New Delhi: India will take “every step” to protect its interests to resolve the situation arising out of deep incursion by Chinese troops into Indian territory in eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister A K Antony said today. “We are taking every action to protect our interest. … We will take every step to protect our interest,” [...]
Mohali: Two days ahead of Sachin Tendulkar’s 40th birthday, the legendary Adam Gilchrist recalled the veteran Indian’s match-winning innings that had knocked the stuffing out of the Australian bowlers way back in 1998 at Sharjah. Chasing a stiff target, Tendulkar single-handedly took India to title triumph by slamming a century on April 24, his birthday. [...]
Washington: All the eight Indians who participated in the ill-fated Boston Marathon escaped unhurt from the deadly twin blasts at the finish line with one hailed as a hero for acting as saviour to the victims. Dr. Vivek Shah, an Indian American orthopaedic surgeon at Boston’s New England Baptist Hospital, was 25 yards away from [...]
United Nations: India has made a strong case for reform of the UN Security Council, saying that while 80 more countries have joined the UN in the past 50 years the council has not undergone the slightest change, terming this an “unnatural situation of stagnation” in a dynamic international environment. Asoke Kumar Mukerji, India’s new [...]
Islamabad: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake today struck Iran–the strongest to hit the country in 40 years–killing 34 in a border region in Pakistan which bore the brunt and unleashed tremors in northwest India and Gulf Arab states. There was no official word on any casualties in Iran in the second powerful quake in a week. [...]
Moscow: World military expenditures totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, registering a decline of 0.5 percent in real terms year-on-year for the first time since 1998, according to data released by a Sweden-based security think-tank. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) attributed the fall to austerity policies implemented in the majority of developed countries due [...]
Washington: Noting that India is destined to be a close partner of the US, a top Pentagon official has said New Delhi wants to enhance military to military relationships through close technology cooperation and co-production. “India is, I think, destined to be a close partner of the United States. We just share so much in [...]
New Delhi: Terming business mood in the country as unduly pessimistic, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Indian economy is facing a temporary downturn and can return to 8 per cent growth path with speedy and decisive government action. Attributing the growth rate slipping to decade low of 5 per cent to global slowdown, [...]
Durban: In the first-high level contact after the leadership changes in China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Chinese President Xi Jinping and pledged to take the ties on a “higher growth trajectory”, even as he raised the issue of Beijing’s plan to build three dams on the Brahmaputra river. Singh called on Xi, 59, who [...]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said that diplomacy is at work resulting in Italy’s decision to send back two marines charged in the fishermen killing case and parried questions on Italian media reports that Congress President Sonia Gandhi influenced that government’s decision. Welcoming Italy’s decision to send back two marines, the minister [...]
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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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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