Former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday. Symonds, who was signed up by Mumbai Indians last season for US $850,000, said he would not be able to take part in this year's Indian Premier League because his wife is due to give birth to his first child.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to make announcements in this regard on Thursday unveiling the annual budget of the Pentagon and the new defence strategy for the US to meet the needs of the time within the financial constraints.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
"The circumstances for India so far as export of uranium is concerned are in my view unique," Defence Minister Stephen Smith, who is currently visiting New Delhi to discuss security and defence cooperation, told ABC news channel. "Pakistan does not have the same record so far as proliferation is concerned. There have been serious expressions of concern about proliferation in the past," he said.
Reigning champion India will be bidding to gain further momentum and become only the third side in World Cup history to successfully defend its title after West Indies in 1975 and 1979 and Australia, who won the coveted prize three times in succession between 1999 and 2007.
Charles Darwin found his passion playing with rocks halfway around the world.
'Anyone of them could have been the girl. So in a way it had what I call the 'rakhi effect'. Everyone felt the rape victim could have been my sister and everyone felt that could have been myself.' Professor Shiv Visvanathan speaks to Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt on the recent demonstrations by India's youth, and on current political and social trends.
Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi put his second round debacle behind and defeated Mongolian Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan to jump to joint-sixth after the fourth round in the Asian Chess Championship in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.
The two highest rated Indian Grandmasters -- Abhijeet Gupta and Parimarjan Negi -- suffered major setbacks as they lost their second round ties in the Asian Chess Championship in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Today we use statistical methods for purposes as computing GDP & planning healthcare & education, but statistical methods originated with much darker motives.
Vijender Singh (81kg) and Akhil Kumar (56kg) settled for bronze medals after losing in the semi-finals, but the women pugilists kept India's chances of a boxing gold in the Arafura Games alive as all three advanced to the final in their respective categories in Darwin, Australia, on Thursday.
Indian boxer Akhil Kumar out-punched Nauru's Maakal Dj to enter the semifinals and assure himself of at least a bronze medal at the Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia on Wednesday.
Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh is assured of at least a bronze medal in his very first international competition in the light-heavyweight (81kg) category after advancing to the semi-finals of the Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia, on Tuesday.
Five months after winning a gold medal at the Asian Games, Vijender Singh is back in action in a higher weight category to spearhead India's boxing challenge at the Arafura Games in Darwin.
'Over one million people served in various battlefronts during World War I. And yet, even today, we know so very little about them.' 'It is absolutely essential to acknowledge this part of India's colonial history,' Santanu Das tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com
Airline now financially more stable but still in the doldrums as the operating environment remains tough.
Meet 28 year-old Dusyant Sridhar who is a techie by day and an Upanyasakar after work, giving discourses on ancient scriptures.
Ben Wheeler will replace Jacob Oram in the Central Stags squad for the 2010 Airtel Champions League Twenty20, in South Africa from September 10-26. The tournament's Technical Committee on Friday allowed the change after scans confirmed the injury-plagued New Zealand all-rounder will require surgery on his injured knee.
The Academy award winner was a bisexual who fought mental illness throughout her adult life, a new biography has revealed.
Cricket Australia tried out the split-innings format in a one-day match for the first time between South Australian Redbacks and Tasmanian Tigers at the Marrara Oval in Darwin.
Opener Peter Ingram on Thursday replaced hard-hitting batsman Jesse Ryder in New Zealand's One-day squad for tri-series against India and Sri Lanka starting August 10.
Britain withdraws the 20-pound note featuring the image of composer Edward Elgar will be withdrawn from circulation
Sri Lankan speedster Lasith Malinga, whose sling-arm bowling action and devastating yorkers proved to be a nightmare for batsmen the world over, on Friday announced his retirement from Test cricket because of a "long-standing degenerative" knee injury.
Grandmaster G N Gopal outclassed GM Darwin Laylo of Philippines to move into the joint second spot after the end of the fifth round of the Asian continental chess championship Subic Bay, Phillipines.
Australia have called up fast bowler Brett Geeves to cover for the injured Doug Bollinger on their tour of South Africa, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Sunday.
U R Ananthamurthy on the importance of keeping alive our regional languages.
All rounder Andrew Symonds has been sent home from the Australian one-day team to meet Bangladesh in Darwin.
Opening batsman Matthew Hayden has been ruled out of Australia's one-day series against Bangladesh starting in Darwin on Saturday to recover fully from an Achilles injury. Cricket Australia's medical staff opted to leave the veteran batsman out of the series to spare him the three-and-a-half hour flight from Brisbane to Darwin and rest his damaged tendon.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi chalked out an easy victory over fellow Indian Abhijeet Kunte to maintain a clean slate after the second round of the Asian Individual Chess Championship in Mashhad, Iran.
India were outplayed for the second time in a week by Korea as they lost 2-5 to the East Asians in their first match of the second leg of the Four Nation Hockey tournament in Darwin on Wednesday.
Disgraced Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds today returned home after being banished from from the Twenty20 World Cup in England and said he was still to weigh up his options before divulging his future international career.
Cricket Australia said the 33-year-old, who was absent from training on Thursday, was dismissed after breaking rules relating to alcohol.
A top-level international team of scientists, led by palaeontologist Dr Jorn Hurum of Oslo University's National History Museum, has unveiled an almost perfectly preserved ancient primate fossil that is being hailed as a crucial 'missing link' between the evolutionary branch of human life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
The increase came after World Health Organisation raised its flu alert level to phase five out of six, signalling that a pandemic was 'imminent'. It called on all countries to immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans.
Groups of youths, during the festivities on Monday, jumped upon the cars echoing racist comments to the terrified passengers within and were heard passing lewd comments on girls, according to The Daily telegraph newspaper.In Sydney, hundreds of youths draped in 'Aussie pride' livery wore objectionable slogans as they paraded down the seafront threatening by-passers and smashing car windows and vandalising shops of non-white shopkeepers.
Check out the list of instances when Australia could not even achieve a run-rate of 3.00 in a completed innings in last 5 years. 5 out of 10 such performances have come against India!
Breaking his silence on the on-field clash between Australia skipper Ricky Ponting and Brett Lee, coach Tim Nielsen said a poor over-rate wasn't the main reason the strike bowler was not used in the first session on the fourth day of the second Test in Mohali. It was, he says, also because they wanted to take pace off the ball.
Michael Clarke does not wear his heart on sleeve and admit it was painful for him to dump Andrew 'gone-fishing' Symonds. But what the Australian vice captain does not hide is how much he yearns for the return of the feisty all-rounder he counts among his chums.
Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds, who was dropped from the India tour due to his 'go-fishing' fiasco, has made a low-profile return by appearing for his club side Gold Coast Dolphins in Brisbane.
Legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne has lambasted temperamental all-rounder Andrew Symonds for showing disrespect to the national team and urged him not to throw away his international career and return as a better person.
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