Mumbai: The rupee on Friday weakened further by 10 paise to 55.69 against the dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange due to appreciation of the US currency overseas. Dealers attributed the rupee's fall to dollar gains against other currencies overseas but a higher opening of the domestic equity market capped rupee's losses to some extent. The rupee had lost 13 paise to close at a fresh six-month...
10:18 AM, May 24, 2013
Melbourne: India's under-19 cricket team will play a triangular series against Australia and New Zealand starting June 30 in Darwin. "Cricket Australia on Friday announced more international cricket will be heading to the Top End, with the Northern Territory set to host an Under-19 International Series between Australia, India and New Zealand, beginning June 30," CA said in a statement. Marrara Oval, Gardens Oval and Tracy Village will be host...
09:56 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Investigation into the IPL spot-fixing scandal continues to shock the cricketing world with Mumbai Police sources now telling CNN-IBN that Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of the BCCI chief N Srinivasan, has been placing bets on IPL matches since 2011. According to sources, Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh - arrested in the spot-fixing case - has revealed that Meiyappan started with bets of Rs. 10 lakh that went up to...
09:53 AM, May 24, 2013
Srinagar: Four Indian Army personnel were killed on Friday in an ongoing encounter in Tral area of south Kashmir. The encounter began after the security personnel got a tip-off about the terrorists. Sources said at least 3-4 terrorists may be involved in the gun battle. One suspected terrorist has been shot dead while one Army personnel in injured. An Army spokesman said the troops had launched an anti-insurgency operation in...
09:52 AM, May 24, 2013
Mumbai: Benchmark indices closed firm, riding a late surge, but finished roughly 3 per cent lower week-on-week. Brokers say the mood is cautious after the global sell-off on Thursday, and back home, a mixed bag of quarterly earnings. The Sensex closed at 19704, up 30 points over the previous close, after touching a low of 19568.49 earlier in the day. The Nifty ended 16.50 points higher at 5983.55. Tata Power,...
09:37 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: 11.53 pm: Mumbai Crime Branch arrests Gurunath Meiyappan after questioning. He will be produced in court in the mandated 24 hours. Himanshu Roy, Jt CP, Crime, said, "We find his involvement in the offence. He will now be arrested. He will be produced before a magistrate within 24 hours." 11.27 pm: Mumbai Police claims Meiyappan is being evasive during questioning. 10.30 pm: Sources say Mumbai Police will likely...
09:26 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has made it clear that no foreign player is involved in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal. "No foreign player's name has come up in our investigation," Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. He said 12 bookies and three players - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - have been arrested so far in the case. The custody of former Ranji player Manish Gudheva...
09:08 AM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: From being a newspaper delivery boy to making news himself, 23-year-old Shivakumar has got through to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Calcutta. Shivakumar, an engineering student and the only educated member in his family, has fought hard to make his dreams come true. For the past ten years, N Shivakumar's day has started at the crack of dawn, sorting newspapers and heading out to deliver them in...
08:49 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Mercury levels continued to rise across North India, with the national capital registering a record breaking 45.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, the hottest in a decade for the month of May. Amritsar in Punjab faced its hottest day in three decades with a maximum of 48 degrees Celsius. In Rajasthan, Sri Ganganagar continued to be the hottest place with a maximum of 48.6 degrees Celsius, followed by Churu,...
07:44 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will pay a three-day visit to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia starting from Friday, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom's Nitaqat work policy, regional and international issues would be discussed. As many as 56,700 Indians face deportation from Saudi Arabia in the next one-and-half months and ten officials have been dispatched to the...
06:15 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 56,700 Indians face deportation from Saudi Arabia in the next one-and-half months and ten officials have been dispatched to the kingdom to help the Indian mission prepare emergency certificates for their exit, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday. "As of now, 56,700 Indians have registered with the Indian mission for getting exit permits as they have no valid passports or other travel documents,"...
05:05 AM, May 24, 2013
Gurgaon: With the CBI probing alleged kickbacks in the VVIP chopper deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asserted that his government will continue to seek the highest standards of probity in defence deals. The Prime Minister, who laid foundation of the Indian National Defence University in Gurgaon, said the government has paid close attention to sound defence acquisition policies and reformed them to ensure that the armed forces have...
04:45 AM, May 24, 2013
Washington: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan on Thursday scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America's second highest court. Described as "trailblazer" by US President Barack Obama, Chandigarh-born Srinivasan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimously approved by the Senate with 97 voting in favour. With Senate confirmation, 46-year-old Srinivasan has become the first Indian-American to be appointed...
03:26 AM, May 24, 2013
Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao went against the suggestion of a majority of external members of the central bank's monetary policy committee that recommended no change in the policy repo rate at a May 3 policy meeting, according to minutes of the meeting seen by Reuters. The RBI cut the key policy repo rate for a third straight time in 2013 to 7.25 per cent, pulling...
02:26 AM, May 24, 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
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
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
Kolkata: Mumbai Indians's explosive batsman Dwayne Smith on Thursday lamented that he has squandered many a good starts but vowed to make it count against Rajasthan Royals in the IPL Qualifier 2 on Friday. "Yes, it's frustrating. I've got a five or six starts, three fifties but did not carry on by getting out to careless shots," Smith said of his 28-ball 68 against Chennai Super Kings in the previous...
08:35 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: As the investigations into spot-fixing scandal continue, the man under intense focus is 67-year-old Narayanaswami Srinivasan. Through a stream of controversies over his tenure, Srinivasan's position as BCCI chief has never been under threat until now. So has time finally run out for the BCCI strongman? Srinivasan took over as president of the BCCI from Shashank Manohar in September 2011. As a secretary of the board over the...
08:12 PM, May 23, 2013
