600 shops gutted in Kabul market fire

Last Updated: Monday, December 24, 2012, 11:53

A huge fire razed two markets in Kabul Sunday and turned over 600 shops to ashes, police said.

SEBI imposes Rs 4 lakh penalty on Sunday Exports, two directors

Last Updated: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 22:30

Market regulator SEBI Thursday said it has imposed total a penalty of Rs 4 lakh on Sunday Exports Ltd (SEL) and its two directors for delay in framing the model code of conduct for prevention of insider trading regulations.

Voting starts in Belarus amid opposition boycott

Last Updated: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 12:44

Early voting began in the former Soviet state of Belarus on Sunday for a parliamentary election being boycotted by the two main opposition parties.

Prominent Sri Lankan editor sacked

Last Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012, 18:58

Frederica Jansz, the editor of Sunday Leader, said the new publishers of the paper were mounting pressure on her not to feature articles attacking the govt.

NASA`s Curiosity rover to land on Mars tonight

Last Updated: Sunday, August 5, 2012, 09:42

NASA`s Mars rover Curiosity Lander will finally land on after cruising across 350 million miles of interplanetary space for 8-1/2 months.

Phone-hacking: more newspapers under probe

Last Updated: Monday, July 23, 2012, 19:48

Besides media baron Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World, British papers Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star and Star on Sunday, have come under the scanner of the Scotland Yard for alleged payments made to prison guards for stories.

When Murdoch, ex-editor `almost came to fisticuffs`

Last Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012, 18:31

Murdoch, who appeared before the inquiry last month, had referred to Evans in unflattering terms, which provoked Evans to ridicule him.

East Bengal beat United Kerala 4-3

Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2012, 21:44

David Sunday`s hattrick went in vain as East Bengal rode on a late strike from Robin Singh to register a hard-fought 4-3 win over United Kerala in an I-League match at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan on Monday.

Nupur Mehta to send legal notice to British daily

Last Updated: Monday, March 26, 2012, 21:07

Little-known Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta has decided to send a legal notice to `The Sunday Times` for accusing her of being involved in match-fixing and has also kept open the possibility of filing for civil and criminal defamation against the British daily.

UK to extend Sunday shopping hours during London Olympics

Last Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 20:35

There is good news for shoppers during the London Olympics with the government planning to temporarily suspend restrictions on trading on eight weekends from July 22.

Can`t take away the fact that we are world champions: Ganguly

Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012, 20:33

Sourav Ganguly found little substance in the report published in a British newspaper about the World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan being fixed.