Young Aussie player Marsh has been sent home from the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane for disciplinary reasons. ...
03:44 PM, Jul 07, 2012
The Saba Karim Genesis Pro Cricket Centre was inaugurated by Virender Sehwag on Friday. ...
03:45 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Bhopal: Indore-based Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), a Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) facility, has played a major role in the supply of vital parts for Large Hadron Collider of European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). The scientists at CERN on Wednesday claimed to have spotted a sub-atomic particle "consistent" with the Higgs boson or 'God particle', believed to be a crucial building block that led to the...
09:34 AM, Jul 05, 2012
AGARTALA DISPUR NAGPUR AHMEDABAD GANGTOK PANAJI (GOA) AIZWAL HYDERABAD PATNA ALIGARH IMPHAL PORT BLAIR ALLAHABAD ITANAGAR RAIPUR AURANGABAD JAIPUR RANCHI BANGALORE JAMMU SAMBALPUR BAREILLY JODHPUR SHILLONG BHOPAL JORHAT SHIMLA CHANDIGARH KOCHI SRINAGAR CHENNAI KOHIMA THIRUVANANTHAPURAM CUTTACK KOLKATA TIRUPATI DEHRADUN LUCKNOW UDAIPUR DELHI MADURAI VISHAKHAPATNAM DHARWAR MUMBAI The centres mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the commission. In such case the commission will inform the admitted...
03:42 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted Nagaland on Sunday, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. The temblor struck at 9:44 am on Sunday. The epicentre of the quake was located at Phek in Nagaland. Tremors were also felt along Indo-Myanmar border region. There are no reports of any casualties and damages so far. ...
11:31 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Guwahati: A tremor of mild intensity on Sunday shook parts of Assam but there was no report of any casualty or damage. The Indian Meteorological Centre in Shillong is yet to give the exact intensity of the earthquake on the Richter Scale, sources said. The epicentre of the quake was located at Majuli island in upper Assam. Tremors were also felt in parts of lower Assam, officials said. A report...
10:52 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Beijing: A 6.6-magnitude quake jolted China's Xinjiang Uygur region early Saturday, injuring at least 35 people and affecting over 64,500 others. The temblor also killed over 2,000 livestock due to collapsed sheds while a large number of houses were toppled, Xinhua reported. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC), the temblor's epicentre was located in a mountainous area along the border of Hejing and Xinyuan counties. The quake, which...
09:16 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Bangalore: SK Shivakumar, Distinguished Scientist and Associate Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore, assumed the office of Director, ISAC on Saturday. He took over the charge from Dr TK Alex, the outgoing Director. ISAC is ISRO's premier centre for conceptualisation, design, fabrication, testing, integration and in-orbit commissioning of satellite systems involving various cutting edge technologies, an ISRO release stated. Shivakumar began his carrier in ISRO by joining ISRO Telemetry, Tracking...
08:05 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Wimbledon: The Centre Court roof at Wimbledon closed Friday just as the sky was clearing up, and three matches were then played indoors without any rain falling outside. A day earlier, the roof was shut in dry weather as well, causing a 45-minute suspension after the fourth set of Rafael Nadal's stunning second-round loss to ensure the match could be completed under the lights as darkness fell. Those decisions have...
08:20 AM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee has come a long way from his village Mirali in West Bengal to the seat of power in New Delhi. The ex-finance minister's acceptability to parties cutting across the political spectrum can be attributed to his greatest strength which lies in consensus-building. He is someone who has always insisted that consensus is the most important thing in a coalition government even if it meant...
07:27 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that "Congress government" at the Centre was trying to dilute the Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir. "The official attempt of the congress government to dilute Indian position on Kashmir is an issue of grave concern," Modi said. He was speaking at a function to mark the death anniversary of Dr Syama Prasad Mukerjee, founder of erstwhile Jan Sangh. "Let us...
12:53 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Srinagar: A year after the Jammu and Kashmir government cracked down on sex determination centres, CNN-IBN has learnt that many of them have opened up again. In 2011, year when census figures had revealed the declining numbers of the girl child, the state government had come down heavily on the diagnostic centres suspected of conducting sex determination tests. A year later these clinics have started to open slowly prompting questions...
03:25 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government is expected to file a reply in the Bombay High Court on Wednesday regarding a PIL against hike in petrol prices. The court had last week sought a response from the Centre, Petroleum and Finance Ministries on a PIL that claims the hike was illegal as it wasn't endorsed by Parliament. The PIL, filed by Rajendra Phanse, submitted that the petrol prices were hiked abruptly on...
09:09 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Washington: Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the US with Indian Americans leading them all in their levels of income and education, according to a new survey. Seven in 10 Indian-American adults ages 25 and older have a college degree, compared with about half of Americans of Korean, Chinese, Filipino and Japanese ancestry, and about a quarter of Vietnamese Americans, according to the Pew Research...
01:31 AM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Delhi on Tuesday. There were no reports of any casualty or damage. The quake, epicentred at Jhajjar in Haryana, was felt at 7:30 pm, the MeT Department said. ...
11:00 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Mumbai: After more than a month on the run, the Doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortions and female foeticide in Maharashtra's Beed district finally surrendered on Sunday. Doctors Sadam and Saraswati Munde will be produced in court on Monday. The Bombay High Court had rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had reported last week how the doctor duo was allegedly responsible for mass female foeticide had managed...
06:36 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortion cases in Beed on Sunday surrendered before police. Sadam Munde and his wife surrendered in Parali police station. Earlier, the Bombay High Court rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had exposed how illegal abortions and female foeticide were rampant in Beed district of Maharashtra. ...
09:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New York: President Barack Obama stopped at the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York and inscribed the final beam in the rebuilt World Trade Center with the words: "We remember." Obama and his wife Michelle Obama - who came to New York to attend re-election campaign fund raisers hosted by showbiz personalities - joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris...
11:11 AM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: In a blow to the farmers, the price of urea which is used in fertilisers is set to go up by 10 per cent. The government has planned to reduce the subsidies. A panel, led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, had last year approved a new draft urea policy, which proposed partial freeing of retail prices, allowing companies to hike urea prices by 10 per cent in the...
06:13 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Patekar girls, the eldest 12 and the youngest only one, left to fend for themselves. Their mother 28-year-old Vijaymala Patekar hemorrhaged to death on the operating table last month. She was pregnant with her fifth girl child. The girls' father was arrested. After CNN-IBN highlighted Vijaymala's case and the recovery of several foetuses in Beed, the state government stepped in. The girls have been taken under the state...
09:21 AM, Jun 12, 2012
