The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on Tuesday seeking a ban on Ranbaxy drugs. The petitioner cited the pharma giant's case in the US where Ranbaxy USA admitted to selling substandard and adulterated drugs. The pharma giant has been asked to pay a fine of 500 million dollars. Ranbaxy has been facing the heat even in India with a few hospitals banning its drugs. Pharmaceutical industry expert Vikas Dandekar...
04:57 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Coming off contrasting wins in their previous matches, West Indies and India will face-off at The Oval hoping to make it to the semi-finals. ...
04:52 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said it will take steps to increase foreign investment flows into the country to strengthen rupee and the regulators will act at appropriate time to contain the fall in domestic currency that touched a record low of 58.96 to a dollar. "We will continue to implement measures to ensure that portfolio investor inflows are enabled and encouraged and some of these measures will...
04:50 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: As the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party battle it out over the coal scam and internal crisis, Third Front leaders are stepping up. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told CNN-IBN that both Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi don't make the prime ministerial cut and that the Third Front's time has come. "Let me make it quite...
03:48 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Congress leader and former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla, who was critically injured in a deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, was declared dead on Tuesday. The 84-year-old Congress veteran had suffered bullet injuries in his abdomen and had been airlifted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon for treatment after the attack. Yatin Mehta, Chairman of Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology in the Medanta Medicity...
03:20 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Melbourne: In an apparent racist attack, an Indian restaurant owner was beaten up and verbally abused by a group of teenagers in Australia's Ballarat near Melbourne. 22-year-old Himanshu Goyal was bashed up and verbally abused while closing his Bridge Mall eatery about 9.30 pm (local time) on Friday when eight teenagers shouted racial abuse at him while another in the group punched him on face. Ballarat Police official Matt Hayes...
03:10 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Jakarta: Defending champion Saina Nehwal survived a scare in her campaign opener as she struggled past Indonesia's Lindaweni Fanetri in an energy-sapping three game thriller at the Indonesia Super Series Premier here Tuesday. World number two Saina had to play out of her skin against the 14th ranked Fanetri, who posed a huge threat to the Indian before surrendering 17-21, 29-27, 13-21 in an hour and 14 minutes in a...
01:52 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian men's squash team dished out a dominating performance to notch up a commanding 3-0 win over Finland and enter the pre-quarters of the World Team Championship in Mulhouse, France. After the tight escape against Argentina, the eighth seed Indian team made the bold choice of bringing in Ramit Tandon in place of Harinder Pal Sandhu. The gamble paid rich dividends as Tandon tamed the dangerous Henrik...
01:32 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Action superstar Jackie Chan, best known for 'Rush Hour' series, 'The Myth' and 'The Karate Kid', is all set to visit India this month as part of the China Film Festival to be held in the capital. Indo China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC), State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and People's Republic of China are jointly organizing the China Film Festival, which will be...
11:15 AM, Jun 11, 2013
London: Indian skipper MS Dhoni on Monday said that his team has always seen West Indian opener Chris Gayle as an impact player, who can take the game away from them or any team single handedly. "The Gayle factor will always be there. He is one of those individuals who has a big impact on the game. It's always good to get him out early. Our fast bowlers will have...
10:19 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: A professor from IIT Delhi, Dr VK Tripathi, has been spreading communal harmony by teaching 400 madrasa teachers Maths and Science over the past seven years. As a teacher at the Madrasa Dar-ul-uloom Rahmania, Maulana Abdul Jabbar dedicates his entire day to the teaching of Urdu, Quran and the Shariah. Now, he and his son attend the workshop by Dr Tripathi in Maths and Physics, specially meant for...
09:50 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday fell by a staggering 298.07 points to close at its lowest level in nearly two months, mainly led by drop in interest rate sensitive stocks as rupee slumped to new lows dashing hopes of a rate cut by RBI next week. Also, Jindal Steel logged the day's biggest loss as Naveen Jindal and the company were named as accused in the fresh FIR...
09:46 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Tokyo: Unchecked global warming may increase the risk of flooding at the end of this century in 42 per cent of the Earth's land surface, including parts of India, Southeast Asia and Africa, a new study has warned. According to a research team led by Yukiko Hirabayashi at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Engineering Innovation, the number of people exposed to the risk of flooding would increase from the...
01:43 AM, Jun 11, 2013
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11:58 PM, Jun 10, 2013
The resignation of BJP patriarch LK Advani has left the party stunned. BJP leader Ananth Kumar, who has gone to meet party President Rajnath Singh, has said the party won't accept Advani's resignation. Sources say senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj is expected to meet Advani. The resignation of BJP patriarch LK Advani has left the party stunned. BJP leader Ananth Kumar, who has gone to meet party President Rajnath Singh, ...
11:56 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Pune: Air India upset reigning champions Punjab 6-2 to lift the third Hockey India Senior Men's National Championship, which concluded at the Dhyanchand Stadium in Pimpri, Pune on Monday. Air India played to a plan using short passes to completely dominate the proceedings. Sameer Dad made no mistake to put Air India ahead just two minutes into the game on a pass from Joga Singh. Affan Yusuf made it 2-0...
10:49 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: West Indies team management is banking on quality feedback from its Indian Premier League stars ahead of their Group B clash against India in the ICC Champions Trophy in London on Tuesday. West Indies coach Ottis Gibson said the IPL stars are expected to provide "intelligence" on the Indian players in their team meeting as he admitted that the Twenty20 league inputs will play a crucial factor for the...
10:28 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Indian cricket board interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya Monday promised to look into Mahendra Singh Dhoni's alleged conflict of interest after the team returns from the Champions Trophy being held in England and Wales. "I don't want to disturb the team during the Champions Trophy. I gain nothing by doing that. We have taken a note of the (Dhoni) issue, we are looking into it but we are not...
09:43 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: AirAsia India moved a step closer to securing permission to launch operations in the country, with Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Monday saying that all issues concerning the carrier's application had been resolved. "All matters on AirAsia India have been resolved. The proposal has been sent to the Union Home Ministry for security clearance," Singh told visiting Indian journalists here. "Once the Home Ministry nod comes, Civil Aviation...
09:23 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: West Indies wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin was Monday suspended for two ODIs and also fined 100 per cent of his match fee after he was found guilty of conduct contrary to the spirit of the game in an ICC hearing. The decision means that Ramdin will miss Tuesday's Champions Trophy clash against India and June 14 fixture against South Africa. Ramdin was charged with wrongly claiming a catch of Pakistan...
08:06 PM, Jun 10, 2013
