Veteran New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Tuesday. Vettori arrived here on Tuesday after Sunday's World Cup final loss to Australia as New Zealand's greatest ever wicket-taker, claiming 705 international wickets in 442 matches. The 36-year-old bowed out of cricket on a high, capturing 15
Indian opener Rohit Sharma and right-arm pacer Umesh Yadav made an upward climb in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) One-Day International (ODI) player rankings, released Tuesday. Yadav broke into the top 20 for the first time in his career following his 15 wickets in the World Cup, including four for 72 in the
Royal Challengers Bangalore, for all their flash and dash, glitz and glamour, choreographed one of the biggest flop shows of the 2014 Indian Premier League-7 (IPL-7) by finishing seventh out of eight teams with five wins and nine defeats – a record that defied all expectations and explanations. It will take a lot out
Indian chess Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli exited the World Women's Chess Championship on Tuesday, losing the crucial semi-final tie-breaker to Ukraine Woman GM (WGM) Mariya Muzychuk. The tie-breaker scores stood at 3.5-2.5 in favour of Muzychuk. In the final, Muzychuk would face Russian WGM Natalija Pogonina who defeated Swedish GM Pia Cramling in another
Over 10,000 jewellers in West Bengal downed their shutters on Tuesday in protest against the union budget making PAN number declaration mandatory for gold purchases of Rs.1 lakh and above. "This move marks a protest from the jewellers in the state as we feel it is unjustified. With more than 10,000 jewellery shops remaining
Mobile operators and telecom equipment makers on Tuesday contested the Department of Telecom's (DoT) calculation on the impact of the recent spectrum (airwaves) auction on tariff. "We will be happy to understand the government's calculation on the impact of the spectrum auction and the increased financial burden on the industry if tariffs are not
The Indian market regulator gearing to penalise listed companies not having a woman director on their boards has one woman in a similar position. Clarifying to earlier reports that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) does not have a woman member on its board, it said: "secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ms
The Indian market regulator gearing to penalise listed companies not having a woman director on their boards has one woman in a similar position. Clarifying to earlier reports that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) does not have a woman member on its board, it said: "secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ms
The central government would soon enact a new Motor Vehicle Act, replacing the 1998 law, for road safety, union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. "We will introduce a bill in parliament when the budget session resumes in April third week to replace the 1998 MV Act, which is bad
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday batted for ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds, as he assessed the situation at the frontier and visited border enclaves in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. On day one of his two-day trip to the eastern state, he said he