The University of Kansas men’s basketball team squeaked by Ohio State late Saturday night, setting up an an NCAA tournament championship showdown with top-seeded Kentucky. Hours earlier, Kentucky defeated Louisville in its own semifinal. The Wildcats and the Jayhawks will play Monday night for the title at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Both teams [...]
Arsene Wenger accused his Arsenal players of a lack of commitment Wenger’s side came into the game on the back of a run of seven successive Premier League victories and had a chance to consolidate their position in third place. Instead, the loss meant they failed to extend their three-point lead over fourth-placed Tottenham, who [...]
Of the world’s libraries, the most famous is perhaps the Library of Alexandria. It had the world’s knowledge under its roof in all possible languages in which written material was available during those times. It ceased to be in an ‘accidental’ fire. The librarians went to book fairs as far as Rome and Rhodes to [...]
Kawhmu: Voters in Myanmar flocked to the polls on Sunday for elections expected to sweep opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for the first time as part of dramatic political reforms. A victory for Suu Kyi would cap a remarkable transformation for the icon, who spent most of the past 22 years locked [...]
YALA: A series of car bombs killed 13 people and injured more than 500 in the deadliest attacks to hit the insurgency-torn far south of Thailand in recent years, officials said on Sunday. In an apparent escalation of their tactics, suspected militants on Saturday attacked a hotel in Hat Yai, the largest city in southern [...]
NEW DELHI: A top UN official called on India on Friday to investigate allegations of rampant extrajudicial killings and abolish a sweeping law that allows security forces to shoot on sight. Christof Heyns, a UN Special Rapporteur, issued the call after travelling for 12 days through insurgency-hit Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, as well [...]
Manish Chand New Delhi: Amid differing perceptions, India played a crucial role in shaping the collective stance of the BRICS countries on the need for dialogue to resolve the festering crisis in West Asia and to push continued regional and international cooperation in stabilising Afghanistan. The Delhi Declaration at the end of the fourth BRICS [...]
Featuring works by Alok Bal, Avijit Dutta, Binoy Verghese, Birendra Pani, Chandra Bhattacharya, Dileep Sharma, George Martin PJ, Pratul Dash, R Balasubramaniam,Sudhanshu Sutar, Swaroop Mukherji. The exhibition titled Angkor Wat: An Indian Perspective will begin on April 4. The exhibition consists of paintings by 11 young artists inspired by the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia. [...]
Hot and spicy chicken preparation Noor Jafri Ingredients Chicken cut – 500 gms Hung curd – 2 tbsp Kothmeer – 2 big bunches Garlic – One whole Green chillies – 4 to 6 Red chilli flakes – 1 tsp Lemon Juice – half tsp Turmeric powder – half tsp Oil – 2 to 3 tbsp [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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