Never heard of bookie approaching Indian players: Sachin Tendulkar

While three Pakistan cricketers are expected to be questioned by Scotland Yard detectives on the ‘spot-fixing’ scam, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said Indian players have never been contacted by bookies.

“Never ever in my 21 years of inter

Pakistan needs moral revolution: Imran Khan

Former Pakistan captain and cricketing legend Imran Khan said the youth of Pakistan do not have role models and that the people in the country need moral revolution to avoid the crisis the country is undergoing.

“Youngsters do not have very good role mode

Elephant to be declared national heritage animal: Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Tuesday said the elephant would soon be declared a national heritage animal in order to step up measures for its protection.

“We will soon declare elephant as a national heritage animal as they have been part o

Bangladesh minister Sahara Khatun slammed for comments on Janmashtami

A call by Bangladesh Home Minister Sahara Khatun to the minority Hindu community to observe Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, “peacefully” and end it by 5 p.m. Wednesday in time for the end of “roza” has been criticised by the nation’s media.

The m

Bangladesh, China discuss road link via Myanmar

China is ready to sign a pact with Bangladesh on a road link via Myanmar, a visiting Chinese official has said.

China had expressed its support to build a 111-km road covering the three nations in March this year. It will link the southern Yunnan province w

Bangalore phobia will only hurt Western economies

The Indian information and communication technology (ICT) industry and Indian software professionals have earned global kudos for exceptional technical prowess, meticulous software development skills and quality processes for over two decades.

However, the

Lost on roads, men drive 450 km each year

Men spend nearly 450 km a year lost on the road — a distance equivalent from Delhi to Amritsar.

A survey in Britain found that over a quarter of men will wait at least half an hour before asking for directions.

Incidentally, 12 percent of the respondent

Salary hike for parliamentarians?

Our Parliamentarians are demanding their pay-hike allegedly because it should be at least one rupee more than that of Union Cabinet Secretary because of protocol. System should be to give a complete package of monthly salary by merging all types of freebies li

Lata mangeshkar missing from world’s top twenty singers!

It refers to name of surprise missing of name of India’s melody-queen Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar missing from short-listed twenty names for on-line selection of world’s greatest singer in last fifty years in the survey being conducted by American news-ch

SC order on media

It refers to a bold CNN IBN presentation in its programme ‘Face the Nation’ (10.08.2010) where Ashutosh, the editor of its associate Hindi news-channel IBN 7 strongly criticised the Apex Court order restraining media to cover crime-reporting in infamous Ar

Priyanka Chopra to be India’s green ambassador

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has agreed to be the national green ambassador to initiate eco-friendly campaigns in India, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Monday.

“I have been talking to Priyanka about how she can be a part of en

Mount Everest’s biggest mystery solved

The greatest mystery in mountain climbing involving the death of two British mountaineers who might have climbed Mount Everest in 1924, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the world’s highest summit, has been solved, claim Canadian

Parliament talks Rahul Mahajan

Reality TV star Rahul Mahajan, who has been in the spotlight for domestic troubles, got wall to wall coverage not just in the Indian media but also in parliament.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was speaking about the country’s population, but also about t

BJP pre-condition on retirement age of HC judges

It refers to BJP posing pre-condition to support government’s move to bring retirement age of High Court judges at 65 years to be at par with that of Supreme Court judges. Even though suggestion of BJP not to give post-retirement postings is basic

Instant arrests necessary for corruption in CWG

It is shocking and surprising that despite so much irregularities and corruption highlighted in media towards forthcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 (CWG) as also endorsed by Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), no inst

Pakistan has bigger nuclear arsenal than India: Report

Racing to beat India in the nuclear race, Pakistan has already stockpiled more nuclear warheads than India and has produced enough fissile material to double its nuclear arsenal, according to a new report.

While India is estimated to have assembl

NHRC Chairperson KG Balakrishnan on death penalty

Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) KG Balakrishnan has rightly favoured continuance of death-penalty, evidently in extreme-most cases, being necessary to maintain a fear-psychology against crimes attracting death-sentence.

Media wrongly projecting Rahul mahajan as celebrity

Indian media is guilty of unnecessarily projecting a spoilt youth Rahul Mahajan as some celebrity when his unwise acts of personal life are unduly highlighted. Was it fair by the electronic channel to include him as a star in reality-shows not only once but tw

Pakistanis see India as greater threat than Taliban, Al Qaeda

Pakistanis consider India a greater threat than Taliban and Al Qaeda with a quarter viewing Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks, favourably, according to a new study.

Most Pakistanis sampled (53 percent) said

UN declares access to clean water a human right

The United Nations Wednesday declared access to clean water a human right, voicing “deep concern” about a human necessity denied to almost 900 million people worldwide.

The 192-nation body approved a resolution put forward by Bolivia and signed b