Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been elected as the captain of Sydney Morning Herald newspaper’s
Test team of the year, which also features India opener Gautam Gambhir.

Apart from Dhoni and Gambhir, no other Indian features in the team which is picked entirely on the basis of performances in… Read full post »

Reliance Industries Ltd began processing crude oil at a new refinery in western India, almost doubling company output and creating the world’s biggest refining complex just as global oil demand retreats.

After reaching full capacity of 580,000-barrels-per-day (bpd), the $6 billion proje… Read full post »

Al-Qaeda militants launched a pre-dawn breakout from a police station in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, triggering a shootout that left 13 people dead.

“During an exchange of fire between prisoners trying to escape and police officers in the station, six policemen and seven prisoners… Read full post »

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was on Thursday admitted to Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai after he complained of abdominal pain.Hospital spokesperson Mohan Rajan said 38-year-old Saif was undergoing treatment but refused to reveal more details.

However, actor’s mother Sharmila Tagore told,&… Read full post »

Pakistan has recalled troops on leave and deployed its armed forces to border areas with India where ground incursions are likely, a military source said.The country’s military has been on high alert in anticipation of a possible conflict with India following the recent terrorist attacks… Read full post »

Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter whose absurdist and realistic works displayed a despair and defiance about the human condition, has died. He was 78.Pinter’s wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, confirmed his death.Pinter, who had been suffering from canc… Read full post »

Four men died Wednesday in a shootout in Guatemala City’s largest market.Two bystanders — a 13-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man — were wounded by gunshots to the leg.The incident took place at 11:15 a.m. in the seafood area of The Terminal Market in south-central Guatemal… Read full post »

 When a seething Aamir Khan rams an iron pipe through a man’s stomach in the first few minutes of the film, you get an idea of what’s coming (in the original Tamil version, there’s apparently a tap attached to the pipe and when hero Surya turns it on blood… Read full post »