(00:00) Jaipur, March 20 (IANS) Five Indians accused of swindling Rs.2,000 million from people in Rajasthan and other states were Tuesday brought here from Vietnam. Manvendra Singh, Pramod Sharma, Mahendra Kumar, Asha and Neetu are accused of cheating thousands in several states on the pretext of investing them in a marketing firm, Gold Sukh. Asha and [...]
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) India’s batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar Sunday defended the controversial rotation policy during the tri-series in Australia saying it was the need of the hour to keep everybody fit during a long tour. Tendulkar said the policy to rotate the three openers, including him, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, was pre-planned and decided [...]
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) Indian batsman Virender Sehwag Saturday denied reports of his rift with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni saying he has no ambitions to lead the team. Sehwag blamed the media for reports of rift in the team. “I don’t think there is any rift. It was created by the media. We will continue to [...]
Chennai, April 4 (IANS) Mumbai Indians captain Harbhajan Singh won the toss and elected to field against Chennai Super Kings in the first match of the fifth season of the Indian Premier League at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Wednesday. Teams: Mumbai Indians: Harbhajan Singh (captain), Ambati Rayudu, Sachin Tendulkar, Richard Levi, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Kartik, [...]
Mirpur (Dhaka), March 16 (IANS) Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that Bangladesh were clearly the better side and his bowlers felt the pressure during the Powerplay as the World Champions slumped to a five-wicket defeat at the hands of the hosts in the Asia Cup here Friday. Chasing 289, Bangladesh scored 293 for five with [...]
Chennai, April 3 (IANS) India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that it has been a mixed season for the World Champions since winning the World Cup a year ago. “We had ups and downs. We won the World Cup which was very big for us. After that, we did not do well in England and Australia. [...]
Suva, March 27 (IANS) Ahead of the 2014 elections, leaders of Fiji’s two rival political parties — Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewe (SDL) ni Vanua Party and the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) — are likely to join hands to contest the polls. FLP and SDL were once the biggest political rivals with the former representing the Indians [...]
Ghaziabad, April 26 (IANS) Two labourers were run over and dragged 50 metres by a train in Ghaziabad Thursday morning on the Delhi-Moradabad railway track, police said. The SP City S.S. Yadav said, “Two men have died in a train accident due to their fault being engaged on the phone while crossing the railway track. The [...]
(12:00) New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming admits the defending champions were put under tremendous pressure by Delhi Daredevils and has appreciated his captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s cool composure after the team’s poor performance. After the big loss here Tuesday night, Fleming said Dhoni is never under pressure and knows how [...]
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) IIT-Bombay has emerged as the hottest centre for innovation in the country with three of its alumni – V.S.K. Murthy Balijepalli, Nitin Joshi and Vanteru Mahendra Reddy – making it to MIT’s India TR35 2012 list of young technology innovators, along with Abhijit Majumder of IIT-Kanpur. The list of 20 young [...]