Former Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu on Thursday resigned from the post of chief coach of the national cricket team following their recent 1-2 Test series defeat against India. Atapattu’s resignation comes after the island nation lost back to back Test series against continental neighbours Pakistan and India in last three months. It has been learnt that Atapattu’s resignation has […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: Sharpening focus on infrastructure development to boost growth, government will invest Rs 8.5 lakh crore in Indian Railways to change the face of the sector, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha said on Thursday. He also appealed to the opposition parties to help pass the GST bill that will usher in a new indirect taxes regime in […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: The Centre would soon build a major port at Colachel in the southernmost tip of Tamil Nadu at an estimated cost of Rs 21,000 crore, envisaged to emerge as a southern gateway of transshipment in the country. Coming close on the heels of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport in Kerala to be developed by the Adani Group, […]
» Read moreJakarta, Indonesia is set to launch a locally made satellite from India on September 27, a media report said on Thursday. The LAPAN A2/Orari satellite was produced entirely in Indonesia by the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) in 2012. It is a successor to LAPAN A1/Tubsat, which was launched in India in 2007, The Jakarta Post reported. “Today, […]
» Read moreSuperstar Shah Rukh Khan reached a milestone of 15 million fan following on Twitter, becoming the second Indian actor to have the maximum admirers on the micro-blogging site, after megastar Amitabh Bachchan. The actor thanked his fans via a tweet. He has left behind his contemporaries Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, who settle with 14.4 million and 13.7 million followers […]
» Read moreA wooden boat crammed with migrant workers who were headed back to Indonesia capsized Thursday off Malaysia’s western coast, leaving at least 14 people dead, a maritime official said. The boat was believed to be carrying 70 people and not 100 as reported earlier by fishermen, said First Adm. Mohamad Aliyas Hamdan, the district chief of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement […]
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