Ignored for India’s first Test against West Indies at home, Harbhajan Singh was today named as captain of the Punjab Ranji Trophy team which will take on Uttar Pradesh in their first encounter at Mohali starting from November 3. Harbhajan was dropped for the first Test which starts from November 6 and Punjab Cricket Association [...]
Lady Gaga’s visit to India was indeed special for Shah Rukh Khan, as the pop star gifted her shades to King Khan’s daughter. Shah Rukh, who has earlier said that her 11-year-old daughter Suhana made him listen to Gaga’s music and eventually he became a fan, took to Twitter to express his happiness. “Lady Gaga [...]
Jammu and Kashmir’s Opposition PDP today re-elected incumbent party chief Mehbooba Mufti as its president for the fourth time after she won the elections unopposed. 52-year-old Mehbooba, a law graduate from the University of Kashmir, joined politics in 1996 when she was elected from Bijbehara Assembly seat on Congress ticket. She subsequently broke away from [...]
The Sensex closed nearly 100 points in the red today, its four-session winning streak snapped by profit-booking as auto-makers tanked on fears that rising interest rates will curb demand and oil and gas and metal stocks declined on growth concerns at home and overseas. The Sensex, which has gained 1,016 points over the past four [...]
Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has decided to involve eminent sportspersons in preparations of the contingent for the 2012 London Games to be held from July 27 to August 12. Veteran sports administrator KP Singh Deo has been named as the convener of the Olympic Games Monitoring committee. The IOA has also constituted a four-member empowered [...]
A marvellous racing facility, the famed warmth in hospitality there to be seen, and passionate fans filling up the stands, it all came together perfectly to make India’s Formula One debut a blockbuster. Initially, there were apprehensions, dogs on the track, a power-cut in the middle of a press conference and a bat flying in [...]
Buying a house in the city will now cost you more as Delhi Government today hiked the circle rates by up to 250 per cent for sale and purchase of property mainly to stop “flow of black money” in such transactions. This is the second such hike in circle rates in the city in the [...]
The Supreme Court today sought the Union government’s response on a plea for CBI probe into the mysterious death of National Conference leader Mohd Yusuf Shah Haji. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar issued the notice also to the Jammu and Kashmir government seeking their replies within two weeks. The bench [...]
Hindus celebrated Diwali at a historic 160-year-old temple at Peshawar in northwest Pakistan after it was reopened to the minority community after six decades on a court’s orders. Scores of Hindus, including women and children, visited the Goraknath temple at Gor Khatri, which was reopened after Phool Wati, the daughter of the shrine’s cleric, petitioned [...]
