LeBron James and the Miami Heat will open the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season at home against the Chicago Bulls, the NBA announced on Tuesday.
"I just could not believe it. My knees were shaking when I had to get up and walk towards the stage. I am lucky that I did not pass out or something," Sana said, recalling the May 16 award ceremony, in which Intel selected three top young scientists at the end of the world's largest pre-college science fair, held between May 11 and May 16. Each of them got $50,000 in college scholarships from the Foundation.
They were a top pair on court and off it their differences had reached epic proportions but after so many years, Leander Paes finds it irrelevant to dissect what went wrong between him and his friend-turned-foe Mahesh Bhupathi.
Michael Johnson lost his 200 metres world record to an extraordinary run by new Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt on Wednesday and predicted the big Jamaican could now take his 400 mark too. Johnson, who won the 200m and 400m double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was as impressed as anyone in the 91,000 capacity Bird's Nest crowd when Bolt shaved two hundredths of a second off his previous 200m world best to win gold again.
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes is soon to be featured as a superhero in a cartoon series on TV.
If you want to make a telephone call, your PDA or PC will work just as well as your cellphone.
It was alleged that the IT major made "improper payments to obtain permits and building licences in India"
Track the new businesses being started up in the country, and if they are not in the tech sector, the chances are that they are located in Delhi/Gurgaon/Noida. The majority of FMCG companies other than Unilever are in the Delhi area: Nestle, Coke and Pepsi, Dabur, Gillette, GSK Consumer Brands, etc. The same is true of the newer consumer durables companies, like Samsung and LG.
Rediff.com brings you some pictures that summarise the happenings in the sporting world in the week that was.
Be your own boss without inventing the business concept. Sounds easy--until you try it.
Clearly,Trump will have a serious problem if it transpires that COVID-19's grandma, grandpa and great grandpa are actually domiciled in the US, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
An image of a protest at the Coca Cola museum.
The potential entrants include the Essar Group, Punj Lloyd, Larsen & Toubro, real estate developer Atlanta, Hyderabad-based Nagarjuna Construction and Delhi-based DS Constructions.
Indian Davis Cup captain Leander Paes, who has been invited for the Olympic torch relay, said he has not yet made up his mind in this regard but feels boycotting the event for political reasons is not right.
'The media hype that the Gir lion species is in danger is totally wrong.'
With regard to faculty requirements at its proposed campuses in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, he said the faculty from Georgia Tech would take care of the teaching requirements in the initial years.
Ritwik Bhattacharya failed to continue the momentum and went down against sixth seed Matthew Giuffre at the Atlanta Open squash championship.
In his 28th season on tour and even after winning 18 Grand Slam titles in men's and mixed doubles, the 45-year-old Leander Paes still feels the need to reinvent himself to keep up with the changing times in professional tennis.
The PGA Tour's much-trumpeted "new era" delivered enthralling golf in the inaugural FedExCup playoff series.
The archive, including personal diaries written during the decade that he spent living in hiding from Islamic extremists, is being bought by the Emory University in Athlanta.
The fastest growth's in Asia, but the U.S. still dominates among the top 20.
Director Rajnesh Domalpalli talks about his first Telugu film that will not release in India
Although both parties were tightlipped on the details of the lawsuit, which was served on the company's US subsidiary this week, sources in the know said its financial implications would be huge if the court verdict goes against Novelis.
Novelis world leader in flat rolled aluminium products, customers include Coke, GM.
Applications are invited for the DHL Supply Chain Management Scholarship.
The United States won the Olympic women's 4x400 meters relay gold medal on Saturday in 3 minutes 19.06 seconds, their sixth straight victory in the event at the Games.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
It would be a huge achievement if the new administration manages a successful transition to some sense of domestic and international normalcy in these frantic times marked by the pandemic and rise of illiberal regimes across the world, observes Shreekant Sambrani.
Wray is a litigation attorney with law firm King & Spalding in Washington and Atlanta.
The plaintiffs sought to represent all dealers who entered into agreements with Global Vehicles to sell Mahindra vehicles in the United States.
An emotional Leander Paes did not hide his disappointment after losing the first round men's doubles match with Rohan Bopanna stating that he has "become a soft target" and that is the reason why people are "taking potshots" at him. Paes was furious at reports of him not allegedly wanting to share a room with Bopanna and then also going on record about not being allotted room in the Games Village.
Share prices of some recent listings, including the scam-tainted Atlanta Ltd and Nissan Copper, have been falling over the last couple of sessions on fears of further action from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
France winger Franck Ribery's decision to retire from international football after missing the World Cup could lead to a suspension from club football, UEFA president Michel Platini said on Sunday.
A V Metals -- the A V Birla group's Canada-based special purpose vehicle -- will infuse $3.5 billion to finance Hindalco Industries' proposed acquisition of the Atlanta-based aluminium downstream major Novelis Inc.
Three students from United States universities, including Indian girl Tarushi Jain, were among 20 hostages hacked to death by suspected Islamic State militants in a terror attack at a restaurant in Bangladesh capital's high-security diplomatic zone.
Only fellow American Michael Johnson's world record of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is faster than his timing of 19.62 seconds, at the US championships.
Soft drink giant Coca-Cola on Friday announced it will acquire US energy drink maker Glaceau, in which India's Tata Group has 30 per cent stake, for $4.1 billion in cash.
A 17-year-old high school student in the United States has been suspended for a year for alleged sexual harassment after he hugged his teacher. Sam McNair, a student at Duluth High School in Georgia was suspended last week after he was found to have violated the school's rules on sexual harassment.
The young Indian star recently shot with the late actor for The Fast And Furious series' seventh installment.
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