The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the successful launch of the GSLV D5 rocket carrying a communication satellite. “I congratulate the scientists of ISRO for successfully launching the GSLV D5. My good wishes are with them,” Modi said at the foundation day celebrations of yoga […]
Australian skipper Michael Clarke praised his bowlers after their 5-0 whitewash of England in the Ashes series, calling them the best attack in the world. The Clarke-led Australia side won the fifth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) by 281 runs becoming only the third squad in the history of the game […]
Portuguese football legend Eusebio died of cardiac arrest early Sunday morning here at the age of 71. Eusebio played in Benfica for 15 years and was considered one of the best players ever in Portugal and also in the world, reports Xinhua. Eusebio da Silva Ferreira was born on Jan 25, 1942 in Mozambique’s capital […]
Real Madrid will again look up to their impressive home record to stand up to the pressure and remain in the race for the Spanish La Liga football title when they take on struggling Celta Vigo Monday. Real Madrid have only lost one home game all season, to Atletico Madrid, and defeat to Celta, unlikely […]
Australia won the Ashes in a 5-0 whitewash after a 281-run win over England on the third day of the fifth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground here Sunday. Resuming the day on 140/4 in their second innings and leading by 311, Australia continued to pile on runs before being dismissed for 276 […]
Two Indian women, who were injured in a road accident that claimed three lives, are still battling for life in a hospital in Oman. Three people were killed and six others were injured in the tragic accident Thursday near Samad Al Shams in Ibra, the second largest city in the Ash Sharqiyah region of Oman […]
The state power monopoly in Nepal has extended load-shedding hours from the earlier nine hours a day to 12 hours beginning Sunday. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), that had increased power cuts to nine hours a day in mid-December, announced last Friday further extension to 12 hours a day for domestic consumers. It is not […]
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott has described the current team’s 0-5 drubbing in the Ashes series by Australia as “depressing and humiliating”. “This has been one of the most depressing and humiliating days for English cricket,” Boycott wrote in his column for The Telegraph Sunday when England lost the fifth and final Ashes Test in […]
An Indian rocket carrying communication satellite successfully lifted off from the Sriharikota spaceport here Sunday. The Rs.365 crore launch mission has twin purpose – to flight test the cryogenic engine designed and built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and to put in orbit communication satellite GSAT-14. Precisely at 4.18 p.m., the Geosynchronous Satellite […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the successful launch of the Indian GSLV D5 rocket carrying a communication satellite. “Prime Minister congratulates the scientists and engineers of ISRO for the successful launch of GSLV D5 carrying GSAT-14 payload,” the prime minister’s office tweeted. “It is yet another important […]