NTPC has shut down one of its four 500 MW thermal power generation units at Kanhia in response to a closure notice by Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) following the power major's faulty fly ash management plan.

The criminal case against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, is on the verge of collapsing, the New York Times reported late on Thursday.

Time is running out for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Friday amid reports of anti-regime protests in the country’s second city Aleppo.

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels, who scored a gutsy 78 in the first innings of the second cricket Test, said he wanted to score a century against India on the third day here on Thursday.

Australian umpire Daryl Harper has admitted that he committed errors while officiating in the first cricket Test between India and the West Indies but said Indian players too did not play in the spirit of the game.

The world’s longest cross-sea bridge — the 36.48-km eight-lane Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China — opened for traffic on Thursday.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has asked Orissa to take urgent measures to safeguard the tigers in the state’s Similipal national park.

A man grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy and was promptly wrestled to the ground by bodyguards on Thursday, television pictures showed.

The Congress has suffered a jolt in the Jabera Assembly byelection in Madhya Pradesh as Congress candidate Tanya Solomon has lost this seat, held by her father and former state minister Ratnesh Solomon till his demise earlier this year, to BJP’s Dashrath Singh Lodhi.

R. Mohan

Rahul Dravid would have felt a sense of déjà vu when he battled to make a second Test win possible in five years for India at the Sabina Park in Kingston. A notoriously difficult venue for the visitors in terms of cricketing conditions and ambience was tamed once again by a senior batsman.