A 31-year-old Indian woman died in Ireland from blood poisoning after doctors allegedly refused to perform an abortion as it is "a Catholic country". Irish authorities have launched a probe into the death of Savita Halappanavar, a dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant. She had suffered a miscarriage and later died of septicaemia at University Hospital Galway in October, The Irish Times reported on Wednesday.
India caused the first major upset in the WSF Women's World Team Squash Championship when they beat higher-ranked Ireland in a dramatic tie which went down to the wire in Nimes, France.
Today, the search giant is celebrating the Irish novelist's 165th birthday with the doodle.
Ranbaxy Laboratories on Thursday said it will co-operate fully with any regulator from anywhere in the world wanting to investigate its manufacturing practices.
Gurcharan Singh tells Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com why he deserted the Indian team and the reason for wanting to return to the country after 15 years.
South Africa Test captain Graeme Smith has strongly denied recent suggestions that he or his team deliberately provoked England batsman Kevin Pietersen into sending 'provocative' text messages to the Proteas players during the recent Test series between the sides.
Britain will not enter a men's football team for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, English Football Association General Secretary Alex Horne said on Tuesday.
In the aadress top the United Nations General Assembly, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Saturday urged the world community to urgently bring to justice the perpetrators and supporters of terrorist attack against innocent civilians of Mumbai late last year.
South Africa and Sri Lanka are set to play two frontline spinners apiece on what promises to be a turning wicket at Centurion Park for their Champions Trophy opener on Tuesday. The hosts, the International Cricket Council's top-ranked one-day team, have off-spinner Johan Botha and left-armer Roelof van der Merwe while Sri Lanka will counter with off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and the unorthodox Ajantha Mendis.
Hitler had planned to invade Ireland during World War II but scrapped the operation because of Germany's failure to gain air supremacy over England, according to a top-secret Nazi war dossier recently uncovered.
The West Indies entered the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20 by virtue of superior net run-rate after their final group league encounter against Ireland was called off due to heavy downpour at the R Premadasa Stadium, on Monday.
Shane Watson's all-round performance powered Australia to an easy seven-wicket victory over Ireland in their opening Group B match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Wednesday.
After days of furore, a French court on Tuesday blocked the future publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate Middleton and asked Closer magazine to hand over the original pictures to the royal couple within 24 hours.The court injunction came after William and Kate, both 30, took legal action against the French glossy magazine for selling and distributing the images.
Roger Federer would like to repay New York fans for their support by treating them to a sixth successive US Open triumph at the year's last Grand Slam beginning on Monday. Federer is one step away from matching the feat accomplished by Bill Tilden, who won six US national titles in a row from 1920 before the championships were open to professionals.
The month of Ramzan is a great opportunity to focus on bringing back a balanced and healthy lifestyle in your life.
We revisit some iconic moments of the the much-loved television series as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Sonia Gandhi, Michelle Obama are some of the prominent names in the Forbes' list of the world's most powerful businesswomen
Financial advisor Amar Pandit in his book Financial Planning for Doctors lists seven most common money mistakes that doctors make. On second thoughts any one of us could make these mistakes.
Sophie Choudry bares it all on this month's Maxim cover
Excerpts from Kishore Kumar -- Method In Madness by Derek Bose unveil the man behind the music.
Kirori Mal College in New Delhi expelled two students on Monday for ragging their juniors.
Elesh Parujanwala -- the NRI businessman from Canada -- has managed to win over Rakhi Sawant's affections, as the two got engaged in a grand ceremony, aired on national television, last weekend.
An annoyed Dinara Safina has had enough of people questioning whether she can justify being the world number one, despite not having won a grand slam title.
Chandrayaan-1, India's first moon mission, has sent five new pictures of the craters on the lunar surface.
Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who lost her life after being denied an abortion at a hospital in Ireland, died of "medical misadventure", a jury at her inquest ruled unanimously.
'One hopes the younger generation sees Savarkar him for what he was and does not view him through a distorted prism.' 'This is the least one could do for someone who devoted his whole life to Indian freedom struggle, elimination of caste, succour to Dalits, and instilling of strategic culture in India,' says Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Google India closed its Hyderabad centre on Wednesday after one of its employees tested positive for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus strain. The effort was to ensure that other employees do not contract the virus.
High prices of raw material is playing havoc.
The actor is doing a full-fledged role in a Telugu film called Kalavaramaye Madilo.
European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal has named experienced players Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley as three of his four vice-captains for next month's title defence against the United States.
Tata Communications employee Agnello Alphonso's main complaint is that the current income tax exemption limit of Rs 1.5 lakhs has only been raised by Rs 10,000 to Rs 1.6 lakhs.
Samuthirakani on directing Sasi Kumar in his latest Tamil movie.
A clear aim , knowledge, hard work and perseverance are some of the qualities that help achieve success according to India's former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.
It seems like the bicycle has once again become the vehicle of terror. Terrorists have often chosen bicycles to plant bombs in the past, including the 2008 Jaipur blasts, that killed scores of people.
Shreyas, Jaaved turn women for a day to sell tickets of Paying Guest
A common factor that binds all these men is greed.
Here's what you must know before buying a used car.
Amid accusations of gamesmanship, Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has called for the stadium roof to be left open for Friday's World Cup qualifier in Sweden.
We have already covered the first ten nominees, and here are the rest.
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