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22-man hockey squad picked for Canada tour

The newly formed national hockey selection committee on Wednesday announced a 22-strong squad, sans a fixed captain, for an away seven-match Test series against Canada from next month. Interestingly, the committee has not named any captain for the exposure trip and captaincy will rotate during the 2-25 October tour. Sandeep Singh had led the Indian [...]

Australia restrict Pakistan to 205

Australia exploited a spongy track to restrict Pakistan to a modest 205 for six in a crucial group-A match of the Champions Trophy cricket tournament in Centurion on Wednesday. Put into bat, opener Kamran Akmal (44), Mohammad Yousuf (45) and Misbah-ul Haq (41) provided a semblance of resistance on a tricky Centurion pitch to leave [...]

Oil rebounds in Asia after overnight falls

Oil rebounded in Asian trade on Wednesday after overnight falls in reaction to weaker US consumer confidence, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, rose 26 cents to USD 66.97 a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for November delivery gained 29 cents to USD 65.78 a barrel. Crude prices tumbled [...]

Sensex up 104 pts in early trade, Oil lists at 7% premium

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex shot up by nearly 104 points in early trade on Wednesday on higher capital inflows from foreign funds even as global markets were under pressure. Also, shares of Oil India which were listed on the bourses today attracted over 7 per cent premium at Rs 1,127 against the offered [...]

At least 58 killed in Guinea anti-junta protest

At least 58 people were killed in Conakry on Monday when Guinea’s security forces opened fire on opposition demonstrators, with troops reportedly removing bodies to hide the scale of the bloodshed. “We have counted 52 bodies and six more have just come in,” said a doctor at the Donka university medical centre, where bodies were [...]

Ketsana leaves more than 300 dead across SE Asia

One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of the Philippine capital. The death toll on Wednesday climbed past 300 and was rising. “We’re used to storms that sweep away one or two [...]

Over 100 dead as tsunami hits Samoas

Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages, killing over a hundred and leaving many workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities. Cars and people were swept out to sea by the fast-churning waters as survivors fled to high ground, where they remained huddled hours [...]

24 killed in Nepal church collapse

At least 24 people, including an Indian national, were killed and 62 others injured when a church building collapsed in Sunsari district in eastern Nepal, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday night when the roof of the three-story makeshift church in Dharan collapsed during a religious conference which was being attended by [...]

NATO assures total support to US in dismantling Al-Qaeda network in Afghan

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has assured United States President Barack Obama that the alliance would remain in Afghanistan as long as it took to finish its mission of dismantling the Al-Qaeda network there. ”Our operation in Afghanistan is not America’s responsibility or burden alone: it is and it will remain a team effort,” NATO’s [...]

Boat capsize: 35 more bodies fished out

With the recovery of 35 more bodies, the toll in the boat capsize in Bihar’s Khagaria district rose to 56 as search continued by the National Disaster Response Force personnel to locate around 20 missing persons. “We recovered 35 more bloated bodies from the river taking the toll in the capsize to 56,” Block Development [...]

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