London: Riding on the back of its "impeccable" non-proliferation record, India aims to get full membership of the four elite multilateral export control regimes that monitor the global movement of atomic material and equipment. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has underlined that India has in place strict and effective controls over export of sensitive items in line with the best international standards, and that New Delhi has expressed interest in joining...
06:55 PM, Jun 28, 2011
London: Briton Andy Murray withstood an athletic onslaught from Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to beat the Frenchman 3-6 7-6 6-4 and win the final of the Queen's Club championships on Monday. The climax of the Wimbledon warm-up event was being held a day late after rain washed out play on Sunday and while conditions stayed dry, Murray weathered the storm of Tsonga's fast ground-strokes, diving volleys and energetic charges. Tsonga's high-risk strategy...
08:12 PM, Jun 13, 2011
London: Heavy rain washed out the final of the Queen's Club grasscourt championships on Sunday with Briton Andy Murray and Frenchman Jo-Wilfred Tsonga now scheduled to clash on Monday. Organisers had hoped to squeeze in the match before the expected weather front arrived, re-scheduling the final for mid-day, but the rain started early and hardly relented. Play was officially called off just before 1800 local time. World number four Murray,...
08:37 AM, Jun 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Press Club of India on Sunday condemned the killing of Mumbai Mid-Day's journalist J Dey and asked Maharashtra government to order an inquiry into the incident. "Dey had made a mark for himself and left an indelible impression through his incisive and investigative stories in whatever media organizations he had worked", a PCI statement said in New Delhi. "The Press Club of India demands from Maharashtra government...
08:37 PM, Jun 11, 2011
London: Home favourite Andy Murray thrashed American Andy Roddick 6-3 6-1 in a grass court masterclass to reach the final of the Queen's Club championships on Saturday. World number four Murray was in dazzling form in a one-sided contest that was all over inside an hour. In the second semi-final wildcard James Ward, the world number 216, will try to set up an all-British final when he takes on fifth...
08:18 PM, Jun 11, 2011
London: Rafael Nadal's batteries finally ran flat on Friday as the weary world number one bowed out to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarter-finals of the Queen's Club grasscourt championships. The Spanish world number one, preparing to defend his Wimbledon title this month, went down 6-7, 6-4, 6-1 when the exertions of winning a record-equalling sixth French Open crown on Sunday caught up with him. In the other half of the...
01:28 PM, Jun 11, 2011
London: Rafael Nadal suffered a late blip against unseeded Czech Radek Stepanek before reaching the quarter-finals of the Queen's Club championships on Thursday after Andy Murray and Andy Roddick both cruised through. The world number one, fresh from his record-equalling sixth French Open title, looked in total command against Stepanek as he served for the match in the second set but a rare collapse kept the Spaniard on court for...
10:57 PM, Jun 09, 2011
London: Just three days after winning the French Open for a sixth time, Rafael Nadal began his preparations for Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden in his opening match at Queen's Club on Wednesday. The top-seeded Spaniard was never at his best but broke in the opening game of each set to beat his 168th-ranked opponent comfortably and move into the third round. While Novak...
12:38 AM, Jun 09, 2011
London: Sam Querrey began the defence of his Queen's Club title on Monday by defeating Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 6-4. The American broke to lead 2-0 in the first set and then saved seven break points in the next game. In the second set, Nishikori saved three break points at 1-1 but hit a forehand volley long to lose his serve in the ninth game. "Felt pretty good," said...
08:57 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: A hardened drug dealer falls hard for a moody painter, a police officer fights his inner demons and the grisly killing of a 16-year-old by his friends. If you did not know what the super rich in Mumbai do in their own time, you will, after the release of experimental filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's dark thriller 'Shaitan'. The film that revolves around the lives of five Mumbai youngsters is...
12:04 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian group urging wives to avoid marital problems by fulfilling their husbands' sexual desires like prostitutes has angered politicians and women's rights groups, the New Straits Times reported on Sunday. The Obedient Wives Club, which was set up by a group of Muslim women, said domestic violence, infidelity and prostitution stemmed from a lack of belief in God and a failure of women to satisfy their husbands....
10:48 AM, Jun 06, 2011
London: Hugh Hefner opens a new Playboy club in London's swanky Mayfair district on Saturday after an absence of 30 years, and the imminent return of the "bunny girls" has some feminist groups and commentators hopping mad. The 85-year-old entrepreneur is in London to launch the new venue, where life membership costs 15,000 pounds ($ 25,000) and a single "Sazerac" cocktail will set a member back a cool 2,000 pounds....
01:49 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New York: Former Telecom Minister A Raja, at the centre of the 2G spectrum allocation scam, has earned the dubious distinction of figuring in the list of Time Magazine's "an ignominious club of privileged leaders who stepped too far". The 2G scam is ranked No 2 in the list of scandals and scams in the all-time Top 10 Abuses of Power, only next to ex-American President Richard Nixon's 'Plumbers', a...
04:39 PM, May 19, 2011
Here's a sneak peek at 'The Bang Bang Club', which was premiered at the Toronto International film festival and is scheduled to release soon. ...
04:08 PM, May 09, 2011
Augusta: It was not a happy debut at the Masters for Arjun Atwal, only the second Indian to play at the fabled Augusta National Club, as he ended at tied 97th with a eight-over 80 after the opening round. Atwal had a disappointing second nine during which he had three double bogeys. Overall, the Indian, who is one of the closest friends of Tiger Woods, with whom he played the...
11:33 AM, Apr 08, 2011
Bikramjit gets you the best food from Kolkata, the city where he not only grew up but also got his passion of food from. ...
07:46 PM, Mar 20, 2011
New Delhi: The crime branch of the Delhi Police is probing the role of the officials of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in granting fake pilot licenses. BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who is also a qualified pilot, says the DGCA must probe how pilots with phoney degrees were allowed to fly. As witnessed by investigations, it all started with the Rajasthan flying club, where the anti-corruption...
12:30 PM, Mar 15, 2011
New York: Health clubs, aware that the fitness needs of boomers, people in their 30s and 40s and youths differ, will be offering more age-appropriate workouts in the new year. Group exercise classes, both traditional and novel, will continue their upswing in 2011, as will personal training, sports-specific workouts and wellness programing, according to IHRSA (International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association), the global fitness trade organization. "Clubs are being very...
07:01 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Spaniards spend a lot of time in bars, and will probably spend less time now. ...
04:20 PM, Jan 03, 2011
