MUMBAI: Few things unite India like cricket, and on December 6, 2009, millions of Indians were united in celebration as their team ascended to India the top of the ICC Test rankings. Main men for Team India Fittingly, the victory that made it possible was marked by standout performances from the men who have played [...]
Telangana : All colleges in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh have been closed for two weeks. Critics of the Congress government say that’s the only action that has been taken in response to a movement that’s gaining momentum – one that asks for a separate state of Telangana. The face of that campaign, K [...]
All they have to do is to cut out high-cholesterol foods and their blood cholesterol will become normal. This is a misconception. Merely cutting down on dietary cholesterol will have an insignificant effect on blood cholesterol. Relying on a low cholesterol diet to lower blood cholesterol probably won’t work for most people. When the body [...]
Islamabad : Terrorists stormed a mosque packed with Friday worshippers near the Pakistani army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring over 20 others. The unidentified assailants lobbed grenades and fired indiscriminately with automatic weapons after entering the Jamia Masjid near Parade Lane in Rawalpindi, witnesses [...]
London: Hollywood actress Eva Longoria Parker has said she believes god guided her into acting. The “Desperate Housewives” star has revealed she never dreamt about being an actress when she was at college and is convinced a higher force steered her onto the successful career path, reports imdb.com. “Literally one day I said, ‘I’m going [...]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of realtor Emaar MGF in connection with the multi-crore illegal Hawala and investment case involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, PTI reported. The search followed the Enforcement Directorate reportedly finding certain documents that showed Koda’s associates on the board of certain Emaar [...]
MUMBAI: Paceman S Sreesanth was on Wednesday rewarded for his impressive return to international cricket with a berth in India’s T20 and One-day Team India ODI team: Sreesanth returns, Ishant dropped squads for the series against Sri Lanka, beginning from December 9. Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan and seasoned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh were rested for the [...]
Chicago : A Chicago court has adjourned the hearing on the bail application of Tahawwur Hussain Rana till December 15. Rana is one of the two LeT operatives caught by the FBI in October on charges of plotting a major terror attack against India that left 166 people dead in Mumbai. During the one-and-a-half-hour long [...]
Hyderabad : Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao has been shifted from a government hospital in Khammam to Hyderabad’s Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, after his daughter Kavita appealed to the state Human Rights Commission. His son, K T Rama Rao, an MLA and TRS leader, too had demanded that Rao be shifted saying: [...]
Monte Carlo: Novak Djokovic will take a page from the Roger Federer playbook and trim his 2010 schedule in an effort to close the ranking gap on number two Rafael Nadal. The Serb finished this season with the most wins on the ATP but wants to do even more when the new campaign starts in [...]
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