Patna: Adding more speculation to the growing Congress-JD(U) friendship, sources have indicated that the Congress is likely to vote in favour of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the trust vote on Wednesday. Sources say the Congress is keeping its options in the Bihar Assembly open. It is a big day for Nitish Kumar as his party will move a trust vote in the state legislature in what is being...
10:20 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology. The company says the device, at 6.18 mm thick, is the world's slimmest. it weighs just about 120g. The phone has a 5 megapixel front-facing camera, designed for taking "selfies", or pictures of the owner...
10:19 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Mumbai: The BCCI is set to field a second-string team for India's tour of Zimbabwe in July-August, according to a leading Indian daily. India are scheduled to play five ODIs from July 24 to August 3. According to sources in the BCCI, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma and others are likely to be rested. "Some of the top players will not be featuring in...
10:07 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: N Srinivasan might have stepped aside as the BCCI chief taking no part in the day-to-day functioning of the Indian cricket board, but as per a report in a leading daily, Srinivasan will attend the International Cricket Committee's (ICC) annual board conference to be held on June 26 on London. India will oppose the proposed uniform implementation of the Decision Review System (DRS) at the meet and BCCI...
09:59 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Indian movie buffs have loved his action avatar for years, but Hollywood actor Jackie Chan, here for the inauguration of the China Film Festival on Tuesday, showed his jolly side much to the delight of the star-struck audience. He says he is growing old, but it's the audience's love that keeps him going. "Namaste! Please sit down, sit down," Chan told the over-enthusiastic audience, which stood up and...
09:59 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Rotterdam: The Indian women's hockey team put up yet another disappointing show to crash out of the semi-final race with a 1-8 drubbing at the hands of top-ranked Netherlands in the FIH World League Round 3 here. The Indian eves started the match on a bright note and dominated the early exchanges before fizzling out against the Dutch girls late on Tuesday night. It took the hosts 21 minutes to...
09:55 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Haridwar: 7:25 pm: Minister of State for Home RPN Singh speak to CNN-IBN on the flood situation in Uttarakhand. He says the government's primary focus to rescue people who are stuck in the hilly reaches of the state and cannot descend to lower heights. He adds that the conditions are very difficult thought paramilitary is doing its best. He also defends Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's visit to Delhi and...
09:45 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Indian national team captain Sunil Chhetri is conducting a football summer camp at the Ambedkar Stadium and wants kids to learn proper training methods and take the game seriously. ...
09:43 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Mumbai: The rupee recovered by 15 paise to 58.62 against the dollar in early trade on Wednesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on increased selling of the US currency by exporters. However, dollar's strength against other currencies overseas capped the rupee's gain as investors await the conclusion of the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting and a weak opening in the domestic equity market. The rupee sank by a whopping...
09:42 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Paris: Fabio Capello is set to be announced as the new manager of French club Paris Saint-Germain, according to a report in ESPN Soccernet. Current PSG manager Carlo Ancelotti would then be allowed to make his highly-rumoured move to the vacant position at Real Madrid. Current Russia national team boss Capello has been chosen ahead of Tottenham's Andre Villas-Boas, with the young Portuguese coach rumoured to have resisted the French...
09:32 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced more than a dozen sops in the past one year with an eye on the Assembly elections. He's announced everything from laptops, shoes and umbrellas to free mobile phones for over 15,000 farmers. With laptops, mobiles, shoes, umbrellas, blankets, cycles and Re 1 per kg of rice, Patnaik is on a distribution spree in Odisha. Since the aborted coup by his former...
09:30 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Moscow: Indian chess star Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock loss to next World Championship challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fifth round and slipped to the joint seventh spot in the Tal Memorial Tournament here. Playing the last classical game against Carlsen ahead of the World Championship match scheduled in Chennai in November next, Anand could not find any suitable plan and was outplayed by the young Norwegian in...
09:19 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Mumbai: Reversing early losses, the S&P BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday closed 22 points higher on fag-end buying in bluechips including Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank and RIL amid investors awaiting the outcome of the two-day Federal Reserve meeting in the US. Sensex, which had lost 102.59 points in Tuesday's trade, recovered by 22.42 points, or 0.12 per cent, to close at 19,245.70 points. It had moved between 19,100.13 and 19,274.26...
09:14 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Recife, Brazil: Mario Balotelli is so unpredictable that even his coach has trouble keeping tabs on the prized Italy striker. Balotelli's winning goal in the Azzurri's 2-1 win over Mexico at the Confederations Cup was a prime example. The goal showed off Balotelli's combination of brute strength and sheer athleticism. But the AC Milan striker immediately took away some of the moment's lustre by stripping off his shirt, earning a...
09:04 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Eastbourne: Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska slumped to a 7-6 (2), 6-2 defeat by American qualifier Jamie Hampton in the first round at Eastbourne on Tuesday. Radwanska, who won the title in 2008, struggled throughout the match at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Although the Polish player leveled at 5-5 when Hampton served for the first set at 5-4 and then held a set point at 6-5, she was overwhelmed in the tiebreaker...
09:03 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: As the Delhi Metro from the Yamuna Bank station rumbles on every day, something extraordinary takes place under its tracks. Children from the neighbouring slum gather here to let their imagination take over. And helping their dreams take shape is a West Delhi shopkeeper Rajesh Kumar. Rajesh said, "I would regularly see children idly playing in the dirt in the area. I asked their parents why weren't they...
09:02 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New York: Chinese network equipment and cellphone maker Huawei Technologies said it "has no plans to acquire Nokia", responding to a Financial Times report that it would consider buying the Finish phone maker. The denial came from Huawei's vice president for external affairs, Bill Plummer. The story on the FT website on Tuesday had quoted the head of Huawei's consumer business, Richard Yu, as saying: "We are considering these sorts...
08:45 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Milan: Months after the shocking revelations of the AgustaWestland bribery case, Finmeccanica ex-CEO Giuseppe Orsi's trial begins on Wednesday. A CBI team will also be attending the trial in Milan. Orsi and the CEO of its chopper unit Bruno Spagnoli, will go on trial on Wednesday in a Milan court. Orsi was arrested on February 12 on charges of international corruption, bribery and billing fraud over the sale of 12...
08:41 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Seattle: Google asked the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds. In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregate number of national security requests it receives, including disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), claiming it as part of its First Amendment...
08:40 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Recife: Italy midfielder Daniele De Rossi picked out Japan's Shinji Kagawa as the dangerman for his side ahead of their Confederations Cup match on Wednesday. "I only know three or four Japanese players and the most talked about is the one that plays for Manchester United, Kagawa, he is the star," De Rossi told reporters on Tuesday. "I think they are well organised and I think that means they will...
08:37 AM, Jun 19, 2013
