Holi was being celebrated all across India. A festival that has a cultural heritage and spontaneity that cuts across every Indian irrespective of their background; ...
02:08 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career is on its last legs, if they haven't folded already. Those on the inside track say he was to announce his ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: It was a day of candid revelations on Saturday as former captain of the Indian cricket team, Bishan Singh Bedi spoke his mind and said it was time for both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and maestro Sachin Tendulkar to have a relook at their career graph. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Bedi said that it was time for Indian Test cricket to get a new captain. Here...
08:59 AM, Feb 26, 2012
"The team will not seem the same without him. His contribution goes far beyond his batting statistics. The example he sets in every respect and ...
01:31 PM, Feb 23, 2012
After a disappointing run on the Australia tour, the spotlight is on the continuing poor form of 'seniors' Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. ...
10:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting does not expect to be picked again for Australia's ODI team. ...
09:53 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Now that Ricky Ponting has admitted that he does not expect to be picked for Australia's one-day team again after being dropped for the upcoming ...
09:26 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Army will issue the retirement note about his tenure ending on May 31, 2012 to General VK Singh next week. The Army has decided to send the notice after the Army Chief withdrew his petition over the age controversy from the Supreme Court. With an official communication to the Army Chief about his retirement, the Defence Ministry will announce his successor soon. The Defence Ministry has shortlisted...
08:20 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Santiago: Fernando Gonzalez of Chile is set to retire after the Masters tournament next month in Florida. The 31-year-old Gonzalez, who reached No. 5 in the ATP rankings, made the announcement at an emotional news conference on Thursday. He said he no longer had the energy to play at the top level after having been bothered by back, knee and hip injuries for several years. Gonzalez won 11 ATP events...
02:51 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Sao Paulo: Former Brazil leftback Roberto Carlos says he will retire from football by the end of the year. The 38-year-old Roberto Carlos has a contract with Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala until 2013, but said he will stop playing either in June or in December of 2012 and will instead focus solely on his coaching role. He told Brazil's GloboEsporte.com on Monday that he intends to continue "helping" the Russian...
04:12 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Speculating! That's what an Indian cricket fan is engaged in these days. Compiling statistics after every loss and correlating them to frame a winning picture ...
03:09 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Dharamsala: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has accepted the Dalai Lama's desire to be relieved of his political duties and agreed to amend its Charter for the purpose but has proposed that he should continue as the 'symbolic head' of the Tibetan government. Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Samthong Rimpoche told the Tibetan Parliament here on the last day of its Budget session on Friday that the House has...
06:10 PM, Mar 25, 2011
Dharamsala: The Dalai Lama has conveyed his "clear no" to the resolution of Tibetan parliament in exile, asking the spiritual leader to reconsider his retirement plan. "His Holiness said in his address during teaching that he has no intention of backing down. He is the only person to decide and any decision will only be his," Joint Secretary at the Dalai Lama's office Tenzin Taklha, said. Earlier a resolution was...
06:36 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Puducherry: A Congress Minister in Puducherry on Thursday said he would not contest the April 13 assembly polls and has also decided to retire from active politics. Talking to PTI here, Malladi Krishna Rao who represents the lone segment of Yanam, an enclave of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh, said he had written to AICC leader Sonia Gandhi on January 28 about not contesting the polls and withdrawing from politics. He...
01:50 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Dalai Lama, 76, says he will formally propose to Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile that necessary amendments be made to reflect his decision. ...
10:23 AM, Mar 10, 2011
Jammu: An IPS officer has been forcefully retired by the Jammu and Kashmir government for allegedly fudging his date of birth, officials said here on Saturday. The state government forcefully retired IG Security Farooq Ahmed on Friday after a panel, probing cases of senior police officers involved in fudging of birth certificates, has found that he had tampered with his date of birth to extend his services in the department,...
01:17 PM, Feb 19, 2011
Paris: The French Senate has finally passed the ambitious pension reforms bill, which will raise retirement age from 60 to 62. The bill now goes to the lower house for approval on Wednesday. However, there is still no sign of the anti-reforms strike ending. The protests have taken a huge toll on the citizens with trains running late, schools closed and tonnes of rubbish piling up on the streets. Fire...
11:00 PM, Oct 26, 2010
Paris: Fanny Cottard didn't go to school on Tuesday. Instead, she and 50 high school classmates joined more than a million protesters on the streets of France, fighting government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 and make other changes to the pension system. She's only 16, so retirement might seem a long way off to her, but that's not how she sees it. "It's about us...
10:43 AM, Oct 20, 2010
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has hinted at retirement, saying he was unlikely to join a new cabinet, and said Rahul Gandhi could become prime minister. Mukherjee, a heavyweight in government decision-making, spoke of retirement at a time when the country is trying to balance policies toward double-digit growth, stubbornly high inflation and removing poverty. "My goodness! What would be my age? I am already 75. There is a...
06:31 PM, Oct 18, 2010
