London: Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said that the club will hold talks with forward Didier Drogba about a new contract next week, while also saying that they hope to appoint a permanent manager "sooner rather than later." Drogba, who scored the decisive penalty to defeat Bayern Munich in the shoot-out of the Champions League final on Saturday, is out of contract next month. The 34-year-old Ivory Coast international joined the...
06:51 AM, May 21, 2012
London: Arsenal are confident striker Robin van Persie will sign a new contract at the end of the season and finish his career at the club, manager Arsene Wenger told reporters on Friday. "My desire and my wish is to find an agreement with Robin to extend the contract and [he will] stay with us for [a] longer time... and hopefully we can reach that," Wenger said. "If that would...
09:26 AM, May 05, 2012
Berlin: Schalke 04 forward Raul is to leave at the end of the season when his contract expires, the Bundesliga club said on Thursday. The 34-year-old has been at the Gelsenkirchen club for two seasons, scoring 27 Bundesliga goals in 63 matches. Schalke had made the former Real Madrid and Spain captain an offer to stay, but the club said that he has decided to leave. "He will explain his...
11:53 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill that seeks to regulate government purchases of above Rs 50 lakh through a transparent bidding process. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the public procurement bill that has a provision to debar bidders found engaged in corrupt practices, sources said. Currently, there is no overarching legislation governing public procurement by the central government and central public sector...
01:28 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Bhopal: The Chhattarpur district administration on Sunday cancelled all sand mining contracts in the district after media outrage over IPS officer Narendra Kumar's killing and a second attack on a sub-divisional magistrate and police officials in Panna. IPS officer Narendra Kumar was allegedly crushed to death under a tractor that was loaded with illegally-mined stones in Morena, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar had tried to stop the tractor. The tractor...
12:29 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Barcelona: Pep Guardiola still hasn't decided whether he wants to continue coaching Barcelona beyond this season. The 41-year-old Guardiola, who has won 13 out of a possible 16 titles since taking over the European champions nearly four seasons ago, said he would like to have made a decision already but he remains uncertain. "I would have liked to have made my decision earlier but it still isn't clear to me,"...
11:20 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Kolkata: A woman was on Wednesday arrested for impersonating as personal assistant to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The woman named Seema Malhotra was arrested for impersonating as the personal assistant of the chief minister and promising people contracts in the railways. Police arrested her on the basis of a complaint made by a person whom she had cheated recently. The woman has been arrested earlier as well. ...
11:34 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Country's biggest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday said it has signed a multi-year, multi-million euro contract with European car rental company Europcar for deployment of IT services in France. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. After a rigorous evaluation process, Europcar's IT subsidiary Eurocar Information Services (EIS) selected TCS to manage strategic IT services development for its French operations, TCS said...
08:47 PM, Feb 06, 2012
London: European football's January transfer window closed on Tuesday with clubs reining in the lavish spending of recent years in an apparent response to UEFA's strict new financial controls. While 225 million Pounds were spent last January by English clubs alone, barely 50 million Pounds was outlayed by them this month. "It looks like economically the whole of Europe is becoming a bit more cautious," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said....
11:59 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Paris: Paris Saint-Germain continued their spending spree by signing Brazilian midfielder Thiago Motta from Inter Milan on Tuesday. PSG said that the 29-year-old Motta will be presented at PSG's Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday. No financial details were given, but reports in France and Italy estimated the transfer at 10 million Euros - taking PSG's outlay for the season comfortably over 100 million Euros. The player's represenative, Alessandro Canovi,...
11:15 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Manchester: Manchester United have lured a defensive prospect from Manchester City, with Frederic Veseli switching between the fierce rivals on transfer deadline day on Tuesday. Veseli failed to make a competitive senior appearance for Roberto Mancini's side and moves to Old Trafford with his City contract set to expire in the summer. The 19-year-old Swiss centreback will initially have to impress in United's reserve side to earn a spot in...
09:39 AM, Feb 01, 2012
London: Tottenham signed striker Louis Saha from Premier League rivals Everton and reached a deal to offload Roman Pavlyuchenko to Lokomotiv Moscow in the final hours of the transfer window on Tuesday. Manager Harry Redknapp signed Saha despite the 33-year-old Frenchman scoring just twice in 20 appearances for Everton this season and struggling with injuries in recent years. "He's got good movement, can score goals but probably needs a change,"...
08:41 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Buffalo: Facebook and its founder will try to have a man's lawsuit claiming part ownership of the USD 50 billion social networking website thrown out of court after securing proof the contract on which it's based is fake, a Facebook attorney said. Experts determined that the ink on the document, which Paul Ceglia of New York claims he and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signed in 2003, is less than two...
04:54 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million, 10 times its estimated price, two months after the death of high-profile co-founder Steve Jobs. The contract, sold with another document that removed one of the company's initial three partners after just 11 days, was the subject of fierce bidding by six people taking part in the auction over...
10:14 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 and another document, signed 11 days later, that removed one of the partners are expected to fetch up to $150,000 when they are auctioned next week by Sotheby's. The December 13 auction of books and manuscripts will also include a letter from Franz Kafka complaining of writer's block, a set of cartoons from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner...
10:53 AM, Dec 10, 2011
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