NEW DELHI: Indian athletics' biggest doping scandal involving six top women athletes, including three Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medallists, ended with the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sports awarding an enhanced ban of two years on them.The world's highest sports tribunal upheld International Athletics Federation's (IAAF) appeal to increase the ban period of the six Indian athletes from...

NEW DELHI: Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh, who has started training after recuperating from a rare germ cell cancer, was on Wednesday named in India's 30-member list of probables for the September-October World Twenty20 Championships in Sri Lanka.Seasoned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, 32, who has been on the sidelines for a quite some time due to poor form, has also been...

DUBAI/RAMESWARAM: An Indian fisherman was killed and three others were seriously wounded today when a US Navy supply ship opened fire at their small boat off the coast of Dubai, a United Arab Emirates official said."An Indian fisherman was killed and three others, also Indians, were seriously injured," UAE's state-run news agency WAM quoted Foreign Ministry official Tariq Ahmed...

HOUSTON: Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts today successfully docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) for a four-month long stay during which they will conduct over 30 scientific missions.46-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide arrived at the ISS after...

WASHINGTON: A top Pentagon official assigned to work with India to streamline and ease high-tech exports and necessary bureaucratic hurdles is visiting India later this month.The Deputy Defense Secretary, Ash Carter, is visiting India as part of his 10-day Asia trip that would take him to Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Thailand and South Korea, Pentagon Press Secretary, George Little said.Details...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will not concede industries of the 21st century to China, India or Europe, a top presidential aide has said as he defended the administration's loan guarantee program."This President will not concede the industries of the 21st century to China, India, Europe and elsewhere," the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, told reporters traveling with...

ISLAMABAD: In a setback to the prosecution of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani court today ruled that all findings of a judicial commission that visited India were illegal and could not be made part of the evidence against the accused.Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, the judge of the Rawalpindi- based anti-terrorism court no. 1, said...

NEW DELHI: India has sought a report from its Ambassador in the UAE on the killing of an Indian fisherman in a US Navy ship firing at a docking point in Dubai even as the US today said the incident is under investigation.External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has sought a report on the incident from Indian Ambassador to...

NEW YORK: McKinsey's former India-born partner Anil Kumar whose "extraordinary" cooperation helped convict Wall Street tycoons Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta in insider trading trials deserves leniency at his sentencing later this week, US prosecutors here have said.Ahead of his expected sentencing on July 19 for securities fraud charges, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, in a 20-page letter to...

COIMBATORE: Two senior Sri Lankan defense officials today left here cutting short their visit to the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in the wake of protests by political parties in Tamil Nadu against imparting training to them by India.Air Vice Marshal Jegath Julanga Diaz of the Sri Lankan Air Force and Rear Admiral S Ranasinghe of the Lankan...