Andy Murray attempts to end 13-month winless streak ahead of US Open
British number one Andy Murray, who has not won a competition in a year, has said that he feels like he is in the best shape he has been for a long time, as he will attempt to end a 13-month winless streak with a second US Open crown. The Scot is now fully recovered from last September’s back... read more »
Ethanol-run green bus set for trial runs in Nagpur
Nagpur received India’s first ethanol-run city passenger transport bus, which has been manufactured by Scania, the Sweden-based commercial vehicle and engine maker, for trial runs on Friday. Scania Commercial Vehicles India Managing Director Anders Grundstomer handed over keys of this green... read more »
Goldman Sachs To Shell Out $3.15B In Settlement Over Mortgage Bonds
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), one of the largest investment banks in the United States, said on Friday that it will pay $3.15 billion to buy back low-quality mortgage bonds it had sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The Federal Housing Finance Agency,... read more »
Amazon readying an attack on Google’s advertising business
NEW YORK: US online giant Amazon is preparing to take on Google in one of its core businesses, Internet advertising, the Wall Street Journal said Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Amazon is developing its own program to target ads using the information it gathers about the... read more »
UN calls for immediate Gaza truce
UNITED NATIONS: The UN security council has called for “an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas. The council adopted the... read more »
Former CJI was Adamant on Elevating Corrupt Judge: Katju
NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju Monday again complained of interferences in the appointment of judges, saying former chief justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan tried his... read more »
100,000-year-old case of brain damage found
LONDON: An ancient skeleton unearthed in Israel may contain the oldest evidence of brain damage in a modern human. The child, who lived about 100,000 years ago, survived head trauma for... read more »
Tour de France 2014, stage 21: Marcel Kittel wins on Champs-Elysees as Vincenzo Nibali is ...
There were strange echoes of a distant, faraway time in Paris on Sunday; Red London buses parked off the Champs-Élysées, Yorkshire flags bearing the white rose lining the famous... read more »
Satish from Tamil Nadu wins weightlifting gold at CWG
CHENNAI: It was a historic day for Tamil Nadu’s Satish Sivalingam who won gold in men’s 77kg weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow late on Sunday night. Vellore-based... read more »
