Match referee Chris Broad walked around in a blood stained shirt while umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis looked dazed, just hours after an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team touring Pakistan on Tuesday. While they're used to dealing with incredible pressure in the cauldron of international cricket, nothing prepared the officials for this.
Try these tips before, during and after Holi and you can be sure this year's celebrations are safe and a whole lot of fun!
'The Gadkari issue is not about staying on the right side of the law, it is about public perception. How does the public perceive Nitin Gadkari?' asks T V R Shenoy.
District Judge Sachidananda Sahu convicted Dara Singh for the murder of garment trader Sheikh Rehman on August 26, 1999 at a market at Padiagada in Mayurbhanj district
The Supreme Court has held that a person can be convicted for rape if the victim's testimony, though not fully corroborated, is credible and even if there is slightest penetration without rupturing the hymen. The apex court said minor discrepancies like non-examination of the medical doctor by the prosecution cannot be a ground for giving the benefit of doubt to the culprit.
Over 2.6 lakh fowls have been culled in Assam so far where flu bird has reached an alarming proportion affecting nine districts till date. The state veterinary and animal husbandry department have engaged over 400 rapid response teams in the on-going culling operation.
Kanimozhi and Kalmadi were welcomed as if they were freedom fighters emerging from jail. Getting bail does not mean that the cases against them have come to an end, or that they have been found innocent by the trial courts, says T V R Shenoy.
Tension and fear engulfed the Nariman Point area on Thursday morning as terrorists took shelter in Trident Hotel (earlier called Oberoi), holding an undisclosed number of people hostage and engaging security forces in a fierce gun-battle.
'We ought to do something now because even the bacteria we have treatments for now we don't use wisely... We have reached a point where there aren't any new antibiotics coming out... Patients must get the right antibiotic at the right dose for the right amount of time,' says Dr Arjun Srinivasan, the acclaimed scientist who is an expert on bacterial resistance.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the city police on a petition filed by Sanjeev Nanda challenging a lower court's decision to sentence him to five years' imprisonment in the BMW hit-and-run case.
Sanjeev Nanda on Friday received a five-year jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case. Businessman Rajeev Gupta received a one-year jail term for destruction of evidence, while his two employees got six months jail term each.
Sanjeev Nanda, prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run incident, was convicted by a Delhi court on Tuesday. Nanda's car mowed down six persons, including three cops, were in 1999.
Actress Isabelle Fuhrman makes Orphan very scary indeed.
Even as the environmentalists and marine zoologists are crying hoarse over the impact of the oil spill, there is good news as far as the shoreline near Mumbai is concerned.
'So, we are supposed to feel concerned about what happened in the 'IT capital' on Friday afternoon; we are supposed to slam terrorism 'in no uncertain terms'; we are supposed to light a candle in our hearts and mourn.'
After a month of painstaking investigations in the Aarushi double murder case, the CBI appears to be veering around the view that the father of the teenage victim and an accused Dr Rajesh Talwar may be innocent.
After Ramesh Malhotra's suspension on charges of sexual harassment, the Indian Weightlifting Federation on Sunday headed towards a bitter showdown among its top brass with Olympic bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari demanding the sacking of secretary Sahdev Yadav for ignoring complaints against the disgraced coach.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested for the 26/11 attacks, on Monday named four Lashkar-e- Tayiba members, including its operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who came to see the 10 accomplices off when they started from Karachi in a boat to reach the shores in Mumbai.
Struggling hard with the Aarushi murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation has now approached television channels for handing over raw footage of coverage of the twin murder case. In the meantime, the agency continued with the lie detector test of Talwar and asked him questions about the crime scene again, besides quizzing him to verify the statement of other people, including his wife Nupur.The CBI is awaiting a formal report from the Central Forensic laboratory.
Both Pankaj Kapur and Shahid struggle, going from light and likable to irritating and implausible when the film changes gear from romcom to melodrama.
The pink city of Jaipur, which turned red on Tuesday evening as eight serial bomb blasts ripped through the city, wore a deserted look on Wednesday. Instead of the usual hustle-bustle of traffic and tourists on the roads, khaki-clad men and firemen, engaged in taking the blood stains off the road, were seen at work. Even though curfew has been imposed in just 15 police stations areas in the district, the entire city bore an eerie silence.
Brazilian striker Ronaldo fears his reputation has been ruined forever after his "shameful" run-in with transvestites in Rio de Janeiro last week. "I've done something really stupid in my personal life," the AC Milan player said in an interview with Globo television on Sunday.
In a recent call to Filipinos, president Arroyo said they should boil rice with sweet potatoes or they should go for cheaper cereals to avoid going hungry as rice prices soared to record levels. "This is a once-a-millennium global crisis. We have an action plan," Arroyo said, noting that residents of the central island of Cebu are already using cheap sweet potatoes to beat the crisis.
Special Court Judge Madan Lakshmandas Tahilyani stunned the Mumbai police and public prosecutor Ujawal Nikam when he acquitted two Indian nationals Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin of all the charges in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.
Bhendi Bazaar faces a fairytale future as the Dawoodi Bohras initiate a Rs 3,000-crore project to change it from a squalid marketplace to a swanky neighbourhood, says Ranjita Ganesan
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh late on Sunday night, the second time in a day, amidst speculation that he may resign.
Sending your favourite and costly suit to the dry cleaners could soon become an obsolete practice. Researchers have invented a new fabric which can clean by itself. Using nano-technology, the researchers from Monash University in Australia and Hong Kong Polytechnic University have successfully developed the special fabric which can be made into self-cleaning clothes.
Kanchan Maslekar speaks to specialist Mukta Mokashi, who provides readers with skincare precautions while playing with colour this Holi.
The new political alignments in Orissa are not a sudden development. Low-key consultations between Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik and Communist Party of India - Marxist politburo member Sitaram Yechury had been on even before March 5, though it was on that day the two leaders spoke to each other directly.However, the two leaders decided not to interact for the next few days fearing that their high-profile meetings would alert the BJP.
The seeds for the family's brush with tragedy were sown when Benazir's father and former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged on April 4, 1979. Bhutto's end came after worldwide appeals for clemency were dismissed by the then acting President Gen Zia ul Haq.
Italian no.1 Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali have been banned for betting on tennis matches.
The chief of the outlawed Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) of Manipur died under mysterious circumstances at his brother's rented house on Monday morning.
The filmmaker lauded West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his 'courageous statement' indicting the state government and the ruling Left for Nandigram incidents.
Weak story line, wooden acting and tasteless songs make Go a no show. Another flop show from Ram Gopal Varma.
Mumbai terror attacks accused and Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab on Monday denied killing Maharashtra Anti Terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare, and police officers Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar.
The first name the pops into your head when you read the title on this fashion funda might be Simi Garewal, and for good reason too! The lady is almost never seen in any other colour. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
The cowardly act of terrorism has not dented his strength. He will continue to visit Mumbai and like always, will stay at the Oberoi-Trident.
Dara Singh, serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines, was on Saturday sentenced to a life term for the killing of a Catholic priest in Mayurbhanj district eight years ago.
A despondent Serena Williams grudgingly faced reporters after her 7-6 6-1 defeat to top seed Justine Henin in Tuesday's quarter-finals of the U.S. Open, tears staining her cheeks after the bitter result.
BJP workers celebrated the chief minister's victory by bursting crackers and distributing sweets at the party headquarters in Dehradun and also at Dhumakot.
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