Madrid: Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise doping test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was at the center of jokes made by a French TV programme about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy it's like this!" The Spanish sports ministry...
06:04 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Madrid: The Spanish tennis federation said it plans to sue a French TV channel for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal. In the video skit on the satirical programme called The Puppets, a life-size cartoon figure of Nadal is shown urinating into a gas tank before racing off and being pulled over by police for speeding. A message of "Spanish athletes. They don't win...
11:45 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Country's biggest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday said it has signed a multi-year, multi-million euro contract with European car rental company Europcar for deployment of IT services in France. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. After a rigorous evaluation process, Europcar's IT subsidiary Eurocar Information Services (EIS) selected TCS to manage strategic IT services development for its French operations, TCS said...
08:47 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Montpellier, France: Tomas Berdych won his seventh career title by defeating defending champion Gael Monfils 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the Open Sud de France final on Sunday. The top-seeded Czech broke for a 5-3 lead in the final set on a double fault from Monfils, clinching victory with his 12th ace. "It was very close in the end. I'm happy that I was able to do it," Berdych told Canal...
12:24 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar has sought French cooperation in technology-related areas where France has a high level of expertise. Kumar brought up the issue during a meeting with French Minister for Higher Education Laurent Wauquiez in Paris on Tuesday. "Geological mapping, water resource management, sub-soil management, health, bio technology, nano material, Information Communication Technology, cloud computing and supercomputing," were areas...
12:53 AM, Feb 05, 2012
Washington: After losing out to the French, the US asserted its F-16 and F-18 fighter jets would have provided India unbeatable platforms with proven technologies, but said it had not offered India more advanced F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF). "We are extremely confident that the F/A-18IN and F-16IN would have provided the Indian Air Force unbeatable platforms with proven technologies at a competitive price," Pentagon spokesperson Cmdr Leslie Hull-Ryde said....
03:05 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said that he welcomed a decision by India's government to enter into "exclusive negotiations" with France's Dassault for the purchase of 126 Rafale jet fighter planes. In a statement, Sarkozy said talks over the contract would begin shortly, adding that the deal would include significant transfers of technology guaranteed by the French state. Dassault Aviation confirmed earlier that its fighter plane had been...
01:29 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Amsterdam: The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public. "People should be able to...
09:52 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Damascus: Arab League monitors said the withdrawal of colleagues by Gulf Arab states would not hinder their work in Syria while France and Britain on Wednesday joined efforts at the United Nations to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule. "The UN Security Council must support the Arab League's courageous decisions which are trying to end the repression and violence in Syria and find a solution to the political crisis," French Foreign...
02:16 AM, Jan 26, 2012
A week after the Costa Concordia struck rock, Italy has declared a formal emergency for the island to helping with the rescue operations. ...
09:32 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Rome: "You go on board! Is that clear? Do you hear me?" the Coast Guard officer shouted as the captain of the grounded Costa Concordia sat safe in a life raft and frantic passengers struggled to escape after the ship rammed into a reef off the Tuscan coast. "It is an order. Don't make any more excuses. You have declared 'Abandon ship.' Now I am in charge." The dramatic recording...
07:09 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Athens: Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine euro zone countries, stripping France and Austria of their coveted triple-A status but not EU paymaster Germany, in a Black Friday the 13th for the troubled single currency area. "Today's rating actions are primarily driven by our assessment that the policy initiatives that have been taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic...
07:45 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday operationalised the change in FDI policy by removing restrictions on foreign investment limit in single-brand retail. "...it has now been decided that FDI up to 100 per cent would be permitted in single-brand product trading under the government route..., the RBI said in a circular. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) had earlier increased the limit of foreign direct...
03:21 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Washington: The UN's rights body has concluded that France had violated the religious freedom of a 76-year-old Sikh man when he was asked to remove his turban for his ID photograph, a US-based Sikh group has said. United Sikh, a Sikh rights body, had filed a communication on behalf of Ranjit Singh to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in December 2008. Singh, despite his ill-health, has had no...
01:13 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Chattarpur: Three persons including a hotel owner were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a French tourist on the new year's eve at the temple city of Khajuraho, near. Sarah Nurjok (21), the French woman, filed complaint with the police on Tuesday, said Khajuraho Police Station in-charge, Mukesh Khamparia. Sarah was celebrating with her Indian friend at a hotel on December 31, when she was allegedly detained by Pranav Singh...
10:48 PM, Jan 04, 2012
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.
