Germany 1-2 Italy: Balotelli double sets up Spain final

The enigmatic striker has come through on the big stage, with two well-taken first half goals leading the Azzurri into the Euro final for the first time since 2000

A brilliant performance from Mario Balotelli has driven Italy into the Euro 2012 final, after a 2-1 win over Germany at the National Stadium in Warsaw on Thursday. 

The Manchester City forward has hit the headlines for all the right reasons, opening the scoring with a powerful header before smashing home an emphatic second to

Pakistan Appoints a Prime Minister

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ousted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his cabinet for failure to comply with an earlier court ruling demanding a corruption probe into President Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the PPP.

Another court on Thursday then blocked the PPP's first selection to succeed Mr. Gilani by issuing an arrest warrant against the new candidate for drug-related charges. The court also issued a

Yeddyurappa gets advance bail in illegal mining case

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted conditional anticipatory bail to former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and three of his family members in an illegal mining case holding that the allegations in the Central Bureau of Investigation FIR are “not something new”.

Besides Mr. Yeddyurappa, his sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijendra, and son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar secured relief after a CBI court rejected their bail plea on June 13, 2012.

In his order, Justice Subash B. Adi said the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) report on illegal mining on the basis of which the

CHIEF MINISTER IN SWAN A HAWNG

Sorkar tha, mipuite banphak leh mawhphur ngam, e-Governance kan neih theihna tura Central sorkar National e-Governance Plan zulzuia buatsaih, State Wide Area Network (SWAN) chu vawiin khan Chief Minister Pu Lal Thanhawla chuan Information Communication Technology office-ah a hawng.

SWAN hawnna inkhawm Assembly Annexe conference room a buatsaihah, Chief Minister chuan Mizoram chu India a SWAN nei state 28 te zinga a tel ve ta chu a lawmawm hle a ni a ti a. Khawvel ram thang chak takah Information Technology hmang

Gas crisis boosts sales of infrared, charcoal stoves in Mizoram

AIZAWL: Acute scarcity of cooking gas has hit Mizoram extremely hard as people are struggling to cook a day's meal. Alternative cooking devices have started selling like hot cakes with the perpetual scarcity of cooking gas.

Theft of LPG cylinders have become more common than theft of mobile handsets and laptops and with the value of cooking gas increasing, theft cases have also increased, police said.

A number of restaurants had to close down due to cooking gas shortage while some private hospitals, including the Greenwood Hospital, were forced to

Mizoram Presbyterian church snaps US ties over gay stand

AIZAWL: The Presbyterian Church of Mizoram, the largest church denomination in the Christian-dominated state, has decided to snap ties with the Presbyterian Church of theUnited States of America due to a conflict on the issue of homosexuality. A meeting of the Synod Executive Committee (SEC), the second-highest decision-making body of the Presbyterian Church, made the decision on Friday after the Presbyterian Church of USA allowed ordination of gays as priests.

D P Biakkhuma, a church elder and secretary of the SEC, told TOI on Monday that the two Presbyterian churches have maintained cordial relations for more than a decade, but the Mizoram chapter was compelled to sever ties due to differences on

Muslim girl can marry at 15 if she attains puberty: Delhi Court

New Delhi: Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her matrimonial house.

"This Court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl can marry without the consent of her parents once she attains the age of puberty and she has the right to

UNION FINANCE MINISTER HOVIN HMARCHHAK CHIEF MINISTER TE MEETING

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hovin North East Chief Minister ten vawiin khan New Delhi-ah sum harsatna leh mamawh chungchangah meeting an nei.

Meeting-ah hian Chief Minister Pu Lal Thanhawla chuan State dang Chief Minister te rualin Mizoramin sum lama harsatna a neih te leh mamawh a neihte a sawichhuak a. Mizoramin sum harsatna a tawh mekte hi Finance Commission thar apiangin harsatna dik tak kan thlen thin te a haider luih zel thin vang a ni a ti a. Hei hian Non Plan Sector ah harsatna