Sao Paulo: Aiming for a win that has so far been elusive, world champion Viswanathan Anand will lock horns with an out-of-form Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fourth round of the fifth Final Masters here. With the business end of the tournament at Bilbao still more than a week away, Anand will be hoping for a positive result against Karjakin which may help him reach closer to the top...
12:43 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: Actor-politician Shatrugan Sinha, who underwent bypass surgery on Monday, is recovering and has been shifted to a private room from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He was operated upon July 16 at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. "Mr. Sinha is doing well. He is recovering. He has been moved from ICU to room yesterday (Thursday). He is fine now," Ram Narain, COO Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, told IANS. The...
04:58 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha underwent bypass surgery at a city hospital on Monday and will continue to stay there for a few days. The 66-year-old actor-turned-politician had been admitted to Kokilaben hospital in suburban Andheri on July 2 after he complained of breathlessness due to some paint work at his residence. "He was admitted to hospital for severe breathlessness. During investigations blockages were discovered in the...
01:12 PM, Jul 18, 2012
We have not heard of SJ Suryah ever since his last film, Pawan Kalyan's 'Komaram Puli', flopped rather miserably and notoriously in the State. However, SJ has been in the news in Tamil Nadu, because he is coming back with 'Isai', where he is playing the lead role himself. SJ had dreamt of remaking 'Komaram Puli' in Tamil, reprise Pawan's role himself, and score a super hit. His dream got...
11:57 AM, Jun 21, 2012
That S J Suryah is making a comeback with a film titled 'Isai' is known to everyone. The latest update about the project is that four prominent directors would play crucial roles in it. One of them is veteran Telugu director K Vishwanath. While scenes on him have already been shot, Suryah is busy zeroing in on the remaining three filmmakers. 'Isai', interestingly, also marks the debut of Suryah as...
08:48 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Lucknow: Varanasi's famous Kashi Vishwanath temple will be given a major facelift and the salaries of the priests will be increased, the Uttar Pradesh government announced on Tuesday. After a meeting of the temple trust, Religious Endowments Minister Anand Singh said that other than making provisions for booking online 'darshan' of the deity, fibre glass roofs will also be installed at places where devotees stand in long queues to have...
10:02 PM, Jun 19, 2012
KSCA has opened a cricket academy with state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide best facilities to youngsters. ...
02:16 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Viswanathan Anand has done it yet again. With his nail-biting victory over Boris Gelfand, Anand has proved that he is one of the greatest chess ...
06:18 PM, May 31, 2012
Moscow: World champion Viswanthan Anand played his fourth draw in the World Chess Championship against Boris Gelfand of Israel as the deadlock continued in the prestigious contest in Moscow on Tuesday. Playing black for the second time in the match, Anand continued his faith in the Slav defence and yet again did not have much difficulty equalising. It was a continuation of the discussion in the second game of the...
09:49 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament may be in a state of paralysis these days, but it has not deterred the authorities from taking a digital leap of faith. Aiming to make its office paperless and the members tech-savvy, the Lok Sabha secretariat has sanctioned Rs 50,000 for each member to buy an iPad. "We are encouraging MPs to use iPads. This would save a lot of paper," Lok Sabha Secretary General TK...
08:37 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Pune: The social security cell (SSC) of Pune police have arrested 52-year-Marathi actress of yesteryears for her involvement in a prostitution racket run at a row house in Orchid Palace society on NIBM road, Kondhwa. The actress was identified as Padmaja Vishwanath Bapat has been booked under several sections of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, along with two other women aged 28 and 30 who have been arrested in...
12:47 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Thrissur: A Thrissur fast track court awarded capital punishment to the Soumya rape and murder case accused Govindachami. On Monday, it had found the accused Govindachami guilty. Soumya was raped in a compartment of Kochi-Shornur passenger train and was pushed out of the moving train in February this year. Special Prosecutor A Suresan had pleaded for the maximum punishment of death. According to the prosecution, Govindachami hailing from Virudhachalam in...
11:13 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: The extension granted to Lok Sabha Secretary General TK Vishwanathan has become controversial with Leader of Opposition and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sushma Swaraj complaining to Speaker Meira Kumra against the move. CNN-IBN has got a copy of the letter in which Sushma Swaraj states that the decision to grant an extension to Vishwanathan was taken without her consent. Swaraj says that only officers from the Lok...
05:01 PM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: India's sporting legends lash out at the organisers, saying only sportsmen and sports lovers should be allowed to run the games. At the end of the day the athletes stand to lose out if the games can not be organised properly, say sportspersons PT Usha and Vishwanathan Anand who have made India proud. "I think sportpeople will bring their empathy and we will have some understanding for what...
09:35 AM, Sep 24, 2010
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11:57 PM, Aug 25, 2010
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India at 9, CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai speaks to a panel of experts on the controversy surrounding the HRD Ministry's failure to give citizenship clearance to Vishwanathan Anand. ...
12:07 AM, Aug 25, 2010
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11:49 PM, Aug 24, 2010
HRD Ministry had failed to give citizenship clearance to chess wizard Vishwanathan Anand to enable him to get an honorary doctorate from a university. ...
10:45 PM, Aug 24, 2010
Vishwanathan Anand retaining the World Chess Championship title told CNN-IBN that the 12th and the final game against Bulgarian Veseline Topalov was the toughest ever.
10:22 AM, May 12, 2010
Ravi Kapoor tries to escape from hospital by throwing chilli powder. ...
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