Seemingly pained by Team Anna’s rebuke for politicians, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday regretted that the anti-corruption crusaders have used very objectionable words about the elected representatives but noted he would not return the favours and take this discourse to a new low. “I know Team Anna has from time to […]
MUMBAI: Former chief minister and Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh played a decisive role in convincing anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare to end his fast, but there’s a feeling he should have been approached earlier to deal with the crisis. A top bureaucrat told TOI that had Prime Minister Manmohan Singh roped in Deshmukh a day after […]
Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding feels Test cricket will become “insignificant” in five years time and cited the ever-gaining popularity of the Twenty20 format for the bleak future of the longer version. “I definitely fear for Test cricket,” Holding was quoted as saying in the New Zealand Herald. “Test cricket may be around […]
Sardara Singh and Sandeep Singh were handed two-year bans from international hockey on Saturday on disciplinary grounds. The two, members of the Indian team to play in the Asian Champions Trophy, had left the training camp in Bangalore recently without permission. The team was scheduled to leave for China on Sunday. The decision was taken […]
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Mumbai: Kareena Kapoor, who was recently in Ahmedabad to promote her upcoming flick `Bodyguard`, interacted with fans, traveled the city and shared her experience of the film with the media. Her previous two films with Sallu, ‘Main Aur Mrs. Khanna’ and ‘Kyun ki’ failed to create a buzz at the Box Office but she is […]
(Reuters) – Cheap generic drugs to cut heart risk are substantially underused worldwide, with more than half the people who could benefit estimated not to be getting any of four simple and effective types of medicine, researchers said on Sunday. Underuse is most acute in low-income countries, where around 80 percent of people with a […]
Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim. Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts assessed 43 studies involving 200,000 children, and found deaths were cut by 24% if children were given the vitamin. And they say taking […]
Loop Mobile, one of the oldest mobile operators in India, has launched the Mobile Money service, which will let subscribers use their mobile phone as a virtual wallet. The service has been launched in partnership with ZipCash. Subscribers of the mobile provider can use their mobile phones to pay for mobile and utility services such […]
PUNE, India — BMW AG’s India unit Thursday said it has raised capacity at its factory for the fourth time in a year to meet rising demand for its luxury sedans and sport-utility vehicles in Asia’s third-largest automobile market. The latest expansion will take annual capacity at the plant, located in Chennai in Tamil Nadu […]