Kolkata: Mumbai Indians received the maximum hits, while Kolkata Knight Riders were the least "popular" among the top four IPL teams, a survey by internet search engine giant Google claimed today. In a survey among the four teams for the last seven days, 'Google Insights for search' registered maximum number of 'hits' by Mumbai Indians followed by the two-time defending champions Chennai Super Kings. Delhi Daredevils were the third in...
11:58 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, is unlikely to take oath in this session of Parliament. The session ends early this week whereas, the Indian Premier League (IPL) Season 5, in which Tendulkar is playing for the Mumbai Indians, ends on May 27. The Delhi High Court had last week issued a notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging Tendulkar's Rajya Sabha...
09:58 PM, May 20, 2012
London: Scotland Yard on Friday charged four Indian citizens and two Ghana citizens of Indian-origin all based in London for allegedly trafficking a woman from Hyderabad for sex. Official sources confirmed that four of the suspects were Indian citizens while two were Ghana citizens of Indian-origin. The six suspects include a computer professional, an optician, a butcher, a supermarket manager and a secretary, they said. The four Indians are "...
10:18 PM, May 18, 2012
London: Keen to attract students from India, China and other countries, a leading Italian university has decided to teach its courses exclusively in the English language, signifying a major shift in Italy's higher education sector. Amidst increasing global competition in the higher education sector, top officials of the Politecnico di Milano, established in 1863, believe that if it retains Italian as its language of instruction, it risked isolation and will...
06:55 PM, May 17, 2012
Hyderabad/Ahmedabad: The 1,200 Indian workers stranded in Angola are not keen on coming back home despite the government making arrangements for their return, Minister for Overseas Affairs Vyalar Ravi informed Parliament about it on Wednesday. With dreams of a better future for his family, Vijay Valmiki of Petlad in Gujarat, left for Angola to work in the electrical division of a cement factory. He got the job through a Vadodara-based...
09:21 AM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Victory turned sour for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner, Shah Rukh Khan, on Wednesday who is likely to be banned by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) from entering the Wankhede Stadium for life following an alleged altercation he had with the security and the officials of the association. The incident occurred outside the Wankhede Stadium late on Wednesday night. The MCA officials alleged that the actor got drunk...
07:06 AM, May 17, 2012
Rome: Several hundred demonstrators made their way through the centre of Rome on Saturday in support of two Italian marines being held in a prison in India awaiting trail. The two men, Salvatore Girone and Massilimiano Latorre, are accused of shooting and killing two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates. They were providing security aboard an Italian oil tanker. Forty marines from the San Marco Battalion came to Rome to...
11:46 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: US citizen of Indian origin Pradeep K Khosla, the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's engineering college, has been named as the 8th chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. Khosla, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur's electrical engineering department, will replace Marye Anne Fox in August 2012. "UC San Diego has a bright future ahead, especially with Pradeep Khosla at the helm as the eighth chancellor of this extraordinary...
12:30 PM, May 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Italian government on Tuesday signed a one crore compensation deal with families of the two fishermen shot dead by Italian marines. The two families have now withdrawn all petitions against the Italian crew. But crucially, the criminal case against the Italian marines filed by the Kerala government is still very much on. Pinku was one of the two fishermen shot dead allegedly by Italian marines off the Kerala...
10:33 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Italian government on Friday approached the Supreme Court seeking the release of its two navy personnel who were arrested by the Kerala police for the killing of two Indian fishermen. Sources said that they have pleaded that the FIR against the marines should quashed. Italy on Friday reportedly offered Rs 1 crore as compensation to the families of the two fishermen who were killed in February this...
11:27 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Harbhajan Singh picked an argument with the on-field umpires during Mumbai Indians' match against Deccan Chargers. ...
11:23 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Mumbai Indians take on Pune Warriors in an IPL 5 match in Mumbai on Friday, with Harbhajan Singh leading the hosts and Sourav Ganguly taking charge of Pune in the absence of Yuvraj Singh. ...
10:02 AM, Apr 06, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron governments drive to cut migration, which may put-off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years here after the completion...
07:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday ordered release of Italian ship Enrica Lexie, detained off Kochi port for over a month in connection with the gunning down of two Indian fishermen allegedly by marines aboard the vessel. Allowing the plea of ship owners Dolphin Tankers, Justice P S Gopinathan directed the state government and police to release the ship, subject to the owners executing a Rs 3 crore bond...
06:49 PM, Mar 29, 2012
CHENNAI: In yet another instance of violence involving the north Indian community in the city, two youth from Bihar, studying in a private university on OMR, were held on charges of assault and brandishing a gun at a cook at their house in Neelangarai. A special police team raided the house where Pradhosh Pandey (20) and Sekar Anand (20) stayed along with a group of students in Vettuvangeni on the...
09:13 AM, Mar 23, 2012
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