DUBAI: India start their campaign in the Asia Cup, which commences Feb 25 in Dhaka, with an aim to retaining the number-two spot on the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings at the April 1 cut-off date. At number two, India will be the highest ranked side in the five-team tournament, with 115 ratings po

SYDNEY: Putting the blame for India's economic woes on its internal issues, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has said New Delhi should not attribute its problems to monetary polices of developed nations. "I once again say that in India there are sufficient internal problems which are no

It was being taken from Kolkata to Coimbatore The city police on Saturday evening arrested three men at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) who were transporting 54 kg of gold, estimated to be worth Rs. 16.5 crore, from Kolkata (West Bengal) to Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu). The accused — Balasubram

Jubail, Saudi Arabia: A young boy named Zakariya, who basically hails from Raichuru, Karnataka passed away in a tragic road accident in Jubail on 22nd Feb.  He was an eighth standard  student of  International Indian School,  Jubail. Zakariya, the only son of  Riyaz, who is presently working at S

Dr Khalil Abdullah's proposal would see 280,000 a year leave country over next 5 years Manama: A Kuwaiti lawmaker has called for the deportation of 280,000 expatriates per year for the next five years to help address the imbalanced demographic in the country. “There is a critical need to find solu

UNITED NATIONS: The UN security council united for the first time on a resolution on Syria's humanitarian crisis Saturday, demanding that President Bashar Assad's government and the opposition provide immediate access everywhere in the country to deliver aid to millions of people in desperate need.

Sharjah: The newly built Fifth Industrial Interchange — the National Paints bridge — in Sharjah was opened on Saturday, easing traffic on Mohammad Bin Zayed Road. The expansion works on the congested highway, which links Dubai with Sharjah and other Northern Emirates, began a couple of years ag

NEW DELHI: For a country which till recently had a weak civil society movement, India is now witnessing a boom in the NGO sector. With a population of 1.2 billion, the country could well be the land of opportunities for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the Central Bureau of Investigation c

London:  Death of the comma? One of the most commonly used elements of written English - the humble comma - could be abolished as a punctuation mark without doing much damage to the language, a US academic has suggested. Professor John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative

If you want to learn Kannada and have fun doing it, just log in to the many websites and become a guru. If knowing two languages is like possessing a second soul, then in our increasingly global village, all of us would have multiple souls. While learning a language can be done in many ways, from c

WhatsApp’s 450 million worldwide users were unable to access the smartphone free-messaging service for several hours on Saturday, three days after Facebook declared it was lavishing up to $19 billion on it. “Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. We hope to be back up and recovered shortl

The education regulatory body in Abu Dhabi has framed a new guideline that will revise public school teacher pay scales based on their performance. This, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) explains, will be gradually introduced in public schools, and could be a model that the private schools

Maulana Azad’s Islam was much more accommodative than the contemporary rigid and combative Islam BY : S. IRFAN HABIB It was on this day in 1958 that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away. It was not merely the death of an extraordinary human being but also the death of an idea that sparkled for

94-year-old Rishang Keishing retires after 7 decades in politics It was close to 5p.m. The sun had started setting and in an hour, there would be darkness all around. A man stood silently, taking in the surroundings of a place he had been a part of, on and off, since 1952. A place he said he woul

Railway Minister M. Mallikarjun Kharge will flag off three trains, including the DEMU (Diesel Electric Multiple Unit) Service from Thokur to Bhatkal here on Sunday. The Minister will flag off Mangalore Central-Madgaon daily intercity, Mangalore Central-Kacheguda bi-weekly express besides the DEMU

Project cost has risen to Rs. 7.5 crore in the past seven years Seven years on, the light at the end of the tunnel still appears as a faint, distant spot. During the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Mini Vidhana Soudha in the city in August 2007, the then Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswam

Bhopal, February 22: Vishwa Hindu Parishad convenor Ashok Singhal said here on Saturday that unless conversions were stopped immediately, the day would not be far off when Hindus would be reduced to a minority in this country. Addressing a press conference, he said it has become "imperative"

PATNA: If you have an internet-enabled device and you are anywhere on the stretch from NIT-Patna on Ashok Rajpath to Danapur, you can now access the internet free of cost. Once known as a backward state, Bihar has made a strong bid for a mention on the world's infotech map as chief minister Nitis