New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday is expected to probe the complaints of threat made by the victim in the IPL molestation case involving Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player Luke Pomersbach. The victim, an American national, had said that five people, including three IPL players, had threatened her to drop the case against Pomersbach. The police will also question a Mumbai-based businessman, said to be a key witness in...
07:44 AM, May 21, 2012
"The boys played good cricket," Sangakkara said after his side finished eighth in the IPL this season. ...
10:36 PM, May 20, 2012
Royal Challengers Bangalore faltered at the final hurdle, losing to Deccan Chargers by nine runs to finish fifth in IPL 5 and put Chennai through. ...
08:02 PM, May 20, 2012
Melbourne: Tennis Australia says two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton Hewitt, currently ranked 178th, and rising star Ashleigh Barty have been awarded wildcards into the main draw of the French Open. Tennis Australia said in a statement on Wednesday that Hewitt, who had foot surgery in February, has made a speedier than expected recovery and has been training well on clay. The 31-year-old former world number one won the US Open...
08:40 AM, May 16, 2012
Gurkeerat Singh's 29 off 12 balls helped Punjab score 16 in the last over to beat Deccan by four wickets. ...
12:01 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Google+ has announced to roll out its 'Hangouts On Air' feature to all Google+ users worldwide. This feature lets Google Plus users to go live in front of a global audience. By checking "Enable Hangouts On Air," users can broadcast their live hangouts " from their Google+ streams, YouTube channels or websites " to the entire world. During the broadcast, users can actually look inside the hangout to...
12:39 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Newspaper advertisements of the film 'Jannat 2' showing actor Emraan Hashmi smoking a cigarette violated anti-tobacco laws, an NGO said Thursday pointing to the violation. In a letter to the health ministry and the information and broadcasting ministry, HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) pointed to 'blatant violations of the rules' in the print advertisements. "These ads, showing Hashmi smoking, have been published in supplements of leading...
04:17 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: An association of leading news channels has stoutly opposed the telecom regulator's decision to allow Multi System Operators (MSOs) to collect carriage fees from broadcasters and has asked the Government to review it. Reacting to the new regulations set by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) said that it is "shocked and dismayed at TRAI's new Notification dated 30.4.12 on digitising cable...
07:44 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The 12th Plan document, which seeks to raise annual economic growth rate to 9 per cent during the five-year period (2012-17), may not be ready for the implementation by September as envisaged earlier. "It would be difficult to have 12th Plan document ready by September as many working groups have not submitted their final reports to their respective divisions," a source said. At present many working groups set...
01:33 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Mumbai: Naxals on Thursday killed two people and abducted 10 others from Marke village in Gadchiroli district. Naxals are demanding that the CRPF should be withdrawn from the area and that Operation Green Hunt should be halted. The incident comes hours after BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka was released on Thursday after 32 days. ...
02:40 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: In trouble for the television broadcast of Vidya Balan-starrer 'The Dirty Picture', the Information and Broadcast Ministry has told Sony TV that it can air the film only after prime time, that's post 11 pm. Sony was scheduled to telecast the film at noon and 8 pm on Sunday. This after the High Court had cleared the film after 58 cuts and issued it a U/A certificate. The...
02:10 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has acquitted a teacher accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, observing that the girl had consented to the act. The Nagpur bench of the High Court was hearing an appeal filed by Chandrashekar Meshram against the 2004 order of the sessions court, which had held him guilty of rape and sentenced him to seven years in jail. According to the prosecution, Meshram took the girl...
09:26 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Mumbai: US-based Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a Time Warner company, has decided to shut its Hindi general entertainment channel 'Imagine TV' in India as poor ratings hampered any further investment in it, a senior company official said. Turner had bought a majority stake in the channel from Indian broadcaster NDTV in 2009 for $117 million. The channel's India and international feed 'Imagine Dil Se', which will be shut with effect...
04:07 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Washington DC: The Indian Embassy in the US was on Tuesday evacuated following a bomb threat. However, all the employees of the embassy were reported to be safe. The authorities conducted searches in the buildings of both the Indian embassy as well as the consulate in Mass Avenue, downtown Washington DC. Reacting to the incident, Indias Ambassador to US, Nirupama Rao, said that an anonymous called had claimed to have...
10:25 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Washington: A controversy-prone former mayor has landed himself in a soup again, this time for his remarks targeting "dirty" Asian shops in his poor black-majority district, a racial slur that invited all-round criticism. Washington DC Councilman Marion Barry, 76, who just after winning a primary on Tuesday declared that "we got to do something about these Asians" had to apologise quickly after his comments ignited anger. Addressing his victory rally...
10:06 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Gadchiroli: Two more tribals were killed allegedly by the Naxals in the Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra taking the toll to 44 in the last one year. Just last week, 12 CRPF men died in a Naxal attack in Gadchiroli. The question is whether tribals are increasingly being caught in the crossfire. 25-year-old Sharad Kata was forcibly taken from his home in Maharashtra's 'Naxal capital' Gadchiroli and was later shot dead....
09:59 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday confirmed the post-mortem report of Ministry of Defence official Kumar Yashkar Sinha, saying that he died due to burning, while his wife, Archana was strangulated to death. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said, "The post-mortem report reveals that Archana was strangulated to death. She received other injuries while she was being strangulated. "Kumar Yashkar Sinha died due to burning..." The spokesman added, "It...
06:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The autopsy report of Defence Ministry official Kumar Yashkar Sinha says Kumar Yashkar died of suffocation due to burns. The Delhi Police have received the report. Preliminary medical investigations had suggested that no external or internal injuries other than burn injuries were found on the victim. The police are now probing if Yashkar was under any sort of financial burden other than the work pressure. The police are...
04:02 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The post-mortem report of Defence Ministry official Kumar Yashkar Sinha is expected on Tuesday. Yashkar and his wife were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their house on Friday. The post-mortem report of his wife confirmed that she was strangled to death. Yashkar's body was found charred. Earlier on Tuesday, the brother of Kumar Yashkar alleged foul play and ruled out that marital differences could have brought this...
09:25 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Delhi: There has been another twist in the mysterious death of Defence Ministry official Kumar Yashkar Sinha and his wife Archana Sharma in South Delhi last week. The brother of Kumar Yashkar has alleged foul play and ruled out that marital differences could have brought this about as the couple was happily married. The police are awaiting the post mortem report. Kumar Yashkar's wife Archana had sustained head injury as...
01:22 PM, Apr 02, 2012
