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Had India not lost four wickets in the opening hour on the first day here in Ahmedabad, chances are this Test match would have fallen asleep long before lunch on the fifth day, and both captains admitted that there was little they could have done to get a result on the surface.
“I wouldn’t play any [...]

Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): The racist violence targeting Indian students in Australia is going to have a big impact on its economy, with enrolment of Indians at Victoria’s universities expected to plunge by up to 50 per cent in 2010.

The shortfall, comprising existing students who plan to abandon their courses here and hundreds more who [...]

Melbourne, July 13 (ANI): One of Australia’s most prominent Indian-born businessmen has astonishingly said that the bashed students from his homeland provoked the assaults on themselves by being drunk and “making merry”.

Vikas Rambal, a Perth-based fertiliser tycoon and major cricket sponsor, also said that Australians only ever attacked anyone they found “too offensive”.

Groups in Australia [...]

Melbourne, June 19 (ANI): Australian cricketer Brad Hodge today joined Indian students and members of Victoria Police on the cricket pitch to promote a message of harmony.

Representatives of the groups formed mixed teams to take part in a game of Laneway Cricket in Melbourne’s CBD.

The initiative is an extension of programs Cricket Victoria [...]

Bhatta Fall (Uttarakhand), May 24 (ANI): At least six persons, including a child, died after a tourist bus fell into a gorge here in the early hours of Sunday. Thirty-five persons were injured in the incident.

The bus, carrying men, women, children and [...]

Kota/New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): Rising mercury has made life difficult for residents in Rajasthan and New Delhi.

With maximum temperature hovering around 45.4 degrees Celsius, Kota city is the second highest heat affected region in Rajasthan. Temperature at Churu has recorded highest at 46.2 degrees Celsius.

Soaring temperature has made life miserable for residents who now [...]

Darshan nagar village/Madna village (Faizabad), Apr 13 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh Government is involving villagers in digging of a sewage line and a pond to generate employment.

In Darshan Nagar village under the Purabazar province in Faizabad district, a sewage line is being dug in front of the concrete [...]

New Delhi, Apr 12 (ANI): Indian opener Virender Sehwag on Sunday said if given a chance, he would prefer to step in as a middle order batsman.

“I was a middle order batsman. I like to bat in middle order. But currently, team demands me to open batting and I am doing so,” Sehwag told reporters [...]

For many HIV positive people life comes to an end after cognizing about the deadly disease, but for the 38-year-old Khundrakpam Pradip Kumar Singh, a Manipuri body builder, his real life began in March 2000 when he came to know, he was HIV positive.
Defying physicians who warned him against the severities of muscle building, Pradip [...]

Massachusetts’ securities regulators sued Fairfield Greenwich Group, a major “feeder fund” for Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, accusing the hedge fund of lying to investors and not exercising enough diligence over investments that were worth billions of dollars.
The most damning accusations in the civil charges filed on Wednesday by Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin may [...]

Patna, Mar 13 (ANI): A massive raid in the Bihar’s Siwan Jail led to the recovery of Rs 13,000 allegedly from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a kidnapping and suspected murder case.

According [...]