Manchester: Manchester United won their 20th league title on Monday when a Robin van Persie hat-trick led them to 3-0 victory over Aston Villa and gave them an unassailable 16-point lead over last season's Premier League champions Manchester City. Van Persie's goals after two, 13 and 33 minutes - the second among the best scored at Old Trafford - propelled Alex Ferguson's side to victory in front of a jubilant...
02:43 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Paradip/Bhubaneswar: Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project resumed in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Monday after being suspended for about two-and-a-half months. The restarting of the demolition of betel vines at Gobindpur village at the proposed plant site near Paradip coincided with Posco-India CMD YW Yoon meeting Development Commissioner JK Mohapatra at the state secretariat in Bhubaneswar. Though Yoon described the meeting as a courtesy call, sources...
12:24 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Boston: US investigators on Monday started grilling the lone surviving Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspect after he regained consciousness and was able to scribble out written responses, as authorities were preparing a chargesheet to nail the accused. Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources were quoted by...
09:53 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Boston: As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing on Sunday, the city's police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat. After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early on...
06:20 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Makhachkala:If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling Russian city at the heart of an Islamist insurgency in 2012, neighbours say he hid it well. The ethnic Chechen killed in a shootout with US police last week spent at least a month last summer helping his father renovate his first-floor apartment next door to a dentistry in Makhachkala, a city in the...
01:45 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Stuttgart: Germany came from behind to beat Serbia 3-2 in their Fed Cup playoff Sunday and qualify for next season's top-tier World group competition. Sabine Lisicki and Anna-Lena Groenefeld clinched the best-of-five series by winning the decisive doubles 6-2, 6-4 against Vesna Dolonc and Aleksandra Krunic. Mona Barthel began the comeback by defeating Bojana Jovanovski to pull Germany level at 2-2. Barthel had to win to keep Germany in the...
12:54 AM, Apr 22, 2013
London: Undaunted by the Boston Marathon bombings, big crowds lined the route of London's mass road race on Sunday to cheer on around 36,000 runners, many of whom wore black ribbons to remember the dead and wounded. Hundreds of extra police were deployed to secure the first race in the World Marathon Majors since two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday killed three people and...
05:07 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Boston: One of the two Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects, who was arrested after a massive manhunt, partied with his friends, tweeted rap lyrics and lived a normal college life after the deadly attack. Nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent an apparently normal day on Wednesday at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he was a sophomore, according to a school official, working out in the gym, then sleeping in his dorm room....
04:02 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Boston: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011 had interviewed one of the two Boston bombings suspects, who was killed after a massive manhunt, but apparently let him out of their sights after not detecting any terrorist activity. Agents in 2011 interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of being behind the deadly bombings in Boston that claimed three lives and injured over 180, at the request of a foreign government that...
03:53 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Manchester United, who are on the verge of getting their 20th premier league title, are looking confident to acheive it easily. Manchester United can 'smell the finishing line' in the title race and deserve to be ranked among the great champions if they finish the job against Aston Villa, said Alex Ferguson, according to a report in Dailymail. "We have a group of players that are determined and committed. There...
02:22 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Washington: As US authorities prepared to question the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings to find out the motive for the terror attack they may face an unexpected problem, according to a media report. Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, who was captured after a massive manhunt, "has suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk," possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him, CNN reported citing...
12:38 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The father of the two suspects in the Boston bombings has reiterated that his sons are innocent and did not carry out the attacks. He is now planning to go to America to fight for his children. ...
09:14 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Boston: The two Boston Marathon bombing suspects had at least six bombs -- three of which exploded, handguns and a rifle when police officers first confronted them in a dark residential street in Watertown, a Boston suburb, police said on Saturday. "A single officer was the first to encounter the two cars that Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev were driving, just before 1 am on Friday," Watertown police chief Edward Deveau...
03:56 AM, Apr 21, 2013
It has been more than couple of years that Mollywood has witnessed a ghost thriller. And so after a very long time 'Oru Yakshy Kadha' written and directed by film maker Nandhan Menon is on the roll to scare thae audience. Kuldeep, who made debut in a Malayalam movie titled '24 Hours' will be seen again in a lead, in a romantic role in this movie while Navya Narayanan and...
11:25 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Moscow: Claiming that his sons were "victims of provocation", the father of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings wants to travel to the US and seek justice. Anzor Tsarnaev, a resident of the republic of Dagestan, maintained that his sons are not criminals but "victims of provocation" despite all the reports from the US authorities, Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti reported. "I don't know where my son...
09:32 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: As details about the suspects in the Boston bombings case emerged, a lot of confusion was created on Twitter when a few users mistook Chechnya to the Czech Republic. The two suspects - Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev - were described by family and law enforcement as "brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya". But while posting information about the Tsarnaev brothers on Twitter, many users linked them to the...
11:53 AM, Apr 20, 2013
London: Manchester City's grip on the Premier League trophy could be prised away once and for all this weekend as Roberto Mancini's side face Tottenham Hotspur knowing defeat would allow Manchester United the chance to be crowned champions on Monday. A sense of inevitability has hung over the title race for several weeks but below it, the season is reaching a nerve-jangling climax both in the battle to qualify for...
10:22 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: Police officers and firefighters stood grim-faced with guns and rifles, lining the street leading to the suburban property where a suspect in twin bombings at the Boston Marathon was believed to be holed up. Reporters and spectators lined up on the other side. The mood was tense, with the few neighbours who ventured out hugging and crying as they heard bangs. Others merely looked on curiously. Then, one officer...
09:48 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Watertown: The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says his younger son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a "true angel". He said his son was studying medicine and was an "intelligent boy". "We expected him to come on holidays here," said Anzor Tsarnaev in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala. Dzhokhar was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was...
09:14 AM, Apr 20, 2013
