Hyderabad: TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday asserted that his party would only accept formation of separate Telangana as a solution to the long-pending statehood issue in Andhra Pradesh. "No other proposal would be acceptable to us. Telangana people would reject any other proposal," he said in Hyderabad. His reaction came amid reports that the Centre would soon come up with a solution to the contentious Telangana issue. Union...
01:23 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Washington: A group of major American business organisations and advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a new alliance against what they allege as India's "discriminatory" economic policies, including intellectual property issues, which they claim hurt US jobs and economy. Co-chaired by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC), the Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) was launched in Washington ahead...
01:02 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: BJP Parliamentary Board on Tuesday appointed former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi as leader of the party in the Legislative Council and Nand Kishore Yadav as the head of the party in the state Assembly. Yadav will be the Leader of the Opposition in state Assembly as BJP is now the main opposition after JD(U) snapped ties with it. He was the Road and Highways minister...
12:42 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Tuticorin: A 70-year old was injured when a country bomb was hurled at him allegedly by six persons, including four of his nephews, over a property dispute at Sathankulam in this district on Tuesday, police said. Victim Chellappa was owning 15 acres of land. His sister's son Ponpandi had been demanding that the land be given to him. He was riding a bicycle on Tuesday morning when Ponpandi, his three...
12:26 AM, Jun 19, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the middle of a controversy yet again. She lost her cool yet again and went to the extent of saying that the Barasat gangrape and murder accused are CPM workers and those protesting are CPM cadre. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 18, 2013
London: Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson. In Tuesday's editions, The London Evening Standard newspaper quoted him as saying that he had approached police to discuss the incident after seeking legal advice. "Although Nigella made no complaint I volunteered to go to Charing Cross (police) station and...
11:58 PM, Jun 18, 2013
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11:55 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Uttarakhand continues to face nature's fury with torrential monsoon rains ravaging large parts of the state. At least 58 people have died and nearly 72,000 are still stranded across Uttarakhand with the holy town of Kedarnath being the worst hit. Sources in the state government claim that death toll in Kedarnath could be high as relief and rescue efforts have started in full swing. ...
11:50 PM, Jun 18, 2013
After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fined ICICI, HDFC and Axis banks for flouting customer norms, highlighted by a Cobrapost expose, the latest sting operation by the online magazine exposes how some employees in two foreign banks in India have also been involved in accepting black money and agreeing to launder it. ...
11:32 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl was on Tuesday allegedly molested by her coaching center teacher in Ashok Nagar area of north 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. According to the reports, the teacher asked the girl to stay back as she needed special attention and allegedly molested her. After the incident, aggravated locals ransacked the coaching centre. The accused has been arrested. ...
11:30 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Paris: The trial of French football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema over claims they paid for sex with an underage call girl was adjourned for procedural reasons on Tuesday until 2014. Benzema, a Real Madrid striker, and Ribery, a Bayern Munich winger, are to be tried on charges of paying Zahia Dehar, a prostitute-turned-fashion muse, for sex in 2008 and 2009, when she was only 16, then 17 years...
11:19 PM, Jun 18, 2013
London: Australia's chairman of selectors has told England now is not the time to dismiss his side's chances of regaining the Ashes, despite the controversy currently engulfing the tourists. Title-holders Australia's early exit from the Champions Trophy tournament in the UK, which included a defeat by arch-rivals England, was compounded when David Warner was suspended until next month' first Test for a bar-room attack on home batsman Joe Root and...
11:17 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bridgetown (Barbados): West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been forced to withdraw from the first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) because of his contractual obligations with English county team Derbyshire. Organisers say Chanderpaul signed a contract with CPL, offering himself for selection but later realised that his commitment to Derbyshire provided for release only if it pertained to West Indies duty, reports CMC. "I am extremely sorry that...
10:53 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhopal: It is not easy to tell a complaint by listening to the sound of a bike. The fact that you have to identify the complaint without having a look would make it difficult for most of us, isn't it? Well, not for Munne Blind of Bhopal, whose name is synonymous with the Enfield motorcycles in Bhopal. As his name suggest, Munne is visually impaired since 1972. The fact that...
10:45 PM, Jun 18, 2013
The meeting coming just days after RSS brokered a fragile truce between an aggrieved Advani and the pro-Modi group within the BJP. ...
10:42 PM, Jun 18, 2013
London: India have strengthened their number one position on the ICC ODI Championship Table as they have added two more rating points to their kitty with an unbeaten run in the group stage of the Champions Trophy. India had entered the tournament on 119 ratings points and have moved to 121, thanks to victories over South Africa, West Indies and Pakistan. England are now ranked second after moving up two...
10:26 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Uttarakhand continues to face nature's fury with torrential monsoon rains ravaging large parts of the state. At least 58 people have died and nearly 72,000 are still stranded across Uttarakhand with the holy town of Kedarnath being the worst hit. Sources in the state government claim that death toll in Kedarnath could be high as relief and rescue efforts have started in full swing. ...
10:10 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: A high level meeting between Defence Secretary, National Disaster Response Force and other agencies has been convened to expedite the relief process after 58 people died in Uttarakhand following heavy rains that have caused massive landslides and floods in the state, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth told CNN-IBN. "We are going to take Indian Air Force's help to evacuate people from all corners of the state," Singh said. "We...
10:03 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fined ICICI, HDFC and Axis banks for flouting customer norms, highlighted by a Cobrapost expose, the latest sting operation by the online magazine exposes how some employees in two foreign banks in India have also been involved in accepting black money and agreeing to launder it. HSBC and Standard Chartered officers have been caught in a Cobrapost sting operation, offering to...
10:00 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Belfast: Rising Australia fast bowling hope Pat Cummins is to make an unusual return to action from injury by playing for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy in Belfast on Wednesday. The 20-year-old will play against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) before switching side two days later to play against Ireland Under-19s, who are preparing for their Under-19 World Cup qualifiers in the Netherlands in August. Cummins's participation in the two matches...
09:50 PM, Jun 18, 2013
