The National Commission for Minorities on Thursday slammed the CBI for putting "innocents in jail over serious crimes as terror acts". ...
11:51 PM, May 23, 2013
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11:38 PM, May 23, 2013
Monaco: Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli warned teams on Thursday that they will quit the sport at the end of the season if a new contract from 2014 is not agreed soon. Motorsport director Paul Hembery did not hide his impatience when he told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix that time was running out for the Italian company to design and test tyres suitable for radically different 2014 regulations....
11:24 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved the reconstitution of Medical Council of India (MCI) with former Director General Health Services RK Srivastava replacing KK Talwar as Chairman of the Council's Board of Governors. "The formal notification in respect of the MCI reconstitution would be issued tomorrow by the Health Ministry," a top Ministry official told PTI. The new seven-member board to run the apex medical regulator, approved by Health...
11:24 PM, May 23, 2013
Ranchi: A policeman has accused Independent MLA Chamra Linda of assaulting him at the Jharkhand Assembly while he was on duty. On the basis of the complaint by the constable Umanath Saha, police filed an FIR with the Jagannathpur police station in Ranchi on Thursday. According to the FIR, Linda on Wednesday night allegedly got infuriated and "beat up" the policeman on duty near the gates when the latter asked...
11:03 PM, May 23, 2013
London is in shock after a British soldier was beheaded by two armed men outside military barracks in Woolwich. ...
11:02 PM, May 23, 2013
BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan has been summoned by the Mumbai Police for interrogation in the IPL 6 betting case. ...
10:58 PM, May 23, 2013
Virginia Water: World number two Rory McIlroy was blown off course by unseasonally cold weather at Wentworth on Thursday, bogeying five of the last six holes to sink to a two-over 74 in the PGA Championship first round. The 24-year-old Northern Irishman made an encouraging start to the European Tour's flagship event and was three-under after 12 holes but a series of late blunders meant he walked off the 18th...
10:55 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Thursday opposed scrapping of the provision which requires the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek government's permission for probing bureaucrats in corruption cases. The DoPT raised the issue during a power-point presentation at the maiden meeting of the Group of Minister headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram which discussed the issue of giving greater autonomy and more financial powers...
10:44 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police on Thursday served a notice to Chennai Super Kings team owner and BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, asking him to appear before it for questioning by 5.00 pm on Friday. The police claimed they needed to probe a substantial number of calls made by arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh to Meiyappan and bookie Ramesh Vyas. All through Thursday, even as dramatic scenes...
10:40 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police on Thursday served a notice to Chennai Super Kings team owner and BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, asking him to appear before it for questioning by 5.00 pm on Friday. The police claimed they needed to probe a substantial number of calls made by arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh to Meiyappan and bookie Ramesh Vyas. All through Thursday, even as dramatic scenes...
10:40 PM, May 23, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday regretted that successive governments at the Centre neglected the importance of yoga, which is gaining prominence in the world. "Yoga was intentionally neglected by Britishers while they were ruling the country as they feared that through yoga India will become powerful in the world," Modi said inaugurating the Lakulish Yoga University. "But even after Independence, we didn't come out of the slave...
10:12 PM, May 23, 2013
Karan Thapar discusses the question with a panel of experts. ...
10:11 PM, May 23, 2013
Asad Rauf was withdrawn from the Champions Trophy after reports that he was being probed by the Mumbai Police amidst the IPL spot-fixing case. ...
10:06 PM, May 23, 2013
Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar, who is down with a wrist injury, Thursday sweated out at the Mumbai Indians net session though he remains a doubtful starter for the second IPL qualifier against Rajasthan Royals here on Friday. His team-mate Dwayne Smith said the senior India batsman has been recovering well from the left wrist injury he sustained last week. The injury kept him out for two league games as well as...
10:05 PM, May 23, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan cricket head coach Dav Whatmore does not believe that the Test drubbing his team got in South Africa early this year will impact their performance in next month's ICC Champions Trophy in UK. Pakistan were whitewashed in the three-match series with no Test going into the fifth day and since Whatmore took over as coach in March last year, the team has not been able to win any...
10:02 PM, May 23, 2013
Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan on Thursday sought time till Monday to appear before Mumbai Police for questioning in connection with the IPL betting scandal, police said. Sources in the crime branch, probing the racket, said the request from Meiyappan for allowing him to appear on Monday was received on Thursday evening, hours after he was issued summons. "The request is under consideration," a crime branch source said...
09:57 PM, May 23, 2013
Mumbai: Chief Administrative Officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Ratnakar Shetty, on Thursday told CNN-IBN that the board will help Mumbai police in giving any documents and any footage that will help the inquiry in spot-fixing matter. "We had sought an appointment with Himanshu Roy (Mumbai Joint CP, Crime) to hand over a letter from the BCCI as the Supreme Court has said that the...
09:36 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Faced with the Supreme Court rap on the independent functioning of CBI, the Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday discussed ways to give greater autonomy and more financial powers to the agency. The GoM, at its first meeting, was given a power-point presentation by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in which it opposed scrapping of the provision which requires CBI to...
09:24 PM, May 23, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Police on Thursday claimed to have busted two IPL betting rackets with the arrest of 13 people in separate raids in Hyderabad and Nellore. Saroornagar police raided an apartment in Tirumala Nagar in Hyderabad on Wednesday night and arrested seven persons. The police team seized four laptops, 18 cellphones, a TV set, betting slips and Rs 19,600 in cash, DCP C Ravi Varma said. The seven men...
09:16 PM, May 23, 2013
