Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan does not see international cricket returning to his country anytime soon. Khan feels the sport is suffering a lot since Pakistan became a no-go zone for international teams following the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Since the attack, Pakistan not only […]
A 30-year-old call centre employee was raped by her colleagues in her office in Haryana’s Gurgaon, police said. Acting on the complaint of the victim, who resides in a hostel in R.K. Puram area of south Delhi, Delhi Police registered a zero FIR Monday and later transferred the case to Gurgaon. The victim told the […]
Selling his house and shop and taking loans at heavy rates of interest rates to help a sex worker whom he loved and wanted to marry to pay her debts, a man saw red when she still refused to live with him and murdered her, police said Monday. Tannu Chawla, 27, and his friend, Yogesh, […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said he had written to Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung over shortage of staff in the Anti Corruption Branch. He said he would meet Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi over the matter. “There are 19 vacant positions at inspector level. We have asked LG to provide us inspectors. I will […]
After the Hurriyat’s 2002 split into the “hardliners” and “moderates” factions led by Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq respectively, the section led by the Mirwaiz Monday appeared headed for another split. Facing flak from the faction led by hardline separatist leader Geelani who Monday accused its former chairman, Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat of […]
Three years before his ski accident, Formula One legend Michael Schumacher had made a will of distributing his 750 million pounds (over $1 billion) cash, cars and property empire among his wife and two children. According to Daily Mail, in 2010, the seven-time Formula One World Champion admitted that he had made a will for […]
India and Japan Monday decided to step up military ties as they discussed issues of regional and global security during talks between Defence Minister A. K. Antony and his visiting Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera here, an official release said. “The two ministers extensively and frankly exchanged ideas regarding regional and global security challenges, as well […]
Pitching for support of overseas Indians, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said it would move the Election Commission in the next three days to allow eligible non-resident Indians (NRIs) to vote through postal ballots in the 2014 elections. A resolution was adopted at the “global meeting” organised by the Overseas Friends of Bharatiya Janata […]
US Senate Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the next head of the Federal Reserve, to replace the outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke whose term ends at the end of this month. The Senate voted 56 to 26 to approve the confirmation, Xinhua reported. Yellen, currently the Fed’s vice chair, would become the first woman to […]
Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania housewife who called herself “Jihad Jane” in online postings, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for participating in a failed Al Qaeda-linked plot to murder a Swedish artist who drew a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. LaRose, a 50-year-old convert to Islam, pled guilty to following the […]