Los Angeles: TV host and socialite Kim Kardashian's divorce proceedings have reportedly taken another odd turn. Her ex-husband is ready to avoid the trial if she apologises to him. If the 32-year-old American socialite, who is pregnant with Kanye West's baby, apologises to Brooklyn Nets player Kris Humphries at a settlement conference in a Los Angeles court, he would give her a divorce without seeking an annulment on grounds of...
05:48 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Washington: Expressing concern over the imprisonment of the Pakistani doctor who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden, US Secretary of State John Kerry said it is wrong and angers all, but US-Pak relationship can't be determined by few things. "Dr Afridi's in jail, he shouldn't be, et cetera. We have said that. We will fight that. And it's wrong, and it angers all of us. But I don't think you...
04:54 AM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday did not take up for consideration the much-anticipated proposal to establish a new mechanism giving a say to the government in appointment of judges to the higher judiciary. The Cabinet was expected to take up the proposal that envisages replacing the present collegium system, under which judges alone decide the appointments to the higher judiciary, in its meeting on Thursday but decided to...
10:43 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Thursday dismissed reports suggesting that social media will influence at least 160 Lok Sabha constituencies out of 543 during the next general elections. Information & Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari and IT and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said voting preferences in a complex country like India is decided on issues and considerations more than anything else. "I tend to disagree with the suggestion that social media...
07:30 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal United continue to lock horns, the Cabinet is on Thursday likely to announce a special package for Bihar. In what is being seen as the government wooing the JD(U), the Cabinet could give a go ahead for a Rs 12,000 crore special package. Bihar will get this money under the Backward Regions Grant Fund to be implemented in the...
03:12 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: In what could result in another stand-off between the government and the judiciary, the UPA cabinet is likely to take up proposals for a revamp in the way judges are appointed. The Law Ministry wants judges to be appointed by a Judicial Appointments Commission, which includes members of the executive. The Law Ministry says judges cannot be allowed to decided their own appointments. Currently, a collegium of judges...
09:34 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Manchester: Manchester United's charge to the Premier League title was slightly delayed on Wednesday after being forced to twice come from behind to draw 2-2 at West Ham. With second-place Manchester City beating Wigan 1-0, United's advantage over their neighbour was reduced to 13 points with five games to go for the leaders. Antonio Valencia scored his first goal in a year to first pull United level by canceling out...
02:17 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Accusing BJP leaders of tarnishing image of Rajasthan, Congress on Wednesday said the opposition leaders' statements reflected their "frustration". PCC president Dr Chandrabhan said that the BJP leaders in Suraj Sankap Yatra were making statement to hurt the image of the state which, he said, was on development path due to better financial management by the Congress government. "The BJP leaders are making such statements which are not in...
01:42 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The government reportedly wants to have a greater say in the appointment of judges. A Cabinet note circulated by the Law Ministry proposed to scrap the present collegium system by replacing it with a Judicial Appointments Commission headed by the Chief Justice of India with the Law Minister as a representative of the government. The proposed Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) will be a six-member body headed by the...
06:51 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: Advertising and digital media agency Focus Group today launched a social networking website 'Worldoo', aimed at children aged between 6-12 years. "Worldoo will offer a platform to kids to live, express and play. They will have access to educational content and games from the likes of Cartoon Network, ZeeQ, National Geographic, Warner Bros and Shemaroo, so that they can learn and enjoy themselves, while staying safe on the Internet,"...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Ahmedabad: There is trouble for former Gujarat Women and Child Development Minister Maya Kodnani as the Special Investigation Team probing the 2002 riots will move the Gujarat High Court seeking death for her in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. The approval for this was given by the legal department of the Gujarat government. The SIT also wants death for Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and eight others convicted. 97 persons...
08:21 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: State Bank of India plans to raise $500-$600 million worth of offshore external commercial borrowings in three to four months time, a senior executive said on Tuesday. India's largest lender priced a five-year, $1 billion bond issue with a coupon of 3.25 per cent last week, generating interest of more than four times the bond size, said Hemant Contractor, managing director of international business. ...
01:35 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: US investigators led by the FBI are poring over video and photographs from the widely watched Boston Marathon for clues to determine who is responsible for two bombs that exploded near the finish line on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 100, officials said. Because the Boston Marathon is run by 27,000 people and some 500,000 come to watch every year, officials expect plenty of visual evidence...
11:05 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Indore: A special CBI court on Monday rejected the bail plea of two accused in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Saquib Ali `Danger' and Tabish Khan, the alleged shooters accused of executing the murder in 2011, were refused bail by Judge Anupam Srivastava. The accused had filed the bail applications in December 2012 and the court completed hearing the arguments on them by defence lawyer and CBI prosecutor...
12:35 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Hazaribagh: Seven officers, undergoing training at the Police Training Centre of Padma in Hazaribagh district, were suspended for allegedly attempting to molest women passengers on a bus, police said on Monday. The seven accused were suspended by Superintendent of Police (Padma) Madan Mohan Lall after the bus passengers handed them over to the police on Sunday following the incident, Officer-in-charge of the Ichak Police Station Ravi Shankar Singh told reporters...
12:14 AM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Admi Party member and lawyer Prashant Bhushan has moved the Supreme Court seeking an investigation into the coal scam by the Special Investigation Team (SIT). In his plea to the Supreme Court, Bhushan has also asked the court to look into the allegations of governmental interference in the ongoing Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe. This comes at a time when lawyer ML Sharma has, in a...
02:39 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: An animated doodle of geometric shapes and mathematical calculations on a paper strip adorns the Google home page to commemorate Leonhard Euler's 306th birth anniversary. The Swiss mathematician and physicist was born on born April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland and is one of the founders of pure mathematics. Leonhard Euler's major contributions were in the fields of geometry, calculus, mechanics and number theory. His works also extended...
06:42 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) on Sunday hailed the appointment of Mumbai's Cardinal Oswald Gracias by Pope Francis as one of his advisors in the Vatican. Cardinal Gracias, 68, was among the eight high-ranking advisors appointed on Saturday by the new Pope to an advisory council to look into ways of reforming the Vatican bureaucracy. CSF, a Mumbai-based Catholic NGO, said: "There could be no better person than Cardinal...
05:27 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Lucknow: Three persons, arrested in connection with the killing of Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haq, were on Sunday remanded in judicial custody till April 28, 2013. However, the fourth accused in the case Yogendra alias Babloo Yadav, who is said to be juvenile, would be produced before the juvenile justice board on Monday. The accused, including slain village head Nanhe Yadav's brothers Pawan and Phoolchandra, son Babloo and private security...
02:48 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Barcelona: Deportivo La Coruna rolled to a 4-0 victory at Levante to provisionally escape the Spanish league's relegation zone for the first time in 18 weeks after their fourth consecutive win on Saturday. Also, Malaga forward Julio Baptista struck in injury time to grab a 1-0 win over visiting Osasuna four days after the Costa del Sol side was eliminated from the Champions League quarter-finals. Sergio Garcia's last-gasp equalizer secured...
10:25 AM, Apr 14, 2013
