New Delhi- A 35-year-old man died in a local hospital late Monday, 19 days after he was exposed to radioactive material in a scrap market in New Delhi. Doctors have said the patient suffered from a multi-organ failure.Doctors at the premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
BJP moves privilege motion against PM
Fifty BJP MPs on Tuesday tabled a breach of privilege notice in Lok Sabha against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for announcing outside Parliament his decision to reject setting up of a joint parliamentary committee on the issue of alleged phone tapping. The MPs submitted the petition to Lok Sabha...
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US Republicans block debate of finance rules reform
US Republican senators have blocked moves to start debating a bill to introduce the most significant reforms to financial regulations for 60 years.Needing 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate to begin debating the bill, Democratic leaders fell three votes short. Democratic Senator Ben Nelson joined 39...
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BlackBerry unveils new Bold and Pearl smartphones
Toronto, April 27 (IANS) BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Monday launched another smartphone – called BlackBerry Bold 9650 – to add another device to its premier Bold brand. The company also unveiled the new BlackBerry Pearl 3G, its smallest smartphone yet. “The new BlackBerry Bold 9650...
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Monday, April 26, 2010
I was misquoted on anti-Sikh riots: Gadkari
Nagpur: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Monday said he has not given any clean chit to the Congress in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots."I have not said any such thing and I have been quoted out of context," he said here.Gadkari was reacting to a radio report in which he was quoted as sayig that some people...
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Chidambaram denies authorising phone tapping
New Delhi: The Government on Monday "categorically" denied it had authorised the tapping of phones of key political leaders.Amid a furore over the issue in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government had investigated the matter but found "nothing to substantiate" the allegations...
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Chidambaram denies authorising phone tapping
New Delhi: The Government on Monday "categorically" denied it had authorised the tapping of phones of key political leaders.Amid a furore over the issue in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government had investigated the matter but found "nothing to substantiate" the allegations...
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Chirayu Amin appointed interim IPL chairman
Mumbai: Baroda Cricket Association president Chirayu Amin was on Monday unanimously appointed as the interim commissioner of the Indian Premier League after Lalit Modi was suspended late last night...
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New chief Amin gets ready to clean up IPL
Mumbai: Newly-appointed IPL Commissioner Chirayu Amin said Monday his immediate priority is to clean up the Twenty20 league, which has been rattled by a massive financial scandal.Amin replaced the...
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No reply by PM on phone tapping; LS adjourned
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday as the Opposition continued its protests over reports that politicians' phones were tapped by government agencies. Prime Minister Manmohan...
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Attend parliament: Meira Kumar tells Alagiri
New Delhi: The perpetual absence of Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, M K Alagiri from the parliament is turning into a big embarrassment for the UPA government.It is learnt that Lok Sabha...
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IPL gets new chief, fresh start, waits to try Modi
Mumbai: Chirayu Amin, businessman and low-profile cricket administrator, was made interim chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday. His task--and the BCCI's too--would to get the league out...
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A horse that is just 14 inches tall
LONDON: A pint-sized stallion born in Britain weighs just 2.7 kg and is barely 14 inches tall. The three-day old stallion, called Einstein, weighed 6lbs (2.7 kg) when it was born on Friday in Barnstead, New Hampshire, Daily Mail reported Monday. ...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Steve Davis rolls back the years to complete epic 13-11 victory over defending champion John Higgins
Steve Davis, who won the last of his six snooker world titles 21 years ago, inflicted one of the biggest upsets the tournament has ever seen by defeating defending champion John Higgins at The Crucible.Golden...
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Akki-Ash to do lock & key act
Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replayy’ is a film that’s going to replay the old acts and lives, through Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai. The film, which is based on a time machine saga, includes a song that gives...
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Brilliant Bangalore in Champions League
Mumbai: A peerless show by the Royal Challengers Bangalore saw the Deccan Chargers being thrashed by nine wickets at the DY Patil Stadium on Saturday. With this emphatic win, Bangalore book their spot...
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Tharoor has a stake in Kochi IPL team: Lalit Modi
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Saturday fired another salvo at Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor.In a no-holds barred interview to Headlines Today, Modi said, Tharoor is lying, and he is sure that Rendezvouos Sports have a hidden agenda.He cast aspersions on Tharoor saying, "He (Tharoor)...
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Ancelotti backs Spurs for title push
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti says Tottenham will challenge for the Premier League title next season as he prepares for Saturday's trip to White Hart Lane.Spurs are gunning for a top-four finish along...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
18 killed in Thailand violence
Fierce clashes between Thai troops and protesters in Bangkok claimed at least 18 lives and injured 807, government sources said on Sunday. ...
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PM-Obama talks to focus on nuke liability bill, Pak, Afghan
The controversial nuclear liability bill, US arms supplies to Pakistan and situation in Afghanistan are expected to figure prominently at the meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will have with President...
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'Indian education doesn't allow critical thinking'
370)this.width=370">Sumita Vaid DixitRaju Narisetti, managing editor, The Washington Post, began his professional career by selling cheese and butter for a dairy cooperative but soon realised that...
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BJP's 30th anniversary event held sans Sushma, Advani
New Delhi: The 30th anniversary celebration of BJP held here on Tuesday was a dull affair with two of its most prominent faces -- Parliamentary Party Chairman L K Advani and Leader of Opposition in Lok...
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Water theft: MNS workers beat people
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers are on a rampage once again. Making a mockery of the Ashok Chavan government's law and order machinery, groups of MNS activists have been going around the state capital beating up people for allegedly stealing water. Mumbai's water woes have become a political...
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Two Army troopers held for raping teenager in Pune
A teenaged girl has been allegedly raped by two army jawans when she went to a remote spot in Pune to meet her boyfriend, a week after a married women was gangraped by three people in the city suburb. The jawans, who allegedly beat her boyfriend and committed the crime on Wednesday night, were arrested...
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Apple's iPad unearthed: Samsung, LG appear
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Luke Soules was one of the first on the planet to get his hands on an iPad. And he wasted no time taking it apart.After staking out three locations in the Eastern United...
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India imports 3 mn tonnes of sugar so far this season
India, the world's largest sugar consumer, has imported over 3 million tonnes of the sweetener in the first six months of the 2009-10 sugar season, ending in September."Sugar mills and private traders have contracted to import 3.1 million tonnes in the current season till March 25," a senior Food Ministry...
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Liberty Shoes to add 60 outlets this fiscal
Footwear firm Liberty Shoes plans to open 60 outlets, including 10 overseas stores, this fiscal, a top company official said."We plan to open 50 outlets pan-India, primarily in Tier II destinations which will take our network-strength to 550 by end-this fiscal. Besides, we plan to open 10 outlets overseas...
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IIM-Calcutta hikes fees by 50 per cent
The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has decided to hike fees for its flagship post-graduate course, but reduced its intake of students citing lack of infrastructure.
The IIM-C board...
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