Doha: Ace marksman Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Imran Hassan Khan grabbed an Olympic quota each on the final day of the Asian Shooting Championships on Saturday, ending India's long wait for a London Games berth in the competition in Doha. Manavjit dished out a vintage performance in testing conditions to win gold as well as an Olympic quota for India in trap event while Khan gave the country a London...
07:25 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The row between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Unique ID project has intensified. With both the Planning Commission, which is backing Nilekani, and the Home Ministry staking claim to carry out the multi-crore project, the matter has now reached the PMO. At stake is several thousand crores of the tax payers money. Who should enrol citizens for an identity card? Both the Planning Commission...
09:15 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The row between UIDAI Chairperson Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Unique Identification (UID) project has intensified. The Home Ministry has written to the Cabinet Secretary, seeking a clear cut direction on who will do the enrollment. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the note. In the note, the Home Secretary has stated that the UID data is not reliable as anyone can get themselves...
09:14 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: He likes to keep a low-profile but India's hockey coach Michael Nobbs isn't leaving anything to chance when it comes to bringing the magic back to Indian hockey, starting with qualification for the London Olympics. Speaking to IBNLive.com on the sidelines of India's preparatory camp for the Test series against South Africa and the Olympics qualifiers, Nobbs touched upon the most debatable topics of India hockey - ranging...
05:31 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Washington: A new video game has gotten its hooks into Brian Kealer, a 26-year-old San Francisco software engineer. He's not killing birds or using his vocabulary to impress his friends. No, Kealer is after real prizes, like the iPad2 he just scored. And he's playing with his bank account. At least once every day, Kealer signs into SaveUp.com, a new financial website, and does some financial activity that wins him...
12:02 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Lucknow: The election process got underway in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday with the notification for the first phase of Assembly polls, which will be a litmus test for Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma and National Commission for Scheduled Caste Chairman PL Punia. In the first phase, 55 constituencies spread over 10 districts - Sitapur, Gonda, Basti, Bahraich, Balrampur Barabanki, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Siddharth Nagar and Shravasti are going on polls...
12:14 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Chandigarh: The process of elections to the Punjab assembly officially began Thursday with Governor Shivraj Patil issuing the notification under the Representation of the People Act for the Jan 30 polls for 117 assembly seats. With the notification now issued, those who want to contest can file their nominations, a spokesperson of the election office said here on Thursday. The last date for filing of nominations is Jan 12 and...
06:26 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Srinagar: The Unique Identification (UID) project in Jammu and Kashmir has entered a limbo after one of the vendors, Wipro, refused to carry out the project. CM Omar Abdullah meanwhile has pleaded ignorance of the issue. Wipro Technologies, apparently in a letter to the Omar Abdullah government, said that it had had enough of its flip flops. It clearly stated in the letter that it would not be able to...
07:49 AM, Jan 02, 2012
A 17-year-old Deepika Kumari shone with some outstanding performances as the women's recurve team emerged as strong contenders for an elusive Olympic medal in archery, during a year that was witness to the dramatic fall of the fancied men's team. Stunning world champions Korea in the semi-finals of the biennial World Championships, the trio of Deepika, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro not only grabbed the full quota berths for...
06:20 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Directorate of Film Festivals today said that the process for inviting entries for the 59th National Film Awards 2011 for all categories has been set in motion. The awards will have three Sections - Feature Films, Non-Feature Films and Best Writing on Cinema, officials said. In case of feature films, there are 30 different awards including the award for Best Feature Film, Indira Gandhi Award for Best...
07:51 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Washington: Fear of divorce deters live-in couples from marriage, especially its social, legal, emotional and economic ramifications, says a new US study. Demographers Sharon Sassler, professor of policy analysis and management, and Dela Kusi-Appouh, doctoral student in development sociology, both at Cornell University, conducted the study. Roughly 67 percent of the study respondents shared their worries about divorce. However, middle-class subjects spoke more favourably about tying the knot and viewed...
12:04 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok was on Friday given a clean chit by Lokayukta police before a court in a case pertaining to alleged misuse of office in land denotification. The Lokayukta police submitted a report to Lokayukta Judge N Sundhindra Rao, exonerating the minister of the charge into which it had ordered a probe, based on a complaint by an RTI activist. Lokayukta police submitted that it was...
06:33 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Bangalore: Spelling fresh trouble for former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Lokayukta police on Saturday filed an FIR against him, Housing Minister V Somanna and two others, alleging irregularities in denotification of land. "An FIR has been filed against Yeddyurappa and Somanna, mainly under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and also for misappropriation, breach of criminal trust and forging documents," City Lokayukta Superintendent of Police Shivashankar said....
09:47 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court on Thursday posted for orders on November 28 a petition moved by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa seeking anticipatory bail in a complaint filed against him and his family members relating to alleged irregularities in denotification of land. When the matter came up, Justice H Billappa, who was to pronounce the order on Thursday, posted it to next Monday observing that the main order was yet...
07:24 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has finally entered Bellary to campaign for the BJP party candidate in a high voltage by-poll. Sulking Yeddyurappa had boycotted all party programmes after his release from Bangalore central jail in a denotification scam. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Yeddyurappa said he was is not against the BJP. He maintained that he is the reason why BJP came in to power in Karnataka. "No....
12:02 PM, Nov 22, 2011
It is a face-off between Chidambaram and Nilekani over who has the powers to do the biometric data of Indians. ...
10:49 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the biometric census done by the Unique Identification project does not pass security criteria. CNN-IBN has accessed Chidambaram and the Registrar General's letters red flagging the biometric data collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Chidambaram has demanded that the biometric issue should be taken up immediately by the Cabinet committee on UID. "The possibility of fake identity profile...
08:07 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: A Karnataka Lokayukta Court will hear the first of two cases against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his family on Wednesday in the illegal denotification of government land case. The Lokayukta police had submitted an investigative report earlier this month. Yeddyurappa and five others including his sons and son-in-law have been accused of irregularities in denotifying government land in Bangalore. Earlier, Yeddyurappa hit out at the...
11:16 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Bangalore: Twenty five days after being sent to jail, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa was finally released on bail on Tuesday evening after the Karnataka High Court granted him bail in the second land de-notification case as well. "I am 100 per cent confident that I have not done any mistake," said Yeddyurappa after coming out of the jail. But the relief for the BJP leader could be short-lived....
11:23 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has walked out of the jail after being granted bail by the High Court on Tuesday in the land denotification case. Speaking on his release, Yeddyurappa said, "I thank the people of Karnataka. I have complete faith in judiciary." However, the former chief minister said he did not want to comment on any individual. Yeddyurappa was allowed to walk free on the condition...
11:42 AM, Nov 08, 2011
