NEW YORK: Indian teenager Yuki Bhambri ousted eighth seed Horacio Zeballos with a three-set win to advance to the second round of the US Open men's singles qualifying event, here.Yuki pipped his Argentine opponent, who is ranked 86 places above him at 109, 4-6 6-3 7-6 (5) in the first round of the hard court Grand Slam tournament.Yuki will...

HYDERABAD: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday added more fuel to the intense speculation about his strained relationship with V V S Laxman, saying he was not invited for a late night party thrown by the retired cricketer at his residence.Laxman, who retired from the game in controversial fashion just ahead of the series against New Zealand even...

NEW DELHI: The CAG report on coal block allocations rocked Parliament today with a determined Opposition disrupting proceedings by demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who held the Coal portfolio when the alleged irregularities took place.The Lok Sabha could not transact any business because of the unruly scenes, which first resulted in adjournment till noon and then...

NEW DELHI: As the Opposition paralyzed Parliament over the CAG report on coal block allocations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government is ready for any discussion and give satisfactory answers to all issues raised."We are ready for any debate," Singh told reporters after Parliament was adjourned for the day because of the uproar created by the Opposition which...

LONDON: US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed.Citing unnamed sources within the joint operations command, Rich Miniter, a former 'Wall Street Journal' and 'Washington Times' reporter, claims...

WASHINGTON: The Infosys victory in federal court in Alabama may deter potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies and the mere possibility of litigation should not scare away businesses from investing in the US, an eminent Indian American lawyer has said."Infosys's victory in federal court may very well have a chilling effect on potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies," a...

MUMBAI: Defying the Mumbai police, which refused him permission for a rally from Girgaum Chowpatty to Azad Maidan, MNS chief Raj Thackeray today led his supporters' march against August 11 violence during a demonstration against alleged atrocities on Muslims in Assam and Myanmar.Though the MNS has got permission for a public meeting at Azad Maidan, the police did not...

KABUL/WASHINGTON: Taliban militants today fired rockets and damaged the special aircraft of the top most US military commander in Afghanistan's highly secure Bagram air base, but General Martin Dempsey escaped as he was not in the plane.The rockets uprooted the main door of the C-17 aircraft used by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, wounding two...

NEW DELHI: Nuclear weapons have deterred world powers from issuing "explicit or implicit threats" to blackmail India to toe a particular line, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said here today."On at least three occasions before 1998 other powers used the explicit or implicit threat of nuclear weapons to try and change India's behavior," Menon said without elaborating.Addressing the National...

WASHINGTON: Arguing that Iran does not deserve to host the NAM summit, the US has said Tehran would attempt to manipulate the upcoming meet to advance its own agenda as it is trying to "skirt sanctions" over its nuclear program.Being hosted by Iran, the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit would be attended by global leaders like UN Secretary General...