New Delhi: Pakistan Tehreek-i Insaaf (PTI) chief and legendary cricketer Imran Khan came out strongly against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday, saying that he must step down immediately. Khan was speaking in the aftermath of the Pakistan Supreme Court indicting Gilani for contempt of court over his failure to act on its orders hauling up President Asif Ali Zardari in money laundering cases. "PM Gilani must step...
03:06 PM, Feb 13, 2012
London: Andy Murray is hoping to defend his Queen's Club title in June as a grass-court warm-up for Wimbledon and the London Olympics. Murray has won the Queen's tournament twice in the last three years, and is trying to become the first Briton since 1925 to lift the trophy for a third time. Wimbledon begins a week after Queen's, which starts June 11. The Olympic tennis tournament will also be...
02:46 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai, Last week was indeed flat and positive with NIFTY gaining back almost all that it had lost during the first few days. Immense fund flow clubbed with retail participation helped NIFTY to move above 5400, hinting that the markets are entering another bull phase. NIFTY is on a consolidation mode and it is having a base at 5325 and 5250. The resistance for the NIFTY will be at 5450...
02:27 PM, Feb 13, 2012
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said on Monday that the Congress was protecting its Law Minister, Salman Khurshid by not taking any action against him. "If the Law Minister does not respect the law, who will? No action has been taken against the minister despite the EC's complaint," he said. ...
02:16 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi, With passenger fares on a freeze for years and little money to expand the world's second largest railroad network under a single management, Minister Dinesh Trivedi has an unenviable task when he presents the annual Railway Budget on March 14. Poor financial management over the past few years has left Indian Railways staring at an earnings shortfall of Rs.7,000 crore despite gross budgetary support of Rs.20,000 crore last...
02:10 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: As political parties battle it out to capture the control of Mumbai's civic administration, the city's neglected waterfronts are back on priority, being poised for a makeover. But the question is whether plans to transform the island's coast's will ever become a reality. The world's biggest cities including New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo are often defined by their popular waterfronts. Mumbai's 60-km long coastline on the other hand...
01:56 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: In what could be a potential embarrassment for the Congress, Priyanka Gandhi said on Monday that Salman Khurshid was "free" to express his opinions and so was the Election Commission. Referring to the ongoing row between the Union Law Minister and the Election Commission over a Muslim sub-quota remark that he made during a rally in the state, Priyanka said that people were free to express their feelings...
01:50 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: India's long-serving boxing coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu expects two more of his wards to make the cut for London Olympics from the Asian qualifying event in April after four of them booked their berths in last year's World Championships. Four Indian boxers - L Devendro Singh (49kg), Jai Bhagwan (60kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Vikas Krishan (69kg) - qualified for the Games by making the quarterfinals of the...
01:48 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: According to a DigitTimes report, Acer will launch CloudMobile, its first smartphone equipped with its cloud computing service, Acer Cloud, in the third quarter of 2012, following the launch of Acer Cloud in the greater China and North America markets in the second quarter of 2012. The CloudMobile will reportedly be powered by Android 4.1 OS, and include a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and a 4.3-inch HD touch screen....
01:40 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Check out the latest song from Vidya Balan's upcoming movie 'Kahaani'. Vishal and Shekhar have directed the music for this film. The first song released by the team was 'Ami Shotti Bolchi Kolkata' sung by Usha Uthup. Sujoy Ghosh's new film 'Kahaani' has an unusual storyline. A pregnant Vidya Balan scours the city of Kolkata looking for her husband -- a man no one seems to have heard...
01:34 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood celebrities and singers expressed grief over the sudden demise of legendary singer Whitney Houston, terming it as "a great loss" to the music industry. Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu took to Twitter to remember the 'I Will Always Love You' singer. Priyanka, who will be attending the Grammy Awards for the first time tonight, said, "LA bound... the Grammys will be sad... Such...
01:18 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Almost everybody CNN-IBN asked at the Grammys Red Carpet, said he or she would love to come to 'magnificent' India. The fans of India included iconic crooner Tony Bennett, hotel heiress Paris Hilton and Rihanna. ...
01:17 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Bangalore: Three former Karnataka Ministers on Monday sought a week's extension to file reply to the showcause notices issued by Speaker KG Bopaiah on the porn-watching episode in the Legislative Assembly. The three, Lakshman S Savadi, CC Patil and J Krishna Palemar sent a letter to the Legislative Assembly Secretariat in this regard. They were last week directed by the Speaker to file the reply by Monday. Assembly Secretary P...
01:13 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: A tragic testimony to the city's fervour during election campaigning was witnessed on Sunday. Four loyalists of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) died and 11 supporters suffered minor injuries after one of the followers waving a flag hoisted to a metal rod touched a live high-tension wire during canvassing for NCP at New Shivaji Nagar in Kalwa on Sunday at 10.30 am. Supporters were drumming up support for corporator...
01:11 PM, Feb 13, 2012
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