At least 61 people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata), officials say. A fire swept through a hospital in the Indian city of Kolkata early Friday, killing 61 people, many of them patients, and sending emergency workers scrambling to evacuate survivors [...]
The country’s Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, launched the tablet, called Aakash, on Wednesday. The tablet will likely be distributed at a subsidy to students in higher education in the country. DataWind has been able to get to a price of $38 for the tablet which has a 7-inch display with 800-by-480 [...]
Over the next month, the world will experience three eclipses: two partial solar eclipses a month apart and one total lunar eclipse exactly in between, and it all starts with a so-called “midnight” eclipse of the sun. Over the next month, the world will experience three eclipses: 2 partial solar eclipses a month apart and [...]
THE INDIAN team, which is unbeaten in their group in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 so far, will meet the weakest team of the group, Netherlands, in the 25th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 at Ferozeshah Kotla stadium in New Delhi. At the same venue on February 28, the Dutch team [...]
The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced the Union Budget 2011-2012. We take a look at some of India’s hard economic realities. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has “done a good job” by presenting a growth-oriented and inclusive budget. “The finance minister deserves congratulations for maintaining a high growth rate [...]
India overpowered Bangladesh by 87 runs Saturday in the opening match of the 2011 cricket World Cup. India was awarded two points with the victory. Virender Sehwag led the way for India with a career-best one-day innings of 175 and India’s score of 370-4 marked the fifth-highest total in tournament history, per CNN. The match [...]
Watch ICC Cricket World cup 2011 Live Online Streaming : ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, the biggest cricket event of this year will start from 19th Feb 2011. Almost all the nations have announced their teams for the world cup. There are 14 nations participating in the biggest battle of the year. This time ICC [...]
That victory ended their hopes of making the Super Eights and with Bangladesh knocking out India, it provided a massive headache to the ICC that two of the game’s superpowers were gone. The issue of the tournament taking too long was also a factor in the changes. This time around the 14 teams have been [...]
FANTASTIC OPENING CEREMONY OF ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2011 IN BANGABONDHU NATIONAL STADIUM DHAKA, BANGLADESH LIVE TELECAST ON : BTV FEBRUARY 17, 2011 The ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 has officially kicked off, with the opening ceremony going down on Thursday. The proceedings were quite spectacular for the event held in Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, [...]
