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India’s ace batsman Yuvraj Singh is back in action and will join the country’s team to play in 12-nation tour from September. The 31-year-old player, who created history in the World Cup getting India the golden cup after two decades last year, had to bow down briefly to a rare form of lung cancer. He had undergone chemotherapy in a ...

August is both an end to the lush freedom of summer and the beginning of another year of student life. As a rising senior at the University of Florida, this time is both exciting and anxiety-inducing. Even though I’m looking forward to many aspects of the school year, there are certain things about college—from book budgets to calculus study sessions—that ...

Larry Page’s famous quotation on a search engine describes a perfect search engine as the one that understands exactly what a user means and providing him exactly what he or she wanted. Recalling it Amit Singhal, Google’s top brass member writes: “It’s very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India, glued to our black-and-white ...

Tata DOCOMO has launched traffic SMS alerts for its pre-pay and post paid subscribers in Bangalore, as part of its value-added services for which it will charge Rs 30 per month, Rs 10 per week or Rs 1.5 per day. The service allows Tata DOCOMO subscribers to choose start and end location while selecting the time to receive real time ...

With more than a dozen self-driven cars on the road at any given time, Google has completed more than 300,000 miles of testing and these self-driving cars have covered a wide range of traffic conditions, without a single accident. “We’re encouraged by this progress, but there’s still a long road ahead. To provide the best experience we can, we’ll need ...

The cost of accessing Internet is not fixed by the government but it has decided to impose 8 percent as licence fee on all internet service providers which would promptly reflect in consumers’ bills. This is in addition to the service tax which is already at 14 percent now. The tariff for internet services are governed by the Telecom Tariff ...

US President Barack Obama called the Prime Minister on Wednesday to convey condolences over the shooting incident at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012. He appreciated the contributions made by the Sikh community in American society. He said that the tragic incident would be investigated. Prime Minster Manmohan Singh thanked President Obama for the support extended by the ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has congratulated Mary Kom on her winning the bronze medal in women’s boxing at London Olympics-2012. “I join the nation in congratulating boxer Mary Kom for winning the Olympic bronze medal in the 51 kg women`s boxing event. She showed great discipline and determination and has done India proud,” he said in a statement.

By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Winning independent India’s first gold medal and singing the country’s new national anthem was an exhilarating experience, says hockey great Balbir Singh, who was a member of the hockey team that won the gold medal at the London Olympics in 1948. “There are many, many such moments from the Olympics that are etched in my memory,” says the 87-year-old former ...

By Subhi Khanna CHICAGO: A day after they were targeted in one of the worst outbursts of violence against an immigrant community in generations, American Sikhs and the Indian American community are struggling to make sense of the bloodbath at a gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and searching for words to describe the carnage. While the motives of the suspected ...