Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Alappuzha: The SNDP Yogam has decided to withdraw the petition filed before the Supreme Court against the decision of the state government to implement 10 per cent reservation for the economically backward belonging to the upward communities in the state. SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has said that the Yogam has also decided to withdraw the impleading petition filed before the Supreme Court. The Jamaat Council had filed petitions...
01:30 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Dubai: An Indian cab driver scooped a USD 245,028 prized Lamborghini Gallardo in a lucky draw at a local shopping mall in Abu Dhabi. Soupi Abdulla's prized car was plucked out from nearly a quarter of a million entries in a local mall's shop-and-win draw in Al Ain in Abu Dhabi, The National newspaper reported. To be eligible for the draw, shoppers had to spend more than USD 68 at...
06:03 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the two-day mayhem across half of India caused by the Northern and Eastern Grid collapse, four northern states and the national capital were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid yet again on Wednesday. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Delhi were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid, the northern regional load dispact centre data showed. Punjab had overdrawn power by 800 MW till 3 pm. The Northern Grid...
03:13 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the two-day mayhem across half of India owing to the grid collapse, Punjab was overdrawing power from the Northern Grid yet again on Wednesday. Till 1 pm, the state had overdrawn by 500 MW. The Northern Grid and the Eastern Grid collapsed on Tuesday triggering the worst ever power crisis in the country. The Centre blamed Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan for the collapse saying they...
01:30 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Haryana has said that the Centre did not warn the states to draw less power if the output from grids was less. ...
11:52 AM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Half a million tickets for Olympic soccer matches have been withdrawn and stadium capacities reduced due to a lack of take-up, Games organisers said on Tuesday. Organisers will reduce capacities across venues by closing tiers of stadiums or whole sections of a ground. Even after the reduction, 250,000 soccer tickets are still available with a further 200,000 set to be put up for sale before the Games begin on...
09:08 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after the petrol price hike, the Kerala government at a special cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to forgo the sales tax on petrol, reducing its price by Rs 1.63 per litre. "This will cost the exchequer Rs 218 crore," Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters here. "I have also written to the prime minister, UPA chairperson and petroleum minister, saying that the hike will affect the people...
06:28 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose by $1.46 billion to $294.60 billion for the week ended April 20, official data showed. Forex reserves had risen by $213.8 million to $293.14 billion in the previous week. Foreign currency assets, the biggest component of the forex reserves kitty, rose by $1.45 billion to $260.21 billion during the week under review, according to the weekly statistical supplement of the Reserve Bank of...
01:57 AM, Apr 29, 2012
London: Brazil, Spain, Britain and Mexico have been chosen as seeded teams for the men's Olympic soccer tournament and will be kept apart at Tuesday's group-stages draw. The draw will separate European and Latin American teams. In the 12-team women's draw, Olympic champions United States, world champions Japan and Britain are the seeded teams and will be kept apart in the four groups. Hosts Britain, with a men's team at...
12:50 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Nyon: Athletic Bilbao were rewarded for eliminating Manchester United in the Europa League by being drawn on Friday to play Schalke in the quarter-finals. "It was a fiesta for us," Bilbao secretary Javier Aldazabal said of the Basque club's impressive 2-1 win on Thursday, following a 3-2 upset of the English champions at Old Trafford. "To be in the European last-eight, it's a surprise but we are enjoying it." Atletico...
12:39 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Indian Wells, California: Rafael Nadal outlasted David Nalbandian 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the BNP Paribas Open on Friday, setting up a semi-final against Roger Federer that will be a rematch of their Australian Open semi-final. Federer had an easier time in his quarter-final, beating Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-2 in just more than an hour for his fourth victory over the Argentine this year. Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka defeated Angelique...
10:41 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Nyon, Switzerland: Barcelona and Real Madrid were kept apart in the Champions League quarter-finals and semi-finals draw on Friday, though the defending champions must first beat AC Milan before the Spanish giants can hope to meet in a potentially stellar final. Barcelona will travel for the first leg against seven-time winners Milan, in a quarter-finals clash that reunites the two European powers after they met in the group stages. Madrid,...
04:58 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Indian Wells: Australian Open winners Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek saw off a stiff resistance from Juan Monaco and Kei Nishikori to advance to the quarter-finals of the ATP Indian Wells Masters on Tuesday. The seventh-seeded Indo-Czech pair scored a tough 7-6(5), 6-4 win in the second round over their unseeded opponents. They will now fight it out with the giant-killing Spanish pair of Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal for...
01:40 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Dubai: Sania Mirza squandered a one-set lead to crash out of the qualifying event of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, losing the first round match to Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak. Sania won the first set comfortably but lost steam as the match progressed to lose 6-2, 3-6, 2-6 in the opening round of the USD 2,000,000 hard court event. The Indian will now hope to do well in the doubles...
06:31 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Washington: Instead of diving into a "pseudo" reconciliation process to justify an early pullout of troops from Afghanistan, Obama Administration must pay attention on the fact that Taliban will use any negotiations to strengthen their hold in the country, an eminent US expert has said. The building blocks for genuine peace and stability in Afghanistan are simply not yet in place, said Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation. "The recent...
08:28 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Washington: The US is planning to end its combat operations in Afghanistan by mid 2013 and would switch to a "train-and-assist" role, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said. Last June, Obama ordered all 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by the middle of 2012. "Hopefully, by mid- to the latter part of 2013, we'll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advice and...
09:25 AM, Feb 02, 2012
London: Crawley Town, the lowest-ranked side left in this season's FA Cup, were handed a meeting with Premier League club Stoke City in Sunday's fifth-round draw. While third-tier side Stevenage will host eight-time champions Tottenham in the last-16, Crawley of League Two will host last season's beaten finalists on the weekend of February 18-19. Crawley beat League Championship clubs Hull and Bristol City in the last two rounds. "This is...
10:56 AM, Jan 30, 2012
London: Arsenal scored three times in eight second-half minutes on Sunday to recover a 2-0 deficit and reach the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, keeping their attempt to end a seven-year trophy drought on track. Villa led 2-0 at half-time through goals by Richard Dunne and Darren Bent, prompting near silence from the home fans for long periods. But a revitalized Arsenal...
11:38 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Indian shuttlers had a disappointing start to their campaign in the Korea Super Series, with all the three qualifiers suffering contrasting defeats in Seoul on Tuesday. Anand Pawar notched up a win against Singapore's Zi Liang Derek Wong but succumbed to a defeat in the second qualification round to Sung Min Park of Korea to crash out of the tournament. Pawar beat Wong 21-19 21-14 in 36 minutes,...
06:45 PM, Jan 03, 2012
