Injury-hit India’s Champions Trophy campaign was on Wednesday dealt a massive blow as middle-order mainstay Yuvraj Singh was ruled out of the eight-nation event due to a fractured right-hand finger. The stylish left-hander, who picked up the injury during a training session, has been advised rest for six weeks and will return home.
Delhi middle order [...]
Former Punjab Chief Minister and ex-Haryana Governor Harcharan Singh Brar passed away at his native village Sarai Naga of Muktsar today after protracted illness. He was 87 years old. He breathed his last in Sarai Naga village in Punjab’s Muktsar district and would be cremated tomorrow.
A veteran Congress leader, Brar also held the post of [...]
Shocked by the sudden and tragic end of their leader, 14 people died in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. Six people died in East Godavari, five in Chittoor, while another YSR fan got a cardiac arrest in Vishakhapatnam. Two others died in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam. Daily wager B Padma (44), a Rajiv Arogyasri [...]
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has died in an air crash. The bodies of 60-year-old Reddy, who led his Congress party to a spectacular second consecutive victory in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, and his Special Secretary P Subramanyam, chief security officer A S C Wesley, pilot Group Captain S K [...]
A powerful earthquake struck the southern coast of Java on Wednesday afternoon, rocking buildings 120 miles away in the capital, Jakarta. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Weather Service said the 7.1 magnitude quake struck Java, Indonesia’s main island, at 2:55 p.m. local time. The center’s initial report, at 3:06, triggered a tsunami [...]
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s helicopter went missing on its way to Chittoor district on Wednesday. The helicopter, that took off from Hyderabad earlier in the day, has landed safely in Kurnool district, though chief minister’s whereabouts are not still known.
An army chopper has been dispatched to comb the forest area of Kurnool [...]