It was a cold Wednesday morning in the capital with the minimum temperature recorded three notches below average at 4.4 degrees Celsius. The Met Office has forecast light rains in the evening. “There might be light rains in the city towards the evening,” said the India Meteorological Department official. According to the Northern Railway, 40 […]
Cuban Grandmaster (GM) Leinier Dominguez, considered Latin America’s top player, will compete in the 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament to be held Jan 11-26 in the Netherlands, media reported. This will mark the fourth time the Caribbean GM, who is currently ranked 14th in the world with a total of 2,754 Elo […]
World Boxing Association (WBA) world champion Kina Malpartida of Peru announced her retirement. “It is better to retire when one is on top. A boxer has to be in her maximum level to fight because the physical and mental wear is tremendous,” Malpartida, super featherweight (130 lb or 60 kg), told a local radio station […]
Following is the English League Cup semifinal first-leg result Tuesday, Xinhua reported Wednesday. Sunderland 2 (Giggs 45+2-og, Borini 65-pen) Manchester United 1 (Vidic 52) Playing Wednesday: Manchester City vs West Ham United Second legs to be played on Jan 21-22.
A group of experts announced Tuesday the discovery of a mathematics document 2,200 years old, the most ancient ever found in this country. It consists of inscriptions on bamboo sheets from the Warring States period between 475-221 B.C., which explain methods of multiplying numbers lower than 100 as well as certain fractions, historian Li Xueqin, […]
The Japanese government plans to register as state property around 280 remote islands it sees as being within its territorial waters in a bid to strengthen management over them, a senior minister said Tuesday. “The Japanese government plans to register the remote islands as part of its state property to enhance their management” Xinhua quoted […]
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Tuesday termed as “rhetoric and populist strategies” the austerity measures adopted by other politicians in the country. Asked to comment on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s endeavour to do away with “VIP culture”, Sangma said: “I would do things in my way and need not replicate the austerity measures adopted […]
The toll from a fire that engulfed three coaches of the Mumbai-Dehradun express near Dahanu, near Maharashtra-Gujarat border, early Wednesday has risen to nine, officials said. The fire is believed to have erupted in the vestibule between S-2 and S-3 coaches and quickly spread to the adjoining S-4 bogey, catching the sleeping passengers unawares, around […]
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal categorically denied that he was visiting Pakistan to broker a deal for former president Pervez Musharraf. The Saudi minister visited Pakistan amid speculations that he may also discuss a possible exile deal for Musharraf who is facing high treason trial, Xinhua reported Tuesday. Saudi Arabia brokered an exile deal […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government effected a second reshuffle of bureaucrats after assuming power. Arun Goyal, who until now was principal secretary (urban development), will replace S.S. Yadav as principal secretary-cum commissioner (food and supplies). The order is dated Jan 6 (Monday) when the government reshuffled 800 officials in the Delhi Jal Board. During […]