Delhi police arrested three cricketers of the Rajasthan Royals team, including test-discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth over match fixing.
“When You Attack One Muslim, You Attack All Muslims”, Says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
NEW YORK – Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral damage” for US action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported on Thursday.
“When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev also [...]
WASHINGTON: The justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the justice department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers [...]
ISLAMABAD – Believe it or not! At least 49 polling stations across Pakistan reported an unbelievable voter turnout of more than 100 per cent in the just-concluded general elections.
Amid allegations of vote rigging, the voter turnout was reported over 100 per cent in at least 49 out of 8,119 polling stations sampled across Pakistan, by [...]
NEW DELHI – The Navy has been rocked by yet another alleged sex scandal, with an officer’s wife charging her husband with “forcing her to consume alcohol and getting sexually involved” with his colleagues at the strategic Karwar naval base in coastal Karnataka.
Defence minister A K Antony, already perturbed by the flurry of such cases [...]
LONDON – Families of Indian soldiers, who sacrificed their lives fighting for Britain in the first World War, will finally get the recognition they deserve.
The UK foreign office has announced an open plea to help them identify families of Indian soldiers who died fighting for England so that they could be brought to London and [...]
MOSCOW – Russia expelled a US diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA.
The announcement, a throwback to the Cold War, came at an awkward time for Washington and Moscow as [...]
MUMBAI – Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, told a designated TADA court in Mumbai on Tuesday that he is facing threat to life from fundamentalist groups and hence should be allowed to surrender before Yerwada jail instead of the special court. But on Thursday, Dutt surrendered to the TADA court.
The [...]
PARIS – Amid various protests by Sikhs in the UK, France and India against the death sentence of Delhi bomb blast accused Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, three Sikhs of France have been sitting on hunger strike since May 8 at a Paris gurdwara. After Nirpreet Kaur, 1984-riot victim, ended her fast on May 8 in New [...]
LONDON – One of Britain’s most important cabinet ministers has announced her full-fledged backing to the Asian Restaurant Skills Board in popularising the humble Indian curry.
Reacting to a story done by TOI on Monday on how the Indian curry was proving to be a saviour for Britain’s unemployed youth, minister of state at the Foreign [...]