W DELHI: IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore has written to the Indian cricket board (BCCI), intimating them about Vijay Mallya’s resignation from the post of Director of Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL). The new chairman of Royal Challenger Bangalore is Amrit Thomas, President and Chief Marketing Officer of United ... Read More »
BASEL: Two-time champion Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy progressed to the quarter-finals after registering straight-game victories but PV Sindhu’s campaign ended on Friday at the $120,000 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament. Two-time World Championship bronze medallist Sindhu’s campaign came to an end after the world number 12 lost ... Read More »
As even the least attentive school-age students of history will recall, Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 was the archeological discovery of that century. Now a find of similar importance could be soon unearthed – in a chamber directly behind that of the boy king. Radar scans of ... Read More »
A wet Dharamshala greeted the teams and fans ahead of the Australia-New Zealand World Twenty20 encounter at the HPCA Stadium here. A crucial match no doubt but only if it happens. Snow and rain in the distance cast a gloomy spell on the venue on the eve of the match ... Read More »
Barely 48 hours after being blown away by the Gayle storm, England will return to the Wankhede Stadium on Friday evening to take on South Africa in what would virtually be a must-win game for them. Eoin Morgan’s men will be keeping their fingers crossed for A.B. de Villiers not ... Read More »
Following the tradition, Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao and his wife Shoba presented “silk vastrams” to Sri Lakshminarasimha Swamy Temple, Yadagirigutta here on Thursday. The Kalanyam of presiding deity will be performed in the night, in which Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and his wife Vimala will take part. The Chief Minister ... Read More »
Surat is the cleanest railway station in the country, followed by Rajkot and Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), according to an Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) survey released on Thursday. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi’s railway station ranked poorly in terms of cleanliness as it stood at 65, among ... Read More »
An unreserved train ticket for travelling up to 199 km distance will no longer be valid after three hours of purchase of the ticket as railways has formulated a new rule to be effective from March 1, 2016, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday. Unreserved tickets for distances up ... Read More »
This is not the first time that debris from a building under construction has cost people their lives. Mounika Reddy (23), a B.Sc. graduate, had come down to Bengaluru from her hometown in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, for an interview with Infosys. She had successfully completed one round of interviews, and ... Read More »
Asserting that there are terror groups that are instruments of state’s policy and design, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said terrorism uses diverse motivations and causes that cannot be justified. Addressing the first World Sufi Forum, Modi in an oblique reference to Pakistan said while some are trained in ... Read More »
