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Viswanathan Anand gets `quick chance` to fight back from losing world crown
World Chess Championship: Carlsen tears ...

World Chess Championship: Carlsen tears into ‘Berlin’, deflates...

You give him an inch, he takes a yard. Even if it’s Berlin defence. Magnus Carlsen tore into Viswanathan Anand’s ‘wall’ with white pieces, scored a win in 34 moves in a game lasting almost four hours and opened a new wound in the Indian’s heart. The Norwegian world No.... read more »

Boy dies as teacher ‘bangs his hea...

Boy dies as teacher ‘bangs his head against wall’

NALGONDA: A six-year-old boy studying in Class I of a private school died on Sunday after he was allegedly beaten up by his class teacher on Saturday for not speaking in English. The incident took place at Tirumalagiri village of Anumula mandal in Nalgonda district. A heavy posse of policemen was... read more »

Bengaluru has 27% of top 30 Indian IT pr...

Bengaluru has 27% of top 30 Indian IT product firms

MUMBAI/BENGALURU: Away from the e-commerce euphoria, there’s a bunch of Indian software product companies that is bolstering the domestic startup ecosystem with impressive valuations of their own. The top 30 software product companies – catering largely to businesses (B2B) – have... read more »

Can’t rule out privatization of Ai...

Can’t rule out privatization of Air India in future, civil aviation m...

NEW DELHI: Privatization of national carrier Air India will not happen immediately, but cannot be ruled out in future and there have been suggestions from various quarters in this regard, civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said on Monday. The minister also said that state-owned Airports... read more »

Judge in Pistorius Trial Faces Criticism

Several legal groups in South Africa have expressed concern about threats and harsh criticism of the judge who found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide, but not guilty of the more... read more »

Magnitude-5.6 quake hits north of Tokyo; no tsunami warning

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck in the Kanto region north of Tokyo on Tuesday, but no tsunami alert was issued. The 12:28 p.m. quake, which originated in... read more »

Iran rejects US-led coalition against IS

Seen from Tehran, which has helped both Damascus and Baghdad to confront IS advances, the coalition lacks credibility because some of its members had financed and armed the group as part of... read more »

Typhoon Kalmaegi sends in ripples to revive monsoon in Bay

Relative calm seems to be dawning on west and northwest India after a delayed rampaging run by the monsoon that lasted until the last week-end but the Bay of Bengal begs to differ. Some... read more »

Thailand deaths: Police search for man after killings

Police in Thailand are continuing to search for a man they want to speak to in connection with the deaths of two British tourists. The bodies of David Miller, 24, from Jersey, and Hannah Witheridge,... read more »