Ten Indian athletes have gone to London to participate in the Paralympic Games which is scheduled to begin from Wednesday. Here is the complete schedule of the events they are participating in and also the timings of the events. 30th August - Farman Basha in the (-48kg) powerlifting at 7:30 p.m. - Sharath Gaekwad in the 100m Butterfly-S8 at 2:50 p.m. The finals of the same are at 10:50 p.m....
07:37 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Commonwealth games gold medalist Morad Ali Khan is changing careers from shooting to movies. Moraad has released the first look of 'Khwaabb', a film about the dreams of Indian sportspersons. ...
08:44 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: A special court is likely to take cognisance of the CBI's chargesheet in the 2010 Commonwealth Games Queen Baton Relay case. Former organising committee members TS Darbari, Sanjay Mahendroo and M Jaychandran have been accused of financial irregularities. The scam-hit Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is currently facing 45 legal cases filed by private companies seeking outstanding payment for their CWG-related work. ...
08:52 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Rovio Mobile, makers of the popular mobile game - Angry Birds, is all set to take the birds to the next level. Rovio has released a brand new campaign for its Angry Birds Space installment. The Angry Birds Space will now feature new missions which carry on the fight between the birds and the green pigs who have hijacked the Curiosity Mars rover and are using it to...
03:11 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed one more FIR against former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi in its ongoing Commonwealth Games probe. The latest FIR has been filed in connection with the event knowledge system deal. An IAS officer from Maharashtra cadre has also been named in it. Earlier, the CBI in its first chargesheet in the case against Kalmadi and 10 others described him...
07:38 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Officials of 2010 Commonwealth Games organising committee had allegedly misused the name of Indian High Commission in the UK to award the contract of work related to Queen's Baton Relay, an event in the run up to the Games, to an accused firm owned by a London- based businessman. CBI, which had filed the chargesheet in connection with the QBR case, alleged work of hiring of transportation was...
10:12 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: To bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google on Sunday has come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the doodle and the ceremony that wraps up the so-far spectacularly successful London Games. 1. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day...
11:53 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Mumbai: Festive gambling is no more a safe bet following commissioner of police Arup Patnaik asking his troops to be more alert for such activities in the month of Shravan. The results have started showing. On Saturday, Borivli police arrested 13 people " including nine women " for gambling. However, people from certain communities have expressed their displeasure with such an order and the subsequent actions. Detractors have said that...
09:25 AM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google is going to come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics, on Sunday. It is the seventeenth doodle by Google during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day of the world's biggest sporting...
05:31 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: After posting four interactive Olympic doodles is a row, Google is again back to static. The London 2012 rhythmic gymnastics doodle posted by Google on Saturday is a non-interactive doodle, and does not let you play and score. The doodle has a gymnast with her ribbon that swirls to form the two Os of the Google logo. Today's doodle is the sixteenth doodle posted by Google during the...
11:37 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: If your wrists are aching from all the canoeing on Thursday, Google has a new game for you to play that is not as taxing on your wrists. You can play the London 2012 football doodle using either the keyboard or the mouse or even a combination of both. Adding a fourth sport to its armchair Olympics, Google takes you to the the football field, where you as...
06:22 PM, Aug 09, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc will allow users in Britain to wager real money on its service, opening its doors to gambling for the first time as revenue growth slows at the world's No 1 social network. On Tuesday, Gamesys, an independent gaming company, launched a version of online Bingo for Facebook users in Britain who are at least 18, and which the company said will pay winners real money. Gamesys...
03:49 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google has added yet another discipline to its armchair Olympics - basketball. After putting up the interactive London 2012 hurdle doodle on Tuesday, Google has come up with yet another interactive doodle - London 2012 basketball - that lets users score points playing basketball on their computers. This is the thirteenth doodle, and the second interactive doodle, posted by Google during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. The interactive...
06:00 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Sleep deprived, rain-soaked and unpaid, London's army of Olympic volunteers - officially known as "games makers" - are surprisingly upbeat, and have won admiration for their work shepherding thousands of fans around sports venues. "We're the pulse of the park, the heart of the Games," volunteers Emma Ward, a sports teacher, and Hannah Page, an administrator, cheered in unison at east London's packed Olympic site on Sunday. Like other...
01:45 PM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Michael Phelps, showing no signs of complacency after breaking every imaginable record in Olympic swimming, won the men's 100 metres butterfly gold medal at the London Games on Friday. On the eve of his retirement, Phelps provided an unforgettable reminder of his incredible talent and determination when he came from seventh at the turn to overpower his rivals and win in a time of 51.21 seconds. South Africa's Chad...
12:45 AM, Aug 04, 2012
London: The London Games organizers on Monday apologised to the Indian contingent over the issue of an unidentified woman gatecrashing into the team's march past at the Opening Ceremony. Angry at the "mystery" woman's presence among them during the opening gala, the Indian contingent had shot off a letter to the Games organizers LOCOG who have now apologised over the incident. "We have received a letter from the London Games...
09:01 PM, Jul 30, 2012
London: All the way from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner, Hollywood has always been all a-quiver about Robin Hood and his trusty bow and arrow. Now the heroine of a science fiction romp has made archery a cool sport again. Thanks to The Hunger Games, teenagers are queuing up to try their hand and, with the huge media hype, the Olympics are helping to bring archery out of the shadows...
05:22 PM, Jul 30, 2012
I've been in the throes of my third novel Sita's Curse and hence more or less cut off from the civilized world, preferring to live ...
12:06 PM, Jul 30, 2012
