Didn’t expect to see my name on top of a club, it felt different: Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar said he felt “very humbled” after the Mumbai Cricket Association on Monday formally renamed the Kandivili ground as the Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana Club. The 40-year-old who will be playing his 200th and last Test match in Mumbai from November 14 already has a stand named after him at the famous Wankhede Stadium. (All […]
India must boycott CHOGM: Tamil Nadu assembly
CHENNAI: Amidst large-scale protests across the state against external affairs minister Salman Khurshid participating in Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), slated to be held in Sri Lanka from November 15 to 17, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday moved a resolution in the assembly demanding that India boycott the summit. The special session of the assembly was […]
Story Behind a Stapled Chinese Visa
NEW DELHI — On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and Prime Minister Li Keqiang of China oversaw the signing of nine agreements on issues like river-sharing and cooperation against terrorism. The most notable among these was the Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, meant to calm down tensions along the disputed 3,380-kilometer (2,100-mile) Himalayan […]
Rising Despair as Officials Struggle to Get Aid to Victims
CEBU, the Philippines — An American aircraft carrier headed to the Philippines on Tuesday on an emergency mission to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan as the situation on the islands became increasingly desperate, with food and water supplies running low and bodies lying uncollected in the streets of at least one devastated city. Survivors of […]
Rohit Sharma slams century on debut as India take big lead against West Indies
Kolkata: Rohit Sharma stamped his class by hitting a sparkling century on debut as India recovered from a top-order collapse to take a firm grip of the first Test against the West Indies with a 120-run first-innings lead here on Thursday. (Match Scorecard | Highlights) Sharma stole the thunder with his unbeaten 127 as the hosts, who were […]
Umpiring blunder on Sachin Tendulkar angers Eden fans
Kolkata: If Twitteratis are to be believed, it will be a long shot for umpire Nigel Llong to get out of the country without facing irate fans of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar who was given out in a contentious decision on Thursday. A pindrop silence descended on the Eden as Llong raised his finger while […]
Suspected Baby/Grandma Killer Says He Was a Victim
By Indiawest An Andhra Pradesh software engineer who last October allegedly killed a 10-month baby girl and her grandmother in their King of Prussia, Pa., home, has fired his attorney and now says he was the victim of two assailants who actually committed the murders. Telugu native Raghunandan Yandamuri has been held without bail since […]
US will get surveillance right, John Kerry says
WARSAW: US secretary of state John Kerry is vowing that a review into NSA surveillanceactivities will ultimately result in the “right” balance between security and privacy and says outrage over alleged espionage and eavesdropping should not disrupt key trade talks between Europe and the United States. Speaking in Warsaw after talks with Poland’s foreign minister, Kerry said on Tuesday […]
Bangladesh court sentences 150 soldiers to death for 2009 mutiny
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Tuesday sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death during a mass verdict over a 2009 mutiny in which scores of top officers were massacred, a prosecutor said. A judge convicted and sentenced to death the soldiers over the mutiny in which 74 people including officers were hacked to death, tortured or burnt alive before their bodies […]
India a Hub for Patients From Afghanistan
NEW DELHI – Three years ago, the family of Rohullah Afzali, 23, a medical student at a university in Herat in western Afghanistan, noticed changes in his behavior. He was often brooding, anxious and sometimes angry. He would stay awake for three, even four nights on end. Doctors suspected he had a bipolar disorder and […]
India’s mission to Mars successfully completes first stage
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh: India’s first mission to Mars successfully completed its first stage on Tuesday, entering orbit around Earth 44 minutes after blast-off from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. (First pics) The launch rocket “has placed the Mars Orbiter spacecraft very precisely into an elliptical orbit around Earth,” the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation […]
Two days later, more bombs found at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan
Patna: Two days after a string of bombs exploded at Gandhi Maidan in Patna just before Narendra Modi’s massive rally, three more bombs have been found in the park, despite it being cordoned off for inspection by forensic and other experts. At least one of these bombs was very powerful, a senior policeman said. One bomb […]
The Curious Case of India and China
During his recent visit to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India said that when the two Asian giants shake hands, the world takes notice. Although the statement stands true, the real question to ask is whether the media and the security and diplomatic community in the two countries make much of this handshake. It […]
Undocumented SoCal Cabbie Released from ICE Custody
An undocumented Southern California taxi driver who was taken into ICE custody last April when he and his family went in for an interview so that he could receive a family-based visa, was released Oct. 9, but still faces imminent deportation. “I did not know I was going to be released. Satguru (God) did this […]
Councilman Harish Jajoo Honored
HOUSTON: Councilman Harish Jajoo was honored at the 2013 Statesman of the Year Banquet hosted by Texas Asian Republican Club (TARC) on Wednesday 23 October at Kim Son Restaurant, 10603 Bellaire Blvd., Houston. Councilman Jajoo represents District 4 on Sugar Land’s City Council. Now in his second term, Harish had rolled up his sleeves from […]
India vs Australia: Ishant Sharma works overtime with bowling coach in optional practice
Ranchi: Under-fire Indian pacer Ishant Sharma whose sloppy bowling cost India the third ODI against Australia today worked overtime with bowling coach Joe Dawes even as his teammates took a day’s break ahead of their fourth match here on Wednesday. Dawes was seen giving an extra attention to out-of-from Ishant who slogged it out for […]
Unnao treasure hunt yield so far: shards, bangles, brick wall
The search for gold in the 19th century Buxar fort in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh has so far yielded shards, broken glass bangles and hopscotch toys among other things, officials said on Monday. The Archeological Survey of India, which started digging for gold treasure on the basis of a dream by seer Shoban Sarkar […]
After Russia visit, PM eyes India-China border pact
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is leaving for Beijing on Tuesday morning on the second – and the challenging part of his two-nation visit – to seal a new border management pact and ask China to walk the talk on reducing the burgeoning trade deficit between the two countries. Singh’s visit is counted as historic because […]
India to launch Mars Orbiter Mission on November
CHENNAI: India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday. The launch, which was scheduled on October 28, got postponed because of a delay in one of the ships carrying radars for monitoring the rocket in reaching the […]
No Facebook! Bangalore schools ask students to delete profiles
Bangalore: If you’re a school kid in Bangalore, be prepared to confront the possibility of a life without Facebook. After banning logging onto social networks on campus, some schools have asked that Facebook accounts be deleted entirely by their students. Among them, prestigious and private schools like Delhi Public Shool, St John High School and Vidya […]
