Dhoni has returned to the top five in the latest rankings following his consistent performance with the bat in the recently-concluded series against Pakistan. ...
06:55 PM, Jan 07, 2013
A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison for insulting the country's ruler on Twitter, a lawyer following the case said, as the Gulf Arab state cracks down on criticism of the authorities on social media. ...
10:50 PM, Jan 06, 2013
North India is still caught in the grip of the harsh cold wave which claimed 11 more lives in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, taking this winter's death toll to 140. ...
06:34 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Four persons were killed and 10 more seriously injured when unidentified gunmen fired at an Express train in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. ...
01:59 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Actor-director Dustin Hoffman quips winning an Oscar is equivalent to having sex. ...
04:49 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Male vendors won't be allowed to sell their wares in the ladies compartments of local trains, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said on Tuesday. He was speaking to reporters at the Churchgate station here after a surprise visit to the bustling terminus to review women commuters' security during the evening peak hours. ...
07:45 PM, Jan 01, 2013
The driver of a firm associated with liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 31, 2012
An Indian man hailing from Andhra Pradesh, who used to run a liquor store in the US, was found dead at the shop under suspicious circumstances following which the police opened a homicide investigation. ...
10:35 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Sunando Sen, the 46-year-old Indian immigrant who died after being pushed in front of a subway train here by a woman, will be cremated on Monday by his friends. Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao expressed her condolences on the death of Sen on micro-blogging site Twitter, describing it as a senseless and foul murder. ...
04:59 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Security forces have busted a Naxal training camp following an encounter with the ultras during a search operation conducted in Jappemarka forests in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a top police official said on Sunday. A couple of detonators, battery, wire, Maoist literature, ration, medicines in large quantity and other naxal-related materials, besides books, stationery items and stitching machines were recovered from the camping site, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range)...
08:48 PM, Dec 30, 2012
A 31-year-old woman suspected of shoving an Indian immigrant in front of a subway train has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime after she told the police that she hated Hindus and Muslims since 9/11. Prosecutors Saturday identified the woman, who allegedly shoved India-born Sunando Sen of Queens, in front of a subway train Thursday as Erika Menendez of Bronx. ...
06:14 PM, Dec 30, 2012
NIA on Saturday made its first arrest in connection with Maharashtra's 2006 Malegaon bombing after the role of right-wing groups came to the fore with the nabbing of Swami Aseemanand in 2011. ...
06:03 PM, Dec 29, 2012
According to the latest health update by the Singapore hospital treating the Delhi gangrape survivor, the 23-year-old has suffered significant brain injury and is struggling against odds for survival. The medical bulletin issued by Mount Elizabeth Hospital at 11.00 am read, "The patient continues to remain in an extremely critical condition. She is still receiving treatment at... Intensive Care Unit. Our medical team's investigations upon her arrival at the hospital...
11:08 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Anger and outrage in the city against the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl has caused the civic agency-run primary schools in New Delhi to announce that girl students and woman teachers would be trained to defend themselves. ...
02:01 AM, Dec 27, 2012
China on December 26 opened the world's longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China. The opening of the 2,298 kilometer (1,428 mile)-line was commemorated by the 9 am departure of a train from Beijing for Guangzhou. Another train left Guangzhou for Beijing an hour later. ...
07:08 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Scientists have created the first ever map of how the brain organises the thousands of images that come flooding in through our eyes every day. ...
12:14 PM, Dec 26, 2012
China on Wednesday inaugurated world's longest high-speed rail route linking its capital Beijing with the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, covering a distance of 2,298 kms. ...
08:16 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Winter has set in across the north and the cold wave has intensified, claiming five more lives in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 11 in just three days. Temperatures have dropped to 2 degrees Celsius in some areas of Uttar Pradesh. ...
06:21 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Captain Eoin Morgan's blitzkrieg (49 off 26 balls) helped England chase down India's imposing total of 177. ...
10:21 PM, Dec 22, 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
