The groundbreaking ceremony of the much-awaited new building of the Indian Embassy in Seef, Bahrain, will be held next week. Indian Ambassador Mohan Kumar announced Friday during the monthly open house in the embassy premises in Adliya that Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will attend the ceremony Dec 8, Gulf Daily News reported
India start their three-match One-Day International (ODI) series against South Africa from Dec 5 assured of retaining its No.1 spot on the ICC ODI rankings table, irrespective of the outcome of the series. India are ranked first with 122 points while South Africa are fifth with 107. Even if South Africa sweep the series
India’s Shikhar Dhawan Sunday entered the top 10 of the ICC rankings for One-Day International (ODI) batsmen for the first time after moving up two places to ninth. Dhawan was rewarded for his 159 runs in three matches against the West Indies with a best-ever 736 points. Left-hander Yuvraj Singh also moved up a
Rising Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu notched up her second Grand Prix Gold title by clinching the Macau Open at the Macau Forum here Sunday. The top seed won the women's singles final 21-15, 21-12 in 37 minutes against Canadian seventh seed Li Michelle. Sindhu had also won the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold
Indian top seed P.V. Sindhu cruised into the women's singles final of the $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold at the Macau Forum here Saturday. The World No.11 easily overcame a much lower ranked Qin Jinjing of China 21-13, 18-21, 21-19 in their first-ever encounter. Sindhu took an hour and eight minutes to win
India's maiden spacecraft to Mars headed early Sunday to the red planet 22 minutes after leaving earth's gravity and entering the sun orbit in the interplanetary space. "The trans Mars injection operation was successful," state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told IANS on phone. He said the orbit details would be
Experts from 35 countries are expected to gather in this Kerala city for the high-profile global health conference on social marketing and franchising (SMF), the first time such a conference is happening here. The meeting, beginning Thursday, is expected to help the country achieve universal health coverage. The meetings will occur over three days.
Tired of being unable to concentrate in a crowded classroom or comprehend what is being taught? Online or e-tuition sites, complete with lucidly illustrated examples and tests, are gaining in popularity with students able to study in the comfort of their homes and at a time of their choice. Websites like Futor, Meritnation
Actor Paul Walker, best known for his role in the movies such as "The Fast and the Furious", died in a car crash. He was 40. The accident took place Saturday in Santa Clarita, California, reports tmz.com. Walker was said to be inside the Porsche GT when the driver somehow lost control.
Within a month of introducing a free movie service, social networking site Worldfloat said Sunday it now offers more than 50,000 films in English, Hindi and several regional Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. "We started the movie service in early November. Now we are offering more than 50,000 movies. This makes