Mohali: The door is closing down slowly and gradually for Kings XI Punjab as they seek their fifth win of the season against a top-favourite Royal Challengers Bangalore in match 51 of the IPL 6 at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Monday. Punjab are still quite a distant away from the top four and a win is a necessary tonic to make things easier for them. However, it might...
08:42 PM, May 05, 2013
I have been reading a lot of debut authors lately. Some of them are good and most of them are not so good. Not trying to discourage anyone here but after reading some of the books, I felt that writing a book has become a fad more than a passion these days. Still, whenever I pick up a book by a debut author, I keep my prejudices and expectations aside...
08:26 PM, May 01, 2013
Rome: A man was arrested on Sunday after shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Italian prime minister's office in central Rome, police said. One of the wounded law enforcers had been shot in the neck and was in a serious condition, a police official said. The shootings took place as Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new cabinet was being sworn in at the president's palace around one kilometre away....
03:42 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Rome: Italian centre-left politician Enrico Letta named a coalition government on Saturday, making one of Silvio Berlusconi's closest allies deputy prime minister and ending two months of damaging political stalemate. Letta has said his priorities would be the economy, unemployment and restoring faith in Italy's discredited political institutions as well as trying to turn Europe away from austerity to focus more on growth and investment. An inconclusive general election in...
06:35 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Rome: Italian centre-left politician Enrico Letta said on Saturday he had won support of other parties to form a coalition government that will include one of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's closest allies as deputy prime minister. Letta met President Giorgio Napolitano after talks with Berlusconi and leaders of his centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party to confirm that he had reached an accord which would clear the way for...
11:10 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will decide on Friday on a plea by the Italian government challenging a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the killing of two Indians by two Italian marines off the Kerala coast. The hearing which was scheduled for Thursday was deferred to Friday because the court wanted Attorney General Goolam Essaji Vahanvati to be present. The Italian government and the marines had also questioned the...
06:11 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Rome: Italian politician Enrico Letta received a mandate to form a new government from President Giorgio Napolitano, an official at the Quirinale Palace announced on Wednesday. Letta, the nephew of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's long-time chief of staff Gianni Letta and deputy leader of the Democratic Party, is considered a moderate acceptable to the centre-right. His appointment was announced by Donato Marra, head of Napolitano's secretariat. ...
06:05 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Sydney: Veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was recalled to the Australian squad on Wednesday and made vice-captain for their upcoming Ashes tour to England with Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris also making the grade. Haddin, who has only played one Test in the past 14 months and turns 35 next week, replaces Shane Watson as Michael Clarke's deputy in a 16-man squad for the five-Test series starting in England in July....
08:39 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will decide on Monday on a plea by the Italian government challenging a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the killing of two Indians by two Italian marines off the Kerala coast. The Italian government and the marines had also questioned the invoking of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms on Continental Shelf Act, 2002 in the case...
09:19 AM, Apr 22, 2013
"Superman" is returning to the big screen in June and we have got the first full length trailer of his latest adventure, 'Man of Steel!', starring Russell Crowe, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams. ...
06:05 PM, Apr 19, 2013
He is back. As the iconic comic book superhero Superman turns 75, director Zack Snyder gets ready to release his new film 'Man Of Steel'. Co- produced by Christopher Nolan, the film has actor Henry Cavill playing 'Superman' and also features Amy Adams,Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner in prominent roles. The film will be released on June 14, 2013. Here's the trailer, have a look! ...
10:33 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Caracas: Ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro narrowly won Venezuela's presidential election on Sunday, the electoral authority said, allowing him to continue the socialist policies of the late president Hugo Chavez. The National Electoral Council said Maduro won 50.7 per cent of the votes, compared to 49.1 per cent for his young rival, Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles. It said more than 99 per cent of the votes had been counted...
10:29 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Caracas: Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution would be put to test on Sunday when the country goes to polls to elect a new president. Chavez's chosen successor will compete against a younger rival who promises change in the nation that Chavez polarized. Most opinion polls give his protege, acting President Nicolas Maduro, a strong lead over opposition challenger Henrique Capriles thanks to Chavez's endorsement and the surge of...
09:28 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Dubai: Iran said on Tuesday operations had begun at two uranium mines and a milling plant and that Western opposition would not slow its nuclear work, days after talks with world powers made no breakthrough. Marking its annual National Nuclear Technology Day, Iran also said it would continue to need higher-grade enriched uranium - the part of its atomic activity that most worries the West - to fuel additional research...
07:35 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy informed the state Assembly on Monday that India would go to any length to see that the two Italian marines were brought back to stand trial for killing two Indian fishermen. ...
01:16 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 per cent literacy rate, has achieved another distinction of having the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country at just 0.53 per cent. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Venezuela's acting president urged US leader Barack Obama to stop what he called a plot by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to kill his opposition rival and trigger a coup before an April 14, 2013, election. ...
12:10 AM, Mar 18, 2013
