Bridgetown (Barbados), May 29 (IANS/CMC) West Indies cricket team’s head coach Ottis Gibson says the presence of legends Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Curtly Ambrose will be an asset to the team’s preparation ahead of the upcoming Test series against New Zealand. Sobers, arguably the greatest all-rounder in the game’s history will work with the West […]
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry called up External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to congratulate her on ministerial posting and discussed “re-energising strategic” ties, an official said Thursday. Kerry called up Sushma Swaraj late Wednesday night. It was the first congratulatory call that she received from one of her counterparts around […]
The story is a bit topsy-turvy these days as far as journalism education goes, especially in the tribal areas in Central India. Instead of rural students coming to teachers in cities, teachers are going to ‘adivasi haats’ or weekly markets. This is happening in month long campaign of CGnet Swara www.cgnetswara.org), a community radio experiment […]
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China’s stock index futures opened higher Thursday with the contract for settlement in June, the most actively traded, opening 12.4 points higher at 2,175.4. The contract for settlement in July went up 10 points to open at 2,163. The September contract opened 13 points higher at 2,170, and the December contract gained […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone the completion of the deportation policy review until August, was received with criticism by activists and scepticism by Republicans. “Now isn’t the time to be playing politics with immigration enforcement or our national security,” Michael Steel, spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, said Wednesday. […]
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) Five Hindu children were kidnapped from Pakistan’s Balochistan province by unidentified armed men, media reported Wednesday. The children aged between five to ten years were abducted late Wednesday from Dera Allah Yar area while coming back from school, Dawn online quoted an official as saying. The kidnappers shifted the children to Sindh, […]
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) It was a humid Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded a notch below average at 26.3 degrees Celsius. The Met Office has forecast a clear day. “The skies will remain clear with the maximum temperature likely to hover around 42 degrees Celsius,” said an official of […]
Lucas Street (Barbados), May 29 (IANS/CMC) Captain Kraigg Brathwaite’s sixth first class hundred and fast bowler Miguel Cummins’s four-wicket haul, helped West Indies High Performance Centre (HPC) crush Bangladesh A by 351 runs under three days, in their opening four-day “Test” here. The right-handed Brathwaite made 164 (15X4, 1X6) to propel his side to 351 for […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has laid out a new doctrine of using “military force unilaterally” without permission when its own interests are at stake, but turning to “collective action” when Washington is not directly threatened. America would still lead using “military force unilaterally if necessary”, he told graduates at the US Military […]
Hyderabad, May 29 (IANS) The day-long shutdown called by TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao Thursday protesting the Centre’s ordinance to hand over 200 villages of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh for Polavaram irrigation project, affected normal life. Buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) went off the roads in all 10 districts including Hyderabad. Shops, hotels and […]