Le Touquet, France: India made little work of France here in the second friendly hockey Test, beating the hosts 4-0 to sweep the two-match series. But as the Indian men's hockey team leaves France to cross the border into Spain for a triangular series before the Olympics, coach Michael Nobbs expects his side to not relent and up their scoring rate leading up to the London Games. Nobbs termed the...
07:19 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Lille: Indian hockey team's preparations for next month's Olympic Games began on a confident note with a 8-2 route of France in the first of the two friendly matches here on Thursday. India led 3-2 at the half-time after the home side had taken an early lead. SK Uthappa scored the equaliser with a field goal while Sandeep Singh's penalty corner strike gave India a 2-1 lead. Gurvinder Singh Chandi...
10:01 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Lille: India kicked off their pre-Olympic European tour with a thumping 8-2 win over France on Thursday, and though coach Michael Nobbs was upset with the performance of his boys in the first half, overall he was satisfied considering the team was still acclimatising to the conditions. "Well, this was our first game and it was to acclimatise to [the] European conditions. We had two debutants, [Pradhan] Somanna and Nitin...
05:44 PM, Jun 29, 2012
India ended a three-match losing streak against Great Britain by beating them 3-1 at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Sunday to secure a bronze medal, which is exactly the kind of boost Michael Nobbs's men needed ahead of the Olympics in July-August. India went into the match having lost to the Britons thrice - twice at the London Olympics test event and once in the league phase...
05:28 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: India Inc appears to be gearing up for a new-look leadership team in the new financial year, as at least 22 companies announced changes in their various top positions on Monday " the first working day of the current fiscal 2012-13. The changes mostly relate to various director-level positions, while new appointments have been made for top posts like Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Managing Directors (MDs) as...
05:08 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: They constantly interrupted each other to get in an urgent quip and often finished each other's sentences with perfectly timed guffaws. More than once they threatened to take over the interview as I tried to get in a word. They ignored me, of course. Note to self. When you are talking to two of India's most promising stand-up comics, Gursimran Khamba and Tanmay Bhat, you run the risk...
11:27 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Vadodara: A section of bank employees has decided to observe one-day nationwide strike on February 28 in support of their various demands. All-India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), which claims five lakh membership, has given the strike call. "We are opposed to the implementation of Khandelwal Committee recommendations and other reform measures like outsourcing of regular bank jobs. We are also demanding stringent measures to recover bad loans in banks," CH...
09:43 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Five lakh bank employees under the banner of AIBEA will extend support to the strike by central trade unions on February 28 protesting the "anti-labour and anti-worker" policies of the government, a top functionary of the All India Bank Employees Association said on Saturday. All the central trade unions (BMS, INTUC, HMS, CITU,AIUTUC, TUCC, and UTUC) would strike work on that day, CH Venkatachalam, General Secretary of the All...
11:13 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: The bank accounts of national career Air India were on Thursday frozen for not paying service tax. The bank accounts were frozen by the Central Board of Excise and Customs for non payment of service tax amounting up to Rs 25 crore. However, Air India has claimed that negotiations are on to sort out the issue. This is the second time in two months that Central Board of...
10:27 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the richter scale shook north-east India on Monday morning. The epicentre was on the Myanmar-India border region. It was recorded at 8.46 hrs and was felt across the north region of the country. The epicentre was located at 24.947N, 95.226E in Myanmar, about 130 km east of Manipur capital Imphal, the website of US Geological Survey said. Seven northeastern states - Assam, Meghalaya,...
09:14 AM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: The US on Monday said it had concerns over India's business environment, cautioning that the policies designed to protect the domestic industry would eventually harm them. "We encourage India to address concerns that many have about its business environment. In particular, there is increasing concern about some recent action that seems to tilt the playing field," US Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez said at a CII...
10:40 PM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Army's proposal for a Mountain Strike Corps to add depth to its defence in Arunachal Pradesh is expected to reach the Cabinet Committee on Security soon, sources said on Wednesday. The new Corps will add one lakh men to the existing force structure and cost more than Rs 60,000 crore. Once passed by the committee, its budgetary clearance is likely to be done next April when...
01:25 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Washington: Top Indian and American business leaders will meet in Washington next week at a key conclave to deepen bilateral economic and trade ties. The two-day meeting will take stock of the US-India commercial relationship, calibrate a fresh course for progress, and accelerate the partnership's path of prosperity, benefitting both countries for decades to come, Washington-based US India Business Council (USIBC) said in a statement. The Union Minister of Commerce...
08:20 PM, Jun 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian government has reacted strongly to a study published in the Lancet Journal for Infectious Diseases that tracks the NDM1-superbug to water samples in Delhi. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday chaired a high level meeting and reiterated there is no cause for concern and yet has now been forced to set up a six month study of their own. The study has been making the...
08:42 PM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: Tamil Maiyyam, an NGO closely associated with DMK MP and Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, raided by the CBI in December last year in connection with the 2G scam, received donations from various telecom companies that won 2G licenses. CNN-IBN has accessed the audited balance sheets of Tamil Maiyyam which reveal direct payments by telecom operators to the NGO, especially in 2007 and 2008. That was the period when the...
08:07 PM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation moved up to 8.62 per cent in September, from 8.51 per cent in the previous month, because of rise in prices of certain food and non-food items. The inflation was at 8.51 per cent in August. For July, the figure has been revised upwards to 10.31 per cent from the provisional number of 9.97 per cent. This is the second consecutive month when the overall...
04:03 PM, Oct 15, 2010
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07:34 AM, Apr 22, 2010
Not just the Opposition, ally Mamata Banerjee is upset as well over the hike. ...
12:06 PM, Feb 27, 2010
The entire opposition joined hands to condemn the Union Budget 2010. ...
03:22 PM, Feb 26, 2010
