,000 villages and 186 towns. ...
10:38 PM, Jan 03, 2007
The Rajasthan government now wants to document the state's history and in the process run for Guinness record. ...
02:04 PM, Jan 02, 2007
Soon, it may become mandatory for a passenger to disclose his or her medical history to book a plane ticket. ...
11:11 AM, Dec 28, 2006
The Jallianwalah Bagh massacre of 1919 will now be taught in British schools as a history unit. ...
02:25 PM, Dec 27, 2006
Britain’s History Curriculum Association has also objected to stating "Churchill's view of Gandhi as a 'half-naked fakir." ...
01:00 PM, Dec 27, 2006
Macaca, used by Sen Allen to describe a Democrat of Indian descent, was voted politically incorrect word of 2007. ...
02:00 PM, Dec 16, 2006
