Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced the state will host the World Chess Championship this November between reigning champion from India Viswanathan Anand and the challenger Norway's Magnus Carlsen. Making the announcement in the assembly, Jayalalithaa said: "Considering that Tamil Nadu had come forward to hold the 2012 World Chess Championship, the World Chess Federation (WCF) had requested us to hold the contest this year in...
02:04 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: It's World Health Day on Sunday and the focus is on one of the biggest killers of this century. High blood pressure which affects one in three adults globally and 214 million Indians are projected to by hypertensive by 2030. 9.4 million Indians die due to hypertension every year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Nearly a third of young Indians - 33 per cent of men...
08:42 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Hello and welcome to worldview with me Suhasini Haider, tonight she is back from the stars and after her second stint at the international space station. Astronaut Sunita Williams is our special guest ahead on our show, also our continuing focus on Pakistan elections, today a startling new survey, how the youth will vote. Our guest Wajahat Khan, a journalist in Islamabad, but we begin in the Korean peninsula, where ...
11:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Zurich: FIFA security director Ralf Mutschke believes the 500 plus qualifying matches so far for the 2014 World Cup have been clean of match-fixing. Mutschke tells the Associated Press " we don't have any leads that any match has been thrown." The full program of about 820 preliminary matches ends in November. Speaking on the sidelines of a FIFA-sponsored conference on match-fixing and betting, Mutschke says "we are also confident...
11:47 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: In preparation for the FIH World League Round 3 to be held at Rotterdam, Netherlands from June 13 to 23, the training camp of the India's senior men's hockey core probables will commence at Netaji Subhas Southern Centre (NSSC), Bangalore from April 6 and continue till April 26. India qualified for the FIH World League in February this year by winning all the matches of Hero Hockey World...
05:56 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian shooting team's campaign in the ISSF Changwon World Cup started on a sour note with all the shooters, including Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, failing to make a mark on the first day of the event in Changwon, Korea on Thursday. Competing in the men's 10-metre air rifle event, Beijing Games gold medal winner Bindra, London Olympian Sanjeep Rajput and Chain Singh -- all failed to...
05:49 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Beijing: Chinese scientists have developed the world's lightest substance - carbon aerogel - with a density only one sixth of that of the air. Scientists at Zhejiang University produced the solid material which has a density of only 0.16 mg/cubic centimetre, breaking the previous record of the world's lightest material held by graphite aerogel. The graphite aerogel was developed by German scientists last year with a density of 0.18 mg/cubic...
10:32 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Gold extended losses to hit its lowest level in ten months on global cues, attracting bargain hunters in the wedding season. ...
05:16 PM, Apr 03, 2013
FIFA surprisingly opted for GoalControl as their goal-line technology system to be used at next year's World Cup in Brazil. ...
09:06 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell has been forced to withdraw from his first meeting since last year's Olympic final because of a hamstring injury, Athletics Australia said on Tuesday. ...
12:42 PM, Apr 02, 2013
New York City will on Monday begin the mammoth task of sifting through the debris of buildings on the World Trade Center site to find more remains of the 9/11 terrorist attack victims that will allow more number of them to be identified. ...
05:44 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Actor Brad Pitt says that his upcoming zombie film 'World War Z', which will release this summer, has ended up becoming "too political". ...
03:31 PM, Mar 31, 2013
'Material Girl' Madonna has become a member of billion dollar club thanks to a very successful MDNA world tour. ...
04:55 PM, Mar 29, 2013
World View - Pakistan Election Hello and welcome to world view with me Suhasini Haider. Tonight, Pakistan's election season has kicked off; we'll be discussing what's next in the run up to May 11th. From Islamabad, the central information advisor of Imran Khan's PTI party Shafqat Mehmood and Moeed Yusuf, Political Analyst at the US institute of peace. He is Lahore right on a study. Later in the Show the ...
03:23 PM, Mar 29, 2013
England have been reported to world governing body FIFA after racist abuse was heard from visiting fans at last week's World Cup qualifier in San Marino. ...
09:27 AM, Mar 29, 2013
The number of victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has climbed up a notch to 557,478. According to a new report, the number is 15,000 more than the previously recorded figure. The total number of the explosion-affected people or "hibakusha" from the Second World War atomic bombing by the US is more than 15,000 people recorded in the previous file, according to research conducted...
05:48 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Also, Mahan doesn't believe Tiger Woods has to win a major to validate his return to No. 1 in the world. ...
10:46 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Suarez, who has scored eight goals in the qualifying campaign, picked up a second booking during the 2-0 loss to Chile. ...
09:09 AM, Mar 28, 2013
