India claimed two wickets in the first session of the fifth day's play to inch closer to a historic series win against hosts Sri Lanka, who were tottering at 134/5 in the third Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Ground here on Tuesday. Resuming the day at 67/3, the islanders managed to
India remained on course for an away Test cricket series victory against Sri Lanka after 22 years, as the hosts chasing a challenging target of 386 to win, struggled to reach 67/3 in their second innings at stumps on the fourth day of the third match here on Monday. Opener Kaushal Silva (24
Employees of public sector banks and government-owned non-life insurance companies would go on strike on Wednesday to protest against the anti-trade union and worker policies of the central government, union leaders said on Tuesday. "The strike is against the anti-labour and anti-trade union policies of the central government," K. Govindan, joint secretary, General
Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata invested an unspecified amount in the US-based Infinite Analytics, a predictive data analytics firm from MIT, with sales operations in India, the company said on Monday. "We have received funding from Tata to expand our predictive analytics technology to verticals beyond retail and e-commerce," the three-year-old analytics
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to transfer back Rs.1,274.21 crore to Telangana with the union finance ministry advising it to reverse the deductions made from the state's principal account as "it was not in consonance with the principle of cooperative federalism". The deductions were made in response to an income
Actor Ranveer Singh, who suffered an injury due to a fall from a horse while shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's directorial “Bajirao Mastani” earlier this year, is now back at work. In May, Ranveer's injury had forced the actor to rest for nearly two months, read a statement. Determined to make a
Actress Pamela Anderson believes her pet dog Jo-Jo "committed suicide" because he didn't like her former husband Rick Salomon. The 47-year-old was left devastated when Jo-Jo passed away a few months ago and believes her former spouse, whom she divorced in April this year, is to be blamed, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Anderson told
A special CBI court here on Tuesday pronounced 13 accused guilty for the 2009 murder of Paul Muthoot George, who was stabbed to death. The court said nine people were directly involved in the killing while four were guilty of destroying evidence. One man was set free. A bachelor, George, 32, belonged
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said the security environment at present was complex and there was a need to be vigilant all the time. "Security environment today is complex… need to be vigilant all the times," the minister said while addressing a tri-services seminar here on the 1965 Indo-Pak war. The
A court here on Monday extended till September 5 the police custody of Indrani Mukherjea and two others accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora in 2012. And in a fresh development, police also charged Indrani with conspiring to kill her son Mikhail around the time she allegedly strangled and burnt her daughter