May 18, 1997
MADURAI, May 17: ATENSE situation prevailed in Sattur and Kamarajar towns in Madurai district after a 45-year-old Congress functionary, Kar...
May 15, 1997
NEWARK: A 13-year-old Indian boy prohibited from playing in a soccer match in New Jersey because he was wearing a turban will get to rejoin...
CALCUTTA, May 14: Former national junior champion, Arjun Singh returned a card of 80 and was in the joint eighth position after the first r...
May 14, 1997
DALLAS: Tiger Woods delighted a group of giggling teen girls at a youth golf clinic here with a major announcement he is not dating anyone....
Hundreds of Kalki devotees gathered at Satyalok on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border on Monday hoping for a glimpse of the godman. CHEN...
May 13, 1997
TEHRAN, May 12: More than 4,000 people were killed in Saturday's earthquake in eastern Iran, state television said today.The television bro...
Fire destroys terrace before gameBUCHAREST: Fire destroyed a bank of terracing at Romanian champions Steaua Bucharest's ground just before ...
CORAL SPRINGS, May 12: Fourth seed Jason Stoltenberg of Australia retained his America's Red Clay tennis championship title against top-see...
Mumbai team win kho-kho tournamentJALGAON: Sangli's Samrat Krida Mandal and Nasik's Rachana Sports Club lifted the first Municipal Council ...
May 12, 1997
FUKUOKA, (JAPAN), May 11: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today said that Indian markets were still "highly distorted" and the e...
Computer gian IBM has developed a new formula for encrypting sensitive data transmitted on the Internet which it says will be nearly imposs...
Taiwan's Huang Chun Hsiung slam dunks in the basketball match against Japan in the East Asian Games in Pusan. Taiwan won 79-47. Muster's ...
Prime Minister I K Gujral at the Delhi airport before boarding the aircraft that took him to Male for the SAARC summit. MALE, May 11: Ind...
May 10, 1997
PARIS: Martina Hingis, who injured her knee falling off a horse last month, says she expects to be fit for the French Open. The injury forc...
JERUSALEM, May 9: The United States Middle East envoy Dennis Ross appeared to be making little progress in his latest mission to revive Isr...
May 9, 1997
KARACHI, May 8: A Pakistan Air Force Mirage jet dropped two fuel tanks over Karachi to avoid a crash today causing a fire that killed at le...
May 8, 1997
LONDON, May 7: Anglo-Dutch food to consumer products group Unilever Plc said on Wednesday it agreed to sell its international speciality ch...
ROME, May 7: Monica seles swept into the third round of the Italian Open here yesterday, but the tournament came to an abrupt end for fello...
May 7, 1997
MANCHESTER: The risk that a breakaway circuit separate from the one run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is increasing, ...
NEW DELHI: Flyweight boxer N G Dingko Singh won a gold in his maiden appearance abroad in the 21st King's Cup Boxing Championships at Bangk...
May 6, 1997
A BEST player lunges forward in an effort to win a duel for possession with Fr Agnel's (Balbhavan) in the Bhiwandiwala Cup tournament at th...
CALCUTTA: The Indian cricket team for the first match of the forthcoming four-nation Independence Cup limited overs cricket tournament will...
MANCHESTER, May 5: Jan-Ove Waldner BEAT vLADIMIR sAMSONOV 21-12, 21-17, 21-13 to win the men's singles title at the Table Tennis World Cham...
NEW DELHI, May 5: The Supreme Court today suggested granting of limited autonomy to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in order to e...
May 5, 1997
SHEFFIELD: Six-times champion Stephen Hendry of Scotland beat Thai James Wattana 17-13 yesterday to reach the World Snooker Championship fi...
