
New Delhi: After various complaints by students across the country of glitches on the University Grants Commission (UGC) website, the higher education body has decided to extend the last date for the submission of the National Eligibility Test (NET) application to May 10, 2012. The first-ever fully objective-type NET is scheduled to be held on June 24. A notice on the UGC website says: "Due to unprecedented increase in the...

01:17 PM, May 02, 2012

New Delhi: Saturday is the last day for Kingfisher Chairman Vijay Mallya to pay up at least Rs 9 crores out of the remaining Rs 60 crore service tax dues. Failure to make the payment on time might lead to their accounts being frozen again. Income Tax authorities defroze the troubled airlines' accounts in February after Mallya paid up dues worth Rs 20 crores. A section of employees of the...

07:27 AM, Apr 07, 2012

New Delhi: Odisha government on Monday resumed talks with negotiators to end the hostage crisis after Naxal leader Sabyasachi Panda issued an ultimatum, threatening to kill Italian tourist Bosusco Paulo if the Naveen Patnaik government fails to fulfill their demands. Panda on Monday released a fresh audio tape. He said that the Odisha government had not made it clear as to what demands they had agreed to meet. Panda further...

08:04 AM, Apr 03, 2012

New Delhi: Naxal leader Sabyasachi Panda has reportedly issued a fresh audio tape regarding the abducted Italian nationals and set Tuesday evening as the new deadline for the state government to respond. The message in the tape says that the two Italian tourists are safe and are being fed well. The Naxals have also announced a unilateral ceasefire and urged the odisha government to declare the halt of all operations...

07:17 AM, Mar 20, 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

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

Manchester: Manchester City have added experience to their midfield for the Premier League title run-in by signing Chile international David Pizarro on loan from Roma for the rest of the season. The 32-year-old Pizarro played under City manager Roberto Mancini when both were at Inter Milan, before joining Roma in 2006. He won the Serie A title, the Italian Super Cup and Coppa Italia with Inter. City manager Roberto Mancini...

09:16 AM, Feb 01, 2012

London: Queens Park Rangers signed French striker Djibril Cisse from Lazio and Bobby Zamora from Premier League rivals Fulham on January transfer window deadline day on Tuesday. The 30-year-old former Liverpool and Marseille player, Cisse has joined the Premier League strugglers on a 2--year deal. QPR manager Mark Hughes said Cisse is "a huge threat to opposition's defences. He's got great pace, power and movement and that's something we will...

09:01 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

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the tendering process for the Monorail project was going on well. Delivering his customary address at the on-going session, the Governor said, Towards the goal of achieving an Integrated Multi-Modal Urban Transportation System in Chennai, I am happy to note that the process of tendering to establish a Monorail system is progressing well. According to official sources,...

08:25 AM, Jan 31, 2012

Tirunelveli: An anti-nuclear forum spearheading the stir against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday staged a demonstration in a coastal village near the site in protest against moves to get it commissioned. Organisers of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy said PMANE activists staged the demonstration at Chettikulam after coming in a procession from Perumanalpuram. Both villages are about five km from the KNPP site. PMANE convenor SP Udayakumar and...

04:14 AM, Jan 27, 2012

Islamabad: The Pakistani judicial panel probing the memo scandal on Tuesday gave the controversial American businessman Mansoor Ijaz a final opportunity to depose before it on February 9 after the star witness failed to appear for the second time citing security concerns. The three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court issued the direction after Interior Minister Rehman Malik appeared before the commission this afternoon and gave an assurance that full...

08:42 PM, Jan 24, 2012

Chennai: With protests bringing work to a standstill, atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd's hopes of commissioning the first 1,000 MW unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu by the extended deadline of March 2012 may not fructify, an official said. Nor is it possible to accelerate the completion of the second unit so that it can be commissioned first, they say....

01:03 PM, Nov 17, 2011

Sampa, wife of Indian sailor speaks to CNN-IBN. ...

09:13 PM, Mar 09, 2011

Relatives of sailors held hostage on the MV Iceberg protested near Parliament. ...

08:24 PM, Mar 09, 2011