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Returning to the court after more than a month, India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal will have to get into rhythm quickly when she begins her campaign in the World Badminton Championship starting in London on Monday. The 21-year-old, who reached the quarterfinals in the last two editions of the mega-event, has been troubled by an [...]
In an apparent snub to the BCCI, veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced retirement from One-Day and Twenty20 cricket after the England tour in dramatic circumstances hours after he was named in the squad for the ODI series and one-off T20 International. Dravid, who on Saturday made a surprise comeback into India’s limited-overs squad for [...]
Almost 10 years after the 9/11 terror strike, al Qaeda mastermind and world’s most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces after being hounded in a special operation in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Bin Laden, 54, is dead and his body is in US custody, President Barack Obama announced at half past 11 [...]
India overcame some anxious moments before suppressing a spirited the Netherlands with a nervy five-wicket victory in a World Cup Group-B match and virtually secure a quarter-final berth in New Delhi on Wednesday. After restricting the minnows to a modest 189, the fancied hosts started off with a flourish but lost wickets in a heap [...]
Electing to bat, The Netherlands were all out for 189 in 46.4 overs against India in their group B World Cup match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Wednesday. Brief Scores: The Netherlands: 189 all out in 46.4 overs. (Peter Borren 38, Tom Cooper 29; Zaheer Khan 3/20, Yuvraj Singh 2/43). India [...]
Amitabh Bachchan is a bearded Superman and Shah Rukh wears the red and blue costume of Spider Man. The two Bollywood stars are not part of a new superhero flick, instead these ‘avatars’ are the imagination of an Italian pop artist. The Bollywood toys, a trio of Amitabh, Shah Rukh and Anil Kapoor, by David [...]
We want you to know little facts about life – do you know that only half a percent of husband actually go a little long, long way in their marriage relationship! Reasons are seemingly many and the most challenged husband or the happiest person sometimes comes across entangling with severe hardships in life encountering their [...]
Domestic passenger car sales rose by 22.63 percent to 1,89,008 units in February, 2011, from 1,54,132 units in the same month last year. Figures released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Wednesday also show that motorcycle sales in the country grew by 20.8 percent during the month to 7,76,051 units from 6,42,419 [...]
New Zealand crushed Pakistan on Tuesday in a ruthless display dominated by century-maker Ross Taylor as injury-jinxed England lost key paceman Stuart Broad for the rest of the World Cup. Taylor, celebrating his 27th birthday, scored 131 runs off just 124 balls with eight fours and seven sixes, to take New Zealand to 302 for [...]
BANGALORE: Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), India’s top software services exporter, is seeing good demand for outsourcing services across sectors and expects client spends to be better in fiscal 2012, its chief executive said. N Chandrasekaran, who is also the managing director of TCS, said IT outsourcing demand in Europe was recovering but was “slightly behind [...]